ENG 1304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sparknotes, Dotdash, Ask.Com
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Finding and choosing articles to annotate: don"t pick the first eight articles with vaguely relevant titles to use as sources, don"t read every of every article. Even when reading an article in order to annotate it - learn to skim effectively - a crucial research skill. Look for abstracts: read first sentences of each paragraph. Look for key statements; skip past anecdotes, examples, evidence. Etc: what needs to be defined, topic: do not resuscitate requests, ask: what, exactly, are these, this term would need to be defined in your essay, along with any other complex or debated terms: The connections between color and emotion: why should anyone care, this forces you to think about audience. As you develop your claims and outline: the beginnings and endings (introductions and conclusions) of essays are especially good places to pre-emptively answer the so what? question.
