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  2. Text annotation - Wikipedia

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    Text annotations can serve a variety of functions for both private and public reading and communication practices. In their article "From the Margins to the Center: The Future of Annotation," scholars Joanna Wolfe and Christine Neuwirth identify four primary functions that text annotations commonly serve in the modern era, including: (1)"facilitat[ing] reading and later writing tasks," which ...

  3. Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions - Wikipedia

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    Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, according to Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.

  4. Annotation - Wikipedia

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    An annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. It can be a note that includes a comment or explanation. [1] Annotations are sometimes presented in the margin of book pages. For annotations of different digital media, see web annotation and text annotation.

  5. List of awards for contributions to society - Wikipedia

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    This list of awards for contributions to society is an index to articles on notable awards for contributions to society. It excludes humanitarian and service awards , religion-related awards , peace prizes , law enforcement awards and honors and legal awards , which are covered by separate lists.

  6. Marginalia - Wikipedia

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    Hand annotations occur in most surviving books through the end of the 1500s. [1] Marginalia did not become unusual until sometime in the 1800s. Fermat's claim, written around 1637, of a proof of Fermat's last theorem too big to fit in the margin is the most famous mathematical marginal note. [ 2 ]

  7. Memex - Wikipedia

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    In Bush's idea, the ability to connect, annotate, and share both published works and personal trails would profoundly change the process by which the "world's record" is created and used: Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there ...

  8. Personal network - Wikipedia

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    Personal networking is the practice of developing and maintaining a personal network, which is usually undertaken over an extended period. The concept is related to business networking and is often encouraged by large organizations , in the hope of improving productivity , and so a number of tools exist to support the maintenance of networks.

  9. Benefit society - Wikipedia

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    A fraternal-beneficial society would be one whose members have adopted the same, or a very similar calling, avocation, or profession, or who are working in unison to accomplish some worthy object, and who for that reason have banded themselves together as an association or society to aid and assist one another, and to promote the common cause.

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