On Annotation

  • Annotations should answer two kinds of questions: first, questions which readers ask themselves while reading a text; second, questions which readers do not ask themselves while reading a text but which, after reading the annotation, they feel they should have asked.

    Burkhard Niederhoff, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
     
 
 

Archive for January, 2026

 
  • A happy New Year to readers of our newsletter! The first days of January find us here in southern Germany shovelling snow from driveways and ploughing through mail piled up […]