Reading Annotation: “Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making”by Doug Downs Annotations GuideReading and writing

Reading Annotation: 
“Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making”
by Doug Downs
 Annotations Guide
Reading and writing are two sides of the same coin. Each is pointless without the other. Therefore, when reading, it is often beneficial to consider how the reading will contribute to, enable, or otherwise affect your writing. One of the best ways to do this is through annotation. 
In academic writing, there are two kinds of annotations conducted for reading tasks. In this class, we will be using the first style to study and the second style to write: 
The first type of annotation, the one you’re most likely familiar with, simply means notetaking and may include highlighting, margin comments, underlining, color coding, or whatever helps you organize a reading’s contents for future use in writing. 
The second type of annotation helps to prepare a tool used in large writing projects called an Annotated Bibliography. Annotated bibliographies help to compile the information from a large number of sources onto one document in a useful way. 
This type of annotating entails organizing thoughts and summaries of each source as two paragraphs under a complete citation.

Phase II of this course will be an Annotated Bibliography assignment in UNIT 2, which we will begin preparing for now with these short annotation assignments. 
Over the course of UNIT 1, you will be reading and annotating works by experts in the field of Writing studies. This serves several purposes. 
This is not your typical “English” class. By reading works from experts in the field, you will learn how to look at writing in your own life, as we do in Writing Studies, as that which mediates most activity in our daily lives. 
These annotations also provide written content that you will be using in Phase II (So take it seriously!)
MOST IMPORTANTLY, as you will see, these readings provide the terminology and theoretical frameworks for ALL of your future work in this class. 

 Discussion
The assignment is “Annotation for Doug Downs, ‘Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making'” (WaW, pp. 458-469