Instapaper, the app that lets you save and share online articles, has just launched a new annotation functionality called Notes. The feature allows users to select a piece of text from an article or ...

PDF is one of the most widely used formats for sharing and viewing documents, especially in professional and educational settings. From business reports and academic papers to eBooks and user manuals, ...

The markup tool in Safari lets you highlight text, add notes, insert your signature, and more. To access it on Mac, take a screenshot of the webpage or convert it into a PDF and use the Markup tool ...

What’s It Like? Genius is a tool for annotating text online. An outgrowth of Rap Genius (a longtime tool for collecting and annotating rap lyrics online), Genius lets users annotate and analyze texts ...

Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

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Then look more closely at the ideas in the extract, and how they relate to one another. Highlight any words or phrases that link to the main themes of a text. With a longer text you might find colour ...

Matthew Luskey, assistant director of the University of Minnesota’s writing across the curriculum program, wants undergraduates in his classes to talk with each other when they first encounter an ...

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 ...

Pick out key elements which show the development of characters. Look for phrases that reveal key details about characters. For example, you might highlight an example of where a character’s appearance ...