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These are two pieces of work that during the year we had to read and annotate. We were assigned different techniques to try and two of those techniques are represented in these pictures. The first picture is from the piece, “Why Do Teens Seem Strange Online”, specifically chapter 1, “Identity” by danah boyd. this picture demonstrates the blocking or chunking technique. With this technique one reads the text and puts the brackets around a specific part and a brief description of what that part of the piece is saying. This is so when one looks back at their annotated source, one can read the side comments from the brackets and find what they are looking for a lot faster.  A ‘pro’ to this method is it is a more efficient way to find the points one would want in their paper rather than going through and reading the whole piece again. I personally feel as though this is a great method/technique to use when one is annotating sources. A ‘con’ to this technique could be someone could chunk a certain amount of writing that is too big or too small or they simply don’t write enough of a paraphrase next to it therefore leading to them going back and reading the whole source again.  The second picture is from a piece called, ” Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation”, by Jean M. Twenge. In this piece I chose to use different highlighter colors to represent different things that would pop out to me when I looked back to this source. I categorized each color to a different meaning. Green was more main claims, pink was for the evidence of those claims, purple was for questions that I had, and orange was for my responses and opinions. A ‘pro’ to this technique is that when one does this, it is very clear what you highlighted and why. This can really help a reader when they come back to incorporate sources into essays they have to write. A ‘con’ to this technique is because there are so many colors, one might go ‘highlighter happy’ and end up highlighting the whole page. This isn’t useful because one is still  going to have to go back and read the whole piece again due to the excessive highlighting. The whole point of these techniques are to help someone understand the text better, read more critically, and to help the reader go back to the source, look at what they have done and find exactly what they are looking for more quickly and efficiently. I believe that I demonstrate strong annotation techniques in both of these methods. By doing this, I was able to have a deeper understanding of the text rather than just skimming  through it. I believe that I will take these techniques that I learned in English 110 and use them all throughout my career as a student and through my occupation in my future.