Month: June 2016
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Notes Reflection
Reading text and watching film require two distinct modes of thinking , and similarly thus, reading the script and watching film adaptations of Shakespeare’s works naturally result in different methods of annotating in order to decipher their meaning. Personally, I tend to be a better annotator when reading play-text rather than film adaptations, as I…
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Notes Reflection (Text vs. Film)
If you’re like me and haven’t annotated your reading before, starting this habit can be very hard. I mean, weren’t you taught as a child to not write in your books. At most, you followed your line of reading with your finger but the book should look as undamaged as possible by the time you…
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Notes Reflection
It seems weird to consider my different habits of note-taking, depending on the context. Being in my last year at university you’d think that I’d have a “preferred,” efficient technique down-pat that I’ve found helps me take notes so that when I go back to look at them I understand everything right away. Being scatterbrained…
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Note Reflection- Ore Arowobusoye
In 9th grade English class I met annotation, and we were enemies. I was the type of reader that thought the faster you read a book the cooler you were (are the book-worms really cool in highschool?) so I detested anything that I felt would slow my reading down. Obviously, I wasn’t much of a…
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Notes Reflection
I used to think my note-taking habits were excellent… that is until I took this class. In my other classes, my strategy for studying was merely to rewrite details and memorize. I obviously needed a better note-taking strategy that will allow me to record the literary or film elements that I had observed in an…
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Notes Reflection – Brianna Morton
Reading and watching Shakespeare requires different skills. Reading requires an ability to understand Middle English and personalized interpretation of emotion. In films, director and actors have interpreted the text for you. This makes the meaning easier to understand initially but removes freedom of imagination. When studying Shakespeare, I prefer to analyze both text and film…
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Evidence to Interpretation to Argument
When it comes to moving from argument to interpretation, the methods and manners with which one arrives at a final presentation are often invisible. Of course there are interviews with authors, behinds the scenes footage, and other content that displays the machine of the mind at work in our favorite pieces of entertainment, but how…
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Annotation Practices: Reading a Play-text vs. Watching Film
Reading the text of a Shakespeare play and watching a film interpretation of it are very different experiences. Accordingly, annotation practices will then differ greatly as well. This post will reflect on my notes accumulated over the last few weeks from both reading play-text and watching film. The most obvious difference that stands out when…
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Annotation of Text versus Film
When taking notes, I have various techniques depending on what medium I am using. If I am watching a film, I often tend to be more detailed in describing exactly what I am taking notes on, whereas annotating a text allows me to have context-dependent notes. It is not possible for me to write directly…
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Reflecting on Note Taking
In reflecting on how I take my notes I have come to the conclusion that I do not take many on either the book or film that has been presented to me. For me, note-taking is a very slow and thorough process and therefore distracting, especially when first given a text or film. I find…