Thursday, February 28, 2013

Olivares_AnnotationWorkshop_02/28/13


1) The process for consuming the text for me is to read it and take notes as I go through on Google docs. The reason for this is because there is a lot of information and since I have to summarize it later, it is good to be jotting down notes, quotations, unusual words, and key phrases for later. This also helps me keep a map of where in the text something was said so that I can go back if needed. If this text was more in a story format, genre, I wouldn’t need to use this technique, but because of its nature, no matter the interesting information, I will get bored and drift off if not concentrating fully.

2) I briefly looked up on a slide show about how to annotate a piece. It gave me some useful and non useful information. Connecting the text to myself, the text, and the world was useful. Looking for the plot of a character’s actions wasn’t that helpful.

3) This text helped me because it connected with the text we read in class last time about genre theory. For example, the author of the text I read made reference to the fact that defining genres is difficult because they are dynamic, changing, and a social communication tool.

No comments:

Post a Comment