Mentioned here a few days back that my professor flagged how I circle almost every line in a primary source instead of actually arguing with it, something like 40 notes for one chapter. A couple of you said you do the same thing, which stuck with me more than I expected.
This week’s source was a short memoir excerpt. I held myself to 5 marginal notes for the whole thing, one claim per page, instead of whatever I was doing before.
Turned it in Tuesday, got it back today. No comment about circling this time, and the professor actually asked a follow-up about one of the 5 notes, which hasn’t happened before. Might’ve just been this source, hard to say yet.
Still catch myself wanting to underline everything on the next bookstore read… old habit. But the shorter list held for a full assignment, so that’s something.