8 Commenting on the Common Sense Project
Let me show you three ways to comment on your pdfs in the Tom Paine Annotation Project. The first is simple enough, and I’ve shown it to you in class; the second is useful; and the third is probably the best (but you should decide for yourself.
1.
- Simply select “Comment” from the horizontal tool bar at the top of the pdf, then select “Add Sticky Note.”
- Move the note into the margin (righr or left) near the text you want to annotate, then open “Options” in the Sticky Note itself.
- From “Options” select “Properties.”
- Select the “General” tab and set “Author” and “Subject.”
- The”Subject” line should make clear the word or phrase you are annotating.
2.
- Select “Comment” from the horizontal tool bar at the top of the pdf, then select “Show Comment & Markup Toolbar.”
- From the new toolbar select the “Text Edits,” which is second from the left and which takes you to the “Text Edit Tool.”
- With tool invoked select the passage you want to annotate.
- Then Right Click with your mouse to see various options: choose “Add Note to Text (Comment).”
- From here proceed as if with a standard Sticky Note.
3.
- Select “Comment” from the horizontal tool bar at the top of the pdf, then select “Show Comment & Markup Toolbar.”
- From the new toolbar select the “Text Edits,” which is second from the left and which takes you to the “Text Edit Tool.”
- With tool invoked select the passage you want to annotate.
- Then Right Click with your mouse to see various options: choose “Underline Text (Comment).”
- Click on the underlined text and a comment box appears.
- From here proceed as if with a standard Sticky Note.