• What’s Empath’s Emporium?

The key to writing good annotations is to strengthen language. Empath’s Emporium is a weekly series where I highlight three superbly written annotations from the past week. The goal is for us all to discuss how we can improve the quality of our writing. Plus, praise and upvotes!

Check out last week’s installment here.

• How do you decide which annotations to feature?

These annotations are already tightly written, meaning they need to be edited a maximum of 1% attribution. They should contain no unnecessary padding and minimal errors. These are the kinds of annotations we should be shooting for!

For more detailed info on the standards I’m going by, check out the Refining Language and Contextualizing Tate Talks.

• How can I get featured?

Write great annotations! If you think one of your tates qualifies, send me a message with the link.

Remember: Only tates made between this installment and the next qualify. To avoid redundancy, make sure the tates you send haven’t already been featured in threads like Tates of the Week.

This Week’s Features:

@UnBalanced proves he can tackle even the most vulgar lyrics with well-established insight and explanation.

https://genius.com/10427908

We talk a lot about being concise in our annotations, but @SpurgeonC really showed us how it’s done! Refined and highly informative.

https://genius.com/10433968

Brand new editor @kolovoz shines through with a nicely contextualized history lesson.

https://genius.com/10420078

Do you agree with these examples?
If so, what makes them great?
If not, what could be improved?
Post other fantastically written annotations below!

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GREAT CHOICES!

I saw this thread had come out and was like, “okay, time to go give some upvotes to some deserving peeps,” but dang if this batch isn’t extra deserving.

Wow that Profession Green tate needs a looot of context lmoa