Practice Annotation:
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Annotation and Summary:
Annotation: Annotation is the higher education word for note-taking on the written page or from writing on a screen or page. Although summary and annotation are related tasks, annotation is what you do for studying, getting to know information well, test taking, and writing a summary. If you take reading notes by focusing on the information that is important to the author’s main point, then you can easily write a summary from these notes. This is because a summary is made up of the main point and the major supporting detail; it leaves out the non-essential information. Watch this Power Point. Summarizing: use it to give only the most important ideas or points that the author makes. Get rid of the detail. Put the ideas and supporting information in your own words. The summary is always shorter than the original. Too many examples are unnecessary in a summary. A summary is usually about a quarter (25% or 1:5) of the length of the original piece. Watch this Power Point. Assignment, Due Friday: Below is an assignment. Together in class we will read this health related paragraph titled "Epidemics." You can print this from the file that is just below this document. After your first reading, go back and underline the information (annotate) that you think should be included in a summary. Read twice or three times to get what you need. Then use the underlined words to make new sentences in your own words. Put them together to make your summary. Be a brief as possible but include all the important information. |
Here is a file that you can use to print this assignment or pages of it, as needed:
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