Annotation of articles!

[panicatthelunchbar]

Hi guys, I would just like to know how everyone annotated their articles this year? What type of stuff do you add? How do you think the teacher marks it? We have to make a scrapbook full of articles with annotation which is part of our assessment! Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

[Camo]

Tip 1: variety of highlighters to find different techniques, or to fit into your paragraphs.
Tip 2: arrows to describe highlighted material with 1 sentence max.
Tip 3: read the article twice before analysing, even in the exam!

You mean LA right?

[panicatthelunchbar]

Sorry, what is LA? And thanks for the advice, I'll keep them in mind!

[Camo]

Language Analysis primarily (shorter articles then whole texts), but if your doing texts highlight according to character, themes, etc...

[Becky2012]

Do we do language analysis in Eng Lang? I thought that was just in mainstream English..

[prelyudia]

Do we do language analysis in Eng Lang? I thought that was just in mainstream English..

yeah but language analysis is different in Englan compared to mainstream English. In English, I think you analyse things like persuasive devices and stuff like that, but for Englan, you actually go much deeper and analyse the language used itself following the subsystems (phonology, lexicology, discourse, etc.)

[Becky2012]

That makes sense I was just confused about the characters and themes? We don't do that in Lang do we?

[Starlight]

That makes sense I was just confused about the characters and themes? We don't do that in Lang do we?

As far as 'characters' go, you can discuss a certain individual's language in for example a spoken transcript, for instance discussing their conversational features including turn taking strategies (like interrogative tags, adjacency pairs, explicit markers, minimal interruptions- however interruptions can also be 'supportive' and not 'competitive' in some circumsatnces) which leads to the concept of whether they are being 'cooperative' in the conversation. I don't know how I remember this hah.

With 'themes', they can ask what you what kind of lexical field this conversation is pertaining to, ask you for examples of jargon and they name the topic that's occurring for example about football, generally how the conversation relates to the situation at hand, or how that influences the conversation etc.

[Starlight]

As far as adding articles, like what types to find, basically anything relating to language (esp australian english) is good. Topics I found that were often in the papers included:

* Dysphemisms, or swearing in some cases (a type of dysphemism) from high profile people, and you discuss what the effect of it is for example, tony abbot once said something insensitive about an australian soldier's death (i think it was something like that), and i kind of described how it could potentially lose many of his supporters (but in saying that, there are probably like 4 people supporting him anyway lol)

* Language & Culture, for example prescriptivists (those who highly favour standard english, and find anything that drifts from this to be bad) against ethnolects, but you can talk about both sides here, e.g. ethnolects are good because they can display their (non-standard) cultural heritage, but it can also be perceived as uneducated, since standard english is the most 'prestigious' form of english, but non-standard forms can also have prestige with their marker of groups function.

* Slang e.g. Julia Gillard, and how it can possibly diminish her 'authorative role' but how it can reflect her growing up etc. once again marker of groups.

It's also important that your articles are not outdated, i think anywhere back to mid 2010 is far enough.