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Turning our backs to the major writing assignments, I would like to move on to talk about two annotation assignments we did in this class. The works that I annotate in this paper are "Shitty First Drafts" by Anne Lammott and "The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts" by Donald M. Murray, the two articles that have helped me abandon my old approaches to reading and writing. In my annotations, I put effort into finding meaning in statements, asking questions, discover the meaning of an unknown word, and learning about an unknown person mentioned.
"Shitty First Drafts" Annotations
Annotation Overview
In my annotations for "Shitty First Drafts", I rely too much on annotating unknown words or people to fill up my annotations. In doing so, I don't make many critical statements or questions in my annotations. Overall, this hurt my writing as there are big chunks of text without a single annotation in them. This was a result of when I did this assignment, I hadn't had practice annotating in a long time, which hurt my ability to think critically and form appropriate comments or questions about the reading. Because of my lack of practice, my reliance on explaining unknown words or people is prevalent.
"The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts" Annotations
Annotation Overview:
After my "Shitty First Drafts" annotation, I got a little bit of practice in annotating, which helped me perform better in this assignment overall. In the overview for this assignment, I am a lot more critical in what I mark and comment on. Examples of when I demonstrate my improved annotation skills are when I break down and explain the things writers look for in their drafts as they work on crafting the perfect draft. The aspects they look for include information, meaning, audience, form, structure, development, dimension, and voice. At the same time, I try not to rely too much on explaining words or people I didn't know
My more critical annotations skills are also shown through the way they followed a pattern. This pattern was how my annotations typically reflected on the main idea of this article, which is that when writers are their worst enemy, and they view revision and fun and rewarding, they are able to improve their reading and writing skills most successfully. The way my annotations consistently refer back to the main purpose of the article indicates that the purpose of the article was a takeaway for me, and that I am likely to want to apply it to my own reading and writing.
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