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Julisa Moctezuma Professor Jensen ENGL 1301 -82601 18 December 2023 Annotation Practice For this assignment, you will annotate an article, a copy of which is pasted below. There are three steps involved. Please read the instructions and follow each step carefully. Before proceeding, turn on Track Changes under the Review tab in Word . Be sure your Track Changes shows All Markup not just a Simple Markup. Step 1: Predict and preview After reading the title and glancing over the text, what do you think the text will be about? What do you understand about the text from the title? What do you know already about this topic? What questions do you have about the text? Type your response to the preview questions here : I think the text is about mass murderers and how they get to the point of planning and following through with their attacks. I understand that the text has something to do with a system of ideas and ideals that form a basis of economic or political theory or policy. I do not know a lot about this topic at this point in time before reading the text. A question I have about the text is what are the different features of ideology and how do we see them in the world today? Step 2: Read, summarize, and annotate As you read the article, use the Track Changes function to annotate the text below as follows:  Summarize . Double-click the last word of a paragraph, and then click the New Comment button under the Review tab to add a comment box. Type your one sentence summary (paraphrase) of the paragraph in the box. Summarize every paragraph in the essay. Group short paragraphs of the same topic together for summarizing.  Define Vocabulary . Double-click any word you do not understand, click New Comment, and provide a definition. Dictionary.com is a good and quick resource for this. NOTE: Only put the definition for the word in its exact context here (not all the definitions).  Annotate . Use the functions in Microsoft Word to highlight sections or words and underline sentences or sections that are important, just like you would if you were annotating a hard copy of the essay. Use the following key to annotate your text:  Highlight the main ideas of paragraphs, including the thesis  Underline supporting details or interesting quotes/facts/ideas  Bold any counterarguments.

Step Three: Answering questions about the text After you have finished reading and annotating the text, return to this step and answer the following questions. Type your responses directly beneath each question . 1. Who is the audience and how do you know? Provide at least three quotes that support your answer. a. I believe the audience for this article is those interested in learning more about ideology and how it relates to mass shootings which could be a generalized audience. Some quotes that support this theory in my opinion are: i. “Many of today’s mass murderers write manifestoes.” ii. “"They are inspired to kill by a shared ideology, an ideology that they hope to spread through a wave of terror.” iii. “The terrorists dream of a pure, static world. But the only thing that’s static is death..” 2. What is your response to this reading? What did the article add to your knowledge or understanding of this topic? a. I believe this article is very info rmative and interesting. I believe this article helps to dig into the mind of a mass murderer and knowing that most of them write manifestoes. This article added a different perspective and an inside into mass murderers and their manifestoes as well as an understanding of ideology. Article to be used: “The Ideology of Hate and How to Fight It: The Battle for the Soul of Our Culture,” by David Brooks, The New York Times , 5 Aug., 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/el- paso-dayton-shooting.html Many of today’s mass murderers write manifestoes . They are not killing only because they’ve been psychologically damaged by trauma. They’re not killing only because they are pathetically lonely and deeply pessimistic about their own lives. They are inspired to kill by a shared ideology, an ideology that they hope to spread through a wave of terror . The clearest expression of that ideology was written by the man charged with a killing spree in Christchurch, New Zealand . His manifesto has been cited by other terrorists; the suspect in this weekend’s El Paso mass shooting cited it in his own manifesto. It’s not entirely what you’d expect. At one point its author writes about his travels around the world: “Everywhere I travelled, barring a few small exceptions, I was treated wonderfully, often as a guest and even as a friend. The varied cultures of the world greeted me with warmth and compassion, and I very much enjoyed nearly every moment I spent with them.” The ideology he goes on to champion is highly racial, but it’s not classic xenophobia or white supremacy. It’s first feature is essentialism . The most important thing you can know about a person is his or her race. A white sees the world as a white and a Latino sees it as a Latino. Identity is racial . The second feature is separatism . Races are healthy when they are pure and undiluted. The world is healthy when people of different races live apart. The world is

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