When I came into this class, I felt like I had a decent way of annotating text. I took AP Language and Composition in high school and we constantly worked with text that we were expected to annotate. When reading material that has been assigned for English 110, I tend to use the same skills I used in high school. One way that this has changed however, is that I tend to make more notes about what the text means and even what it relates to. Gilroy states, “Mark up the margins of your text with words and phrases:ideas that occur to you, notes about things that seem important to you”(Gilroy, paragraph 1). I find myself thinking in the exact same way that Gilroy is explaining. Looking back at the text I’ve read in this class, the margins are filled with notes that I thought of while reading the text. The notes include how I feel about what the author said, if a sentence relates to an idea that was in another text, if something was interesting to me that I wanted to make a special note of it, and even questions I had during the readings.  

Course Reading-

The pictures above are my annotations of “The Story of Service” by Jessica Mitford. In the annotations I make notes of ideas that I think of while writing as well as under lining lines that I find interesting.

Informational Reading Response-