Tag Archives: PDFs

HOW TO – Make Preview the Default PDF Reader on a Mac

ALSO POTENTIALLY RELEVANT: How to make images web-ready (cropping and resizing in Preview) and How to annotate PDFs (in Preview). Change the Default PDF Reader to Preview Preview is a …

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HOW TO – Save a Document in PDF Format

MAC USERS If you can print it from your Mac, you can save it as a PDF. This works with nearly all applications, but it’s particularly useful for saving web …

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GUIDE – Use PDF annotation tools to teach academic reading

Common Teaching Issue: Students could use more help reading academic articles I notice this problem in two ways: in how students respond to articles as assigned readings and in how …

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HOW TO – Annotate PDFs on a Mac

Being able to highlight passages and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t want to have to print out lots of documents but …

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HOW TO – Annotate PDFs on Windows

Being able to put highlight passages in and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t want to have to print out lots of …

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STUDENT SAMPLE – Annotated Guide to "Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing Sex in a Gendered World"

A strong annotated guide, prepared by Sabrina Conte for the Spring 2011 section of WRTG 3020 through Continuing Ed. for the article: Dozier, R. (2005). Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing …

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