Even though it was the first piece we looked at, I think my annotations for Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” are my best work. The way I typically go about annotating is to summarize what the paragraphs are about, and then go deeper and make comments on specific sentences or phrases which I deem important. I also usually read through a first time with very minimal annotation, and then I go over and make my notes. As seen in image_5007, I identify which paragraphs talk about the pros and which talk about the cons, and then in the right margins I write comments about more specific things I noticed, underlining important phrases. To decide what to mark, it was really just whatever stood out to me. If there was a sentence that was particularly passionate, or had a lot of “umph” to it, I underlined it and made a little note in the margins so when we had a class discussion, I could bring it up. I also defined words in the margins, like in image_5008 when I wrote, “a symbol, vs a word or speech sound,” defining ideograms.

Additionally, even though the agree, disagree, or complicated method used later in the semester was not required for this assignment, I naturally found myself writing in the margins whether I agreed with Carr, disagreed, or had mixed feelings about it, in image_5008 bringing in my own personal experiences, saying “I’ve noticed that when reading books, it’s closer to skimming vs paying close attention to every word.”