Henig Annotations

For the annotations I did in Robin Marantz Henig’s, “What Is It about 20-something?”, the three types of annotations that were the most evident during the coding process were understanding annotations, questions, and drawing relationships. For the majority of my annotations, I like to write understanding annotations because it allows me to write what I read in my own terms. This helps because I can comprehend the information better. One specific section I did this in Henig’s writing was when she was talking about the Yellow brick comprehensive residential program. On page 213, it talks about an example about a young woman, C., and how she had many struggles like drinking and anorexia. Coming to Yellow brook, she was able to pull herself together. Through the whole passage, I wrote two blurbs summarizing what the passage said and pulling out the key information. This was able to aid me in grasping what was going on.

For question annotations, I always read a section and see if I understand what it is saying or if I can question what it is saying. I do this often because I feel like they are questions of value that I can ask my professor or a friend. One area that I did this was on page 202 where he was talking about children take so long to grow up, and I asked the question why is it that children take so long to grow up? I even tied my question with a relation as I talked about how in Twenge writing, she too talked about how it takes children so long to grow up, and she said it was because of technology. This book talked about different factors such as we just have developed this way overtime.

For the drawing relations annotations, I mainly look over a passage and see if I’ve heard anything prior to the reading that relates to what had been written or if I have my own experience that are like what have been written about. In this texts, I can relate to what was talked about on page 209 where they talked about the New Yorker, Julie, and how she was coddled her whole life. She was happy to be so privileged but felt she had not grown up yet. I compared to her because I was given a lot of help growing up and now I feel like I still have so much to learn on my own.

With all these annotations, I was able to understand what Henig was writing about in this text. Without the annotations, I would still be confused about some of her ideas.