Assignment Task: Please write at least one annotation per sentence with your thoughts and questions on that particular sentence. Circle, underline, and scribble your notes, thoughts, hypotheses, reactions, and responses on the page. Then write 2 page reflections on your annotations.
Passage:
What does theory mean here? First, theory signals 'speculation'. But a theory is not the same as a guess. 'My guess is that...' would suggest that there is a right answer, which I don't happen to know: 'My guess is that Laura just got tired of Michael's carping, but we'll find out for sure when their friend Mary gets here.' A theory, by contrast, is speculation that might not be affected by what Mary says, an explanation whose truth or falsity might be hard to demonstrate.