When annotating, I would leave comments all through the work. I would start by reading through the paragraphs on the page and then think about what I thought the writer was saying. Throughout the paragraphs I would underline words, phrases, or sentences that I found interesting or that I just liked in general. I would also add brackets around areas that I would comment on. Next to these brackets I would add comments on my own. Sometimes it would be my own thoughts or arguments towards what the writer was saying while other times it would be me reiterating what the passage was saying in order to better understand it. When I would comment my own thoughts or arguments I would add little bullets to the sentences as I read on whenever another thought popped into my head. A majority of the time I would also mark up areas that I thought would spark a good discussion. This way I could use them in class if needed, or I would be able to join in on the conversation if someone else brought up the same part of the writing. When responding to the works that we read through the journals, I picked the areas that I felt I could talk most about. In these areas I was able to explain whether I agree, disagree, or my view was complicated. I would use one or two quotes from the paragraph that I chose in order to back up or contradict my opinion and my views. This way I could have a conversation with the text, in a way. In this way, it helped me to read deeply rather than just take the quote at face value. This was also presented to me through conversation within the class because we got to uncover the deeper meaning to the quotes and the underlying message. 

Although they may not be in order, some examples of my annotations throughout a text will be seen below. They are from two different essays. One by Nicholas Carr titles “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and the other by Sherry Turkle titled “The Empathy Diaries. I feel as though these essays show my most valuable work within the range of annotations because these were my favorite essays to read out of the handful we oversaw in class.