11.11.2003
This post is about how to use a highlighter.
For those of you who are engaged in highlighting similiarities between comparitive and competing texts, I have these words of advice:1. When using the highlighter marker, go down the page. This will prevent your wrist and arm from getting all highlightered up. I look like I smacked Ronald McDonald in the ear, and I look like this because I started at the bottom of the page and dragged my arm up... right over all of that delicious, wet, pink and yellow ink.
2. When it seems that one whole page mirrors another, there's no need to highlight every line... just make big, neon brackets and leave a clever note, like: "I've read this twice. Call Perry Mason." Unfortunately, since I started out highlighting every line, I've decided to carry this motif through all documentation. Sure, it looks pretty - and it's consitent. But I can feel the ink coursing through my veins - and there is no recreational benefit.