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  1. Aug 2020
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    Assignment: Introduction to Social Annotation: Annotating Billy Collins' "Marginalia"
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    1. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers,Hands cupped around their mouths.'Absolutely,' they shoutto Duns Scotus and James Baldwin.'Yes.' 'Bull's-eye.' 'My man! 'Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation pointsrain down along the sidelines.

      In this stanza Collins is saying that students may read a text from an author and enjoy what the author is saying but when giving an annotation the students are only agreeing with text with basic annotations such as "yes" or "I agree" which is not a helpful annotation

    2. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      Students are more modestneeding to leave only their splayed footprintsalong the shore of the page.

      Students are only leaving small annotations that do not say much or have much meaning on the side margins of an authors text

    3. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      Other comments are more offhand, dismissive -'Nonsense.' 'Please! ' 'HA! ! '

      Some annotations are rubbish and useless and are not real annotations but maybe just reactions to what the author said in their text

    4. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      Sometimes the notes are ferocious,skirmishes against the authorraging along the borders of every pagein tiny black script.

      I think what Billy Collins is saying here is that when people annotate on an authors text, it is usually attacking or arguing with what the author has stated

    5. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      I was just beginning high school then,reading books on a davenport in my parents' living room,and I cannot tell youhow vastly my loneliness was deepened,how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed

      It seems like Collins was a sad and lonely teen boy who would read to escape from his melancholy

    6. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      A few greasy looking smearsand next to them, written in soft pencil-by a beautiful girl, I could tell,whom I would never meet-'Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.' 

      In the book Catcher in the Rye that Billy Collins checked out at the Library, there was a page in the book that that had an annotation in the margin that was written by a girl who said she apologizes for getting Egg Salad stains in the book on that page and he fell in love with the girl or fell in love with the girls writing.

    7. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoriajotted along the borders of the Gospelsbrief asides about the pains of copying,a bird singing near their window,or the sunlight that illuminated their page-anonymous men catching a ride into the futureon a vessel more lasting than themselves.

      This stanza could be describing all of the readings that you have done and your annotations of these readings or texts

    8. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages; we pressed a thought into the wayside,planted an impression along the verge.

      this could mean that when writing this assignment, we were not lazy but we pushed through an worked hard to convey what we needed to to our audience

    9. afiawan 27 Aug 2020
      We have all seized the white perimeter as our ownand reached for a pen if only to show

      We all had to take on and finish a writing assignment that expressed our opinions on that topic. Seized the white perimeter as our own is meaning having to take on a writing assignment head on maybe? And reached for a pen if only to show is meaning we wrote this on our own showing the topic of that writing assignment.

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