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Annotate a book12/28/2022 ![]() A critical or explanatory note a commentary ( American Heritage Dictionary, s.v.The act or process of furnishing critical commentary or explanatory notes.Here’s a formal dictionary definition of annotate from the American Heritage Dictionary: I still regularly annotate books, and thought I might save others some time by explaining how and why I annotate. Once I started teaching, I glossed with colored pencils in order to make finding a particular passage or note easier while lecturing and leading discussions. I resorted to making careful glosses using a fine point orange-body Bic Pen (my favorite tool for annotating books for decades).Īs I read more texts in Middle and Old English and Celtic languages in graduate school, I used marginal notes to help me find particular passages, and glossed difficult words and concepts that weren’t otherwise explained by the text. There were no notes on the page they were all appendices at the back of the book. The Robinson Chaucer, while an admirable scholarly text, was not student friendly. I successfully avoided annotating books until my senior year as an undergraduate English major, when I first took my first Chaucer class in Middle English. At the time, I rejected the very thought of annotating books it just felt wrong. Once I started college I was expected to write in books, to annotate books, to know how and what to annotate. ![]() In high school, I’d go through my textbooks at the start of the new school year and carefully the penciled scribbles and doodles left by previous students. Annotations don’t have to make sense to anyone elseĪs a child, I was horrified by people who wrote in books. ![]()
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