Outcome III – ​Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
I think that I struggle with achieving this outcome, as I already have a difficult time reading and slowing that down even further for annotative purposes makes it very difficult to get everything done that I need to.
However, when I am reading, I often naturally exemplify the aspect of critical reading when it comes to drawing connections in my head, whether Text-to-Self, Text, or World. When I find these connections, as seen in the below examples, I often jot down the author or reference that I found.
Another thing I have learned to do is put a “summarizing” quick note on some paragraphs that I find more important to the overall piece and themes, or in other words the paragraph is keystone to the piece and I can use this note to draw my own conclusions and questions to the piece and why it was made. I find that this allows me to formulate specifically my essays and the theses therein better as opposed to going back and reading blindly. Included below are examples of both my annotative work as well as some work that is derived from my active reading skills I have improved. In these, I am evidencing this outcome by visualizing my active reading through providing my thoughts on the key pieces of things I read, as well as practicing drawing connections to both other authors and some key topics/ideas alike.
The aforementioned work:
https://mlagasse.uneportfolio.org/2019/03/26/crowdsourcing-narratives/
https://mlagasse.uneportfolio.org/2019/03/21/some-categories-in-sample-narratives/
The annotations:
