Outcome 3: When it came to annotations, I found myself often writing one long idea on a single sticky note. Almost as if my annotations where mini paragraphs themselves. I’m not exactly sure if that is what annotations are supposed to be, but I haven’t received any criticism for it so I’m assuming my blocks of text are an okay way of doing annotations. Annotations that were just small little sentences I didn’t find worth it to write down most of the time as the ideas present within those sentences are ones I thought I could easily remember. I would like to think I had a healthy mix of annotation styles although if I had to pick one I used most often it would the understanding style. Mostly because a lot of the essays we have read have the actual ideas needing to be synthesized from the text. The one essay whose annotations I think shows my skill and offers a healthy mix of styles was Devil’s Bait by Leslie Jamison. I had only done annotations once in high school, so it is hard to track my growth from basically nothing, but I think there is some reasonably solid annotations in my third blog post. I found that Devil’s bait was rather long, but a very interesting read. It was full of gripping descriptions of suffering that coalesced into an idea about empathy multiple times over. The annotations helped me remember which section matched up with which idea while also giving me a detailed rundown of the idea when I came back to the section later. I was somewhat skeptical about using annotations again when first starting the class, but know I see firsthand how they help to compartmentalize knowledge. A handy skill to have if the situation presents itself.