• What’s Empath’s Emporium?

The key to writing good annotations is to strengthen language. Empath’s Emporium is a weekly series highlighting 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 5% 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?

Have you seen some amazing tates? Did you write one of your own? Nominate them by sending me a message with the link!

Remember: Only annotations 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:

@Garythejerk returns to drop knowledge, this time with some great context that illuminates otherwise straightforward lines.

https://genius.com/11005774

This tate from @aNewAmericanClassic provides some punchy and essential background info.

https://genius.com/11004179

Of the numerous song bios @theonlydjorkaeff has dropped lately, this one stood out for hitting all the marks.

https://genius.com/7590169

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

@genius-editorial-board

great work everyone!

Excellent job to all! Ben has been going to town on bios lately.

bong bong! good to see OG’s like @Theonlydjorkaeff in EE!

:) thanks Empath! Some great tates here as usual.