“Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.”
I don’t remember much about how I annotated my texts before this class. I know people do it for fun in their books, but I have never done that, and I used to think of that as the worst part of a project. Ever since I have started annotating, I feel like I have grown in my ability to annotate, and my work in this class shows how far I have come. My annotations aren’t perfect, and I still miss things that we discuss in class, but I believe the whole point of annotating is to connect the reading to myself, therefore making it more memorable, and also to pull out key pieces. When I was annotating the Turke essay, I feel like I was really trying to put some of my ideas in there to create these connections as a basis for future assignments. I wrote down my reactions and my opinions, and also underlined lines that I thought were key ideas.
This is a good example of connecting the work to my ideas-I directly state my stance on one of Turkle’s ideas in the second paragraph. This image also shows some of my other techniques when annotating, like underlining key ideas, connecting the text directly to myself, and even just highlighting words I am unfamiliar with.
Here, I did the same-I connected the text to my experiences and added more of my thoughts.
I think this is the best example of connecting the text to my ideas and experience. I used this quote and some form of this annotation as the basis for one of my paragraphs in my first essay, where I talked about my dad’s thoughts around children with technology. I often used these annotations as starting points for my essays, because these were the places in the text where I had the most thoughts and could therefore write more. In journal 5, I took a similar paragraph and expanded upon my ideas:
While this isn’t the exact quote nor the exact words I used in my essay, I used similar ideas in that essay which were based off of this journal and the above annotation.
