Social annotation as transcontextualization in graduate reading practices | Pedagogy: Critical approaches to teaching literature, language, composition and culture

Social annotation as transcontextualization in graduate reading practices | Pedagogy: Critical approaches to teaching literature, language, composition and culture
Graduate students must learn to read as professionals who move their reading work into spoken and written discourse. This study borrows Deborah Brandt and Katie Clinton’s description of transcontextualizing moves to examine how graduate students use social annotation to develop as readers. Specifically, the study examines graduate reading practices through think‐aloud protocols and archived annotations of three readers enrolled in a doctoral literacy seminar. Findings suggest that graduate readers may benefit from opportunities to reflect on how the technologies of annotation contribute to the transcontextualization of their reading across time and space.

Sprouse, M.L. (2021, April). “Social annotation as transcontextualization in graduate reading practices.” For Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 21:2. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-8811534