My Way of Annotating

Excerpt

Off to the side is an excerpt from the book, "Back to the Future: Exhibiting Blackness" written by Professor Bridget R. Cooks.

Citation:

Cooks, Bridget R. "Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the Art Museums", pp.138, University of Massachusetts Press

Headquarters

When annotating documents, I like to pull up different blank GoogleDoc, or a separate piece of paper to write everything down. So on one side of the screen, it would be the passage that I'm looking at, and then the other side of the screen would be the blank document.

Audience

To think about who the audience might be, I pay attention to what kind of topic is being talked about in the passage. In this excerpt, the quilts are talked about as art; so the audience could be people interested in this kind of topic.

Knowing who the audience is allows us to know who the author meant the book for and it kind of leads us to know what the purpose of the book is. In this case, a possible purpose of the book is to bring to light

Claims and Words

Claims are the main messages that the author is trying to get across to the reader. I look for parts that include the topic- something that is being explained. In this passage, I think the claim is whether museums can be authoritative about what can go into galleries.

When looking for key terminology, I pay attention to words that I don't know- or don't use quite as often in daily life.

Don't Know?

Google is at our fingertips; a simple copy and paste into a new tab is what I usually do. If I don't have much time to research about the unknown, then I will highlight it and come back to it when I have the ability to.

Primary Sources and Other Works

The author usually cites the information that they are getting; either on a separate reference page, or within the text. Usually when names are included along with their title, I make a note of that and pull up their information on a separate tab in Google.

Response to Other Scholar's Works

I see if there is commentary from the author that comes after the information from other sources. In the passage that I chose earlier, there isn't much commentary from the author; it's just laying the basis of the subject.

Interesting References

Near the end of the paragraph, the author writes about the person's intention of publishing a book that documented the different quilts, their markers, and well as the cultural history behind all of them. I would be interested in looking at the different photos of the quilts as well as the history behind them.

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