Annotating an Essay

​​An annotation is a question or comment that you write directly on a text. When annotating a text, a writer may ask a question, track the development of an idea, or respond with a personal experience.

Annotation

Annotations may also include a reader's ​inferences and evaluations about the text. An inference is an idea that a reader forms about a text by combining textual evidence and their reasoning and prior knowledge.

​Inferences

An evaluation is a judgment about a text's content or the effectiveness of the writer's craft.​

Evolutation

Open Ended

Define annotation.

Open Ended

What is an inference?

Open Ended

What is an evaluation?

Open Ended

Let's say you find a trail of cookie crumbs leading from the cafeteria to Mr. Sheahan's room. What is ONE (1) inference you might make? PLEASE ANSWER WITH A COMPLETE SENTENCE.

(Sentence Stem: I infer that ________________.)