annotation
Comment on text
An annotation is a note or comment added to a text, image, or other work to explain, interpret, or highlight something.
Annotations appear in margins of books, as pop-up comments in digital documents, or as metadata in code.
To annotate is to add such notes: The professor's heavily annotated copy of the poem.
She annotated the contract before the meeting.
Citation at page bottom
- endnoteBack-of-book citation
- citationMention of a source
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- bibliographyList of cited works
peer-reviewed · academic · journal · abstract · thesis · dissertation · marginalia · gloss
Brief stated opinion
- remarkSpoken comment or note
- glossShine or annotation
- marginaliaNotes in page edges
- footnoteCitation at page bottom
sidebar · highlight · underline · bookmark · jotting · scribble · memo · post-it
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- glossShine or annotation
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- explicationDetailed interpretive analysis
elucidation · contextualization · subtext · symbolism · allegory · metaphor · allusion · semiotics
Brief stated opinion
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- suggestionIdea proposed for consideration
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- editModify written material
revision · remark · observation · recommendation · track changes · redline · proofread · review
footnote
Citation at page bottom
bibliography · peer-reviewed · academic · journal · abstract · thesis · dissertation · marginalia · gloss · apparatus
comment
Brief stated opinion
- remarkSpoken comment or note
- glossShine or annotation
- marginaliaNotes in page edges
footnote · sidebar · highlight · underline · bookmark · jotting · scribble · memo · post-it · pencil mark
exegesis
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- glossShine or annotation
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
explication · elucidation · contextualization · subtext · symbolism · allegory · metaphor · allusion · semiotics · signification
comment
Brief stated opinion
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- suggestionIdea proposed for consideration
- correctionFixing of mistakes
edit · revision · remark · observation · recommendation · track changes · redline · proofread · review · assessment
metadata
Descriptive information about content
- taggingAttaching identifying markers
- markupAdded percentage for profit
- labelIdentifying attachment or marker
timestamp · caption · tooltip · hyperlink · XML · HTML · semantic · data entry · machine-readable · crowdsourced
doodle
Mindless rough sketch
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- diagramSimplified explanatory sketch
- storyboardPlanned visual sequence drawings
thumbnail · symbol · icon · pictorial · graphic · drawing · mind map
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
- book culturereading, reader, book lover, bookworm, bibliophile
- book partspage, pages, cover, index, chapter
- study aidstutor, CliffsNotes, crib sheet, study guides, flash cards
- teaching methodspresentation, lecturing, discussion, modeling, hands-on learning
- Content Analysiscoding, themes, sentiment, tone, keywords
annotationbody text
Document's main prose
source text · narrative · original text · text · statement
annotationblank
Without marks or content
clean copy · unmarked · neglect · omission · deletion
annotationobscuration
Act of concealing
obfuscation · heedlessness · formlessness · confusion · mystification