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An introduction to the literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance of annotation across historical and contemporary contexts.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation--defined as a note added to a text--and it’s literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It outlines the major affordances of annotation, and explains how annotation enables readers to respond to their texts, interact with various forms of media, and make meaning with and from this everyday activity. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication. Examples range from medieval rubrication and the Hebrew Talmud to data labeling and online reviews.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation--defined as a note added to a text--and it’s literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It outlines the major affordances of annotation, and explains how annotation enables readers to respond to their texts, interact with various forms of media, and make meaning with and from this everyday activity. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication. Examples range from medieval rubrication and the Hebrew Talmud to data labeling and online reviews.