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    Annotation

    Part of The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

    Author Remi Kalir, Antero Garcia
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    The MIT Press
    On sale Apr 06, 2021 | 232 Pages | 9780262361408
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    An introduction to annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.

    Annotation--the addition of a note to a text--is an everyday and social activity that provides information, shares commentary, sparks conversation, expresses power, and aids learning. It helps mediate the relationship between reading and writing. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation and its literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and offer examples of annotation that range from medieval rubrication and early book culture to data labeling and online reviews.
    Series Foreword ix
    Preface xi
    1 Introduction 1
    2 Annotation Provides Information 33
    3 Annotation Shares Commentary 63
    4 Annotation Sparks Conversation 87
    5 Annotation Expresses Power 113
    6 Annotation Aids Learning 137
    7 An Annotated Future 161
    Glossary 181
    Notes 185
    Further Reading 203
    Index 205
    Remi Kalir is Assistant Professor of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development. Antero Garcia is Assistant Professor of Education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education. He is the author of Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School (MIT Press).
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    An introduction to annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.

    Annotation--the addition of a note to a text--is an everyday and social activity that provides information, shares commentary, sparks conversation, expresses power, and aids learning. It helps mediate the relationship between reading and writing. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation and its literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and offer examples of annotation that range from medieval rubrication and early book culture to data labeling and online reviews.

    Table of Contents

    Series Foreword ix
    Preface xi
    1 Introduction 1
    2 Annotation Provides Information 33
    3 Annotation Shares Commentary 63
    4 Annotation Sparks Conversation 87
    5 Annotation Expresses Power 113
    6 Annotation Aids Learning 137
    7 An Annotated Future 161
    Glossary 181
    Notes 185
    Further Reading 203
    Index 205

    Author

    Remi Kalir is Assistant Professor of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development. Antero Garcia is Assistant Professor of Education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education. He is the author of Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School (MIT Press).
    Remi Kalir View titles by Remi Kalir
    Antero Garcia View titles by Antero Garcia

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