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Annotating: The Pros and Cons

Reading is a highly subjective and personal experience: it's determined by objectives, time, preference, resources. Therefore ...
Most faculty members have a go-to activity that can be deployed at a moment’s notice in the classroom. It might be a quick, five-minute writing task or a more-ambitious, small-group exercise. When ...
Annotating your textbooks or other study materials is a great way to help you retain what they’re saying—it forces you to read critically and pay attention. Unfortunately, if you don’t do it right, ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last fall, Thomas Rochowicz, an economics teacher at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School in New York, asked his ...