Find a passage from a critical article or book on Hamlet. The simplest way is to find an html or pdf article through the Library databases; if you have access to a scanner (which might include an app on a smartphone), you can scan from a print source. (NOTE: I will give extra credit to anyone who scans and annotates a print source! Email me for details.)
Copy and paste the passage (it might be a page, or several pages) into your word-processing software.Annotate (or “gloss”) the passage; see the “How to Annotate a Passage” handout on the “Lectures, Handouts, and Announcements” forum. Use a passage long enough to provide at least five annotations. What should you note? Briefly tell us in each annotation what the author is doing. Respond, characterize, refute, extend, illustrate – have a dialogue with the author.
Post this as a file attachment here.
Probably I mis-remembered what I called the handout; but for mechanically adding comments to a document in Word, just click on the Review tab on your Word menu bar. Then, after your cursor is placed where you want to comment (or you have highlighted a passage), click New Comment, then type into the bubble that will appear on the right.