Coming into this year I felt as though I was a good active reader as far as critically thinking and annotating go. Mainly because of my last years english class, where for any book we had our teacher made it necessary to annotate and take notes on certain things within the book. She would regularly check our books to make sure we were reading actively by taking notes and also made sure the information we annotated were not just mere highlights to meet the requirement. However, that is what I did sometimes and still did in this year’s class. I do admit to highlighting certain things to make it look like I annotated more than what I actually did. I did this because I would feel like I wasn’t getting everything that was important which led to me highlighting things that were not necessarily important within that given article or reading we were tasked with annotating. In the pictures I provided have my annotations on Boyer’s work and Carter’s work; they either agree with or are connecting to my own work. That is the importance of annotating, to find something you can agree with or even connect that reading back to your own work, it involves a lot of thinking rather than just reading. Which is where I can bring in Gilroy as he believes annotating is more like talking to yourself while you are going through the reading. It will help you better understand if you kind of talk your way through your annotations.
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