This research explores the annotation and note-taking practices of graduate students and reports on the sets of activities, habits, objects, tools and methods that define the practice. In particular, this empirical study focuses on understanding the integration of annotation practices within larger scholarly processes. This study therefore aims to describe and analyze annotation not only as material externalities of the research process, but also as crucial epistemic practices allowing students to progress from one research activity to the other. Interviews are supplemented by document collection and analyzed using a multi-perspectival framework. The findings describe an annotation lifecycle and suggest a new model of the scholarly process using annotation practices as units of analysis. The study further discusses annotation as a primitive epistemic practice and examines the productive tensions fostering the student’s progress towards her goals. This research finally proposes requirements for future tools supporting scholarly practice.

This research explores the annotation and note-taking practices of graduate students and reports on the sets of activities, habits, objects, tools and methods that define the practice. In particular, this empirical study focuses on understanding the integration of annotation practices within larger scholarly processes. This study therefore aims to describe and analyze annotation not only as material externalities of the research process, but also as crucial epistemic practices allowing students to progress from one research activity to the other. Interviews are supplemented by document collection and analyzed using a multi-perspectival framework. The findings describe an annotation lifecycle and suggest a new model of the scholarly process using annotation practices as units of analysis. The study further discusses annotation as a primitive epistemic practice and examines the productive tensions fostering the student’s progress towards her goals. This research finally proposes requirements for future tools supporting scholarly practice.

[pt] O texto literário pode hoje ser encontrado em diferentes plataformas, tornando-se acessível no computador, em tablets e até em celulares. Os paratextos editoriais, definidos por Gérard Genette como aparatos que giram em torno do texto principal de um livro, têm acompanhado estes deslocamentos. Sem deixar de exercer suas antigas funções, eles assumem outros formatos e proliferam no ambiente virtual, tendo muitas vezes mais acessos do que o texto da própria obra, considerado principal, veiculado frequentemente na plataforma impressa. Nesta dissertação, abordaremos os paratextos não só como um fenômeno de mercado que concede uma importância crescente à figura do autor, mas também à luz das quebras na hierarquização dos discursos provocadas pela tecnologia digital. Com este propósito, discutiremos o trailer do livro Todos nós adorávamos caubóis, de Carol Bensimon; a coluna As 15 coisas que sei sobre meu próximo livro, de Luisa Geisler, veiculada no Blog da Companhia; a hashtag Vida de escritor, no Instagram da editora Rocco; o folhetim Delegado Tobias, de Ricardo Lísias, publicado pela editora E-galáxia; e o blog da revista Peixe-elétrico. / [en] Nowadays, the literary text can be found in different platforms, including computers, tablets and even mobile phones. Editorial paratexts, defined by Gerard Genette as devices which gravitate around the body text of a book, have followed this shift. Not abandoning their former purposes, they have taken on other formats and have spread around the web. These paratexts are often more accessed than the actual text of the literary work, which is considered the principal part, frequently published and made available in print. This dissertation approaches paratexts not only as a market phenomenon, which grants the image of the author a growing importance, but also as a breach of discourse hierarchy, fueled by digital technology. Bearing that in mind, this study discusses the book trailer for Carol Bensimon s Todos nós adorávamos caubóis (We all loved cowboys); Luisa Geisler s column called As 15 coisas que sei sobre meu próximo livro (The 15 things I know about my next book), published online on Blog da Companhia; the hashtag Vida de escritor (Writer s life) on the Instagram account of the publishing house Rocco; the serial by Ricardo Lisias, Delegado Tobias (Tobias, chief of police), published by the e-book publishing house E-galaxia; and the Peixe-elétrico review s blog.