Ball point ink is less likely to soak through the page. When annotating, choose pencil or ball-point ink rather than gel or permanent marker. Writing in the text with a simple pen or pencil is always preferable. Using them creates big swaths of eye-popping color in your text, but when you later go back to them, you may not remember why they were highlighted. These are better than nothing, but in truth, they’re not much help. Many students use brightly-colored highlighting pens to mark up texts. For a strategy that helps you take note of what you see as interesting or important points of a text while also responding to those points with your own ideas, see “ Dialectic Note-taking” in the “Writing about Texts” section of this text. You might also choose to use sticky notes to capture your ideas-these can be stuck to specific pages for later recall. If you can’t write on the text itself, you can accomplish almost the same thing by taking notes-either by hand (on paper) or e-notes. Note that I say most-if you have questions about your own school and plan to sell back any textbooks, be sure to ask at the bookstore before you annotate. In other words, you can annotate a college textbook and still sell it back to the bookstore later on if you choose to. Important note: most college and university bookstores approve of textual annotation and don’t think it decreases a textbook’s value. If you don’t make notes as you go, today’s great observation will likely become tomorrow’s forgotten detail. Capturing these ideas as they occur to you is important, for they may play a role in not just understanding the text better but also in your college assignments.
You might underline important sections, circle words you don’t understand, and use your own set of symbols to highlight portions that you feel are important. You can jot down questions and ideas as they come to you. Writing in your texts as you read-annotating them-is encouraged! It’s a powerful strategy for engaging with a text and entering a discussion with it. Annotate and Take Notes Words of Wisdom by Anne CN is licensed under CC by 2.0Īs children, most of us were told never to write in books, but now that you’re a college student, your teachers will tell you just the opposite.
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