Annotation Evaluation

The advantage of Highlighting:

Selective highlighting is performed to help students set up what they have read by indicating the main points. Highlighting is a strategy that coaches student to pick out keywords, vocabulary and phrases.

The benefits of highlighting can give students time to reinforce their performance. However, in order to succeed in this process you should read through the text first, so then you get the basic knowledge about what it tells you and what you have decided to highlight. Re-read it again then start highlighting the main ideas, highlight facts and key vocab only and not the entire sentence, and finally turn your highlighted points into a summary paragraph. This process helped me significantly when I studied about my chosen area of abuse (Domestic Violence against Women).

The advantage of underlining:

Underlining is also a part of the highlighting family; they share most of the same benefits. Underlining makes phrases or key words emerge from the content, the other advantage from this is that it will make it less demanding for you to recognise them if you ever needed to recall back to the content. However, even though underlining is almost as good as highlighting and also a much faster process, it is less discernible when compared to highlighting. Even though underlining helped me to understand what I was looking at more in depth, I preferred highlighting as it helped me to identify the precise information I needed to know.

The advantage of annotating:

Annotating is useful when you add it to your highlighted points as it will to help clarify what it is you have highlighted and make your highlighted points more compelling. The main purposes of annotating is to make the content clear and precise to the point. This will be effective on the reader as they would know exactly what the content is about without the need of going through the whole text.