Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
Throughout this semester, I think my active reading has gotten much better considering I would re-read my work often to make sure everything made sense. Also I would re-read to make sure the evidence that I was using was actually relevant to the point I was trying to get across. A lot of times in my drafts, there were multiple grammatical errors because I wouldn’t re-read them before. One of the things that I also had to work on was making sure my annotations of the articles made sense in a way that I could make connections to real life or to other peoples lives when relating to the articles and readings from class. Before this course, I often read and annotated in a very lazy way which would make it very difficult to understand the main idea of the text and then translate into my own words. One of the things I learned from this course was different ways to go about my annotations, meaning I needed to think about them from different perspectives. The material that was given had to be annotated from different angles to get the most out of them and that made me realize how much I can really get from thoroughly reading and thinking. Because I am able to open up so many paths of discussion from my annotations, it makes me that much of a better thinker, writer, reader and listener. Writing the blog posts has also helped me tremendously in the aspect of understanding my annotations further. The blog posts allowed me to write out my idea in more depth which made it much easier to explain in my paper briefly, but with more detail and in a way that it made more sense to the reader. When reading now, I noticed that because I am thinking more about how I can expand on ideas, I often made annotations on things I agreed or disagreed on so that way I could possibly learn from it or have a more detailed response on why I felt the way I did.
Paper 1: I made many connections to the Chabon article “My Son, The Prince of Fashion” because a lot of the quotes in there explain how he is self conscious about himself, but expresses his confidence through his clothes.
Paper 2: In paper 2 I made many connections to the “Pressure to Cover” article by Kenji Yoshino. He has a lot of good evidence as to why people are either forced to cover for their wellbeing or because they don’t want people to think of them in a different way. One of the points I made from reading Yoshino was that if everyone were to be different, then there would be no reason to cover because no one would be similar to you and I connected this to the story about F.D.R written by Erving Goffman.
Another connection I made was to “We’re 20 Percent Of America And We’re Still Invisible”. I used this article to connect to Yoshino’s “Pressure to Cover” because Heumann and Wodatch show covering in a different perspective. It explains how covering is not just done by people themselves, but people can cover other people too. Even if people think they might not be covering themselves, they could be covering someone else.
Paper 3: In this paragraph I made an inference about how Phelps-Roper from “Unfollow” by Adrian Chen was not unkind because she wanted to, but because she grew up learning the things she was doing. I connected it to how people are quick to judge her because all they see is her hateful words and actions, but she really didn’t know any better. (Don’t have an electronic source to show annotations)
