Susan Gilroy’s passage is about annotating and some of the specific things you could be annotating. She gives a couple of examples of questions you could ask like “what does it mean? Why is the writer drawing that conclusion? Why am I being asked to read this tex?” I find these to be all great questions that I should of been asking my self a lot when going through all the reading articles in class. When I was annotating Julie becks article about “Life Stories” I really started to get more into the annotating process. I made comments which helped helped my writing process later on because I would have already written my opinion on a certain quote I would use later on. I would agree or disagree with some of the statements and give my reason why, just like Susan Gilroy talk about in her passage; she said “Mark up the margins of your text with words and phrases:ideas that occur to you, notes about things that seem important to you,reminders of how issues in a text may connect with class discussion or course themes.” making comments and asking questions are good ways to help with your writing process and can give you more of an idea with Although I didn’t write them down but I’d ask my self questing about what she could mean with the statement she made trying to figure out what she meant for example she quotes “Sometimes in cases of extreme autism, people don’t construct a narrative structure for their lives”(Jonathan Adler). I found this to be an interesting fact and I would love to know more about why someone with autism can’t construct a narrative structure. As I read more of Susans passage the more I understand why annotating is important because annotations get you thinking about what the author is talking about which will really help creat some type of conversation with the author in your paper. Annotations are meant to get you to ask questions, pick out useful information, learning meanings of new words and help with picking out quotes you can use. Annotations really help out with giving you a beginning lay out of how your paper will be so using them would be the best way to go.
