Annotation
In Short
An annotation is a reviewer's observation attached to a specific place in a document. Anchoring the comment to the text is what turns a general opinion about quality into a finding an author can act on and a scorecard can cite.
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Definition
The anchor is the point. "The eligibility section is unclear" tells an author roughly where to look; an annotation attached to the sentence, naming what is unclear, tells them what to change. The difference determines whether review output is actionable.
Why It Matters
Review output that authors cannot act on wastes the review. Anchored, specific findings are the difference between a document that improves and one that gets re-reviewed with the same result. Without anchoring, the same concern tends to be raised again in the next round, because nobody can confirm whether it was resolved the first time.
Annotations are also what make an outcome auditable. They are the contemporaneous record of what the reviewer saw, which is precisely what someone questioning a decision later needs.
How QueryTek Uses It
QueryTek Review reviewers preview the submitted document in the browser and attach findings anchored to the passage they concern, attributable to the reviewer and tied to the scorecard. A review lead approves the client-facing annotation report before it is released, so the client receives findings that have passed a quality check rather than raw reviewer notes.