Learning outcome 3
Explain your reading practices in the chosen evidence, making sure to engage in Gilroy’s ideas about the third learning outcome. What are your annotating and informal reading approaches? How did you decide what to mark or discuss? What might this tell you about your ability to “interrogate” readings, as Gilroy puts it in her title. You will likely also draw from the ways your class has discussed and practiced active, critical reading.
I annotated Yo-Yo Ma’s text called “Necessary Edges.” My annotations in blog 14 demonstrated some ideas that are similar to author Susan Gilroy’s suggestions. She wrote a text called “Interrogating Texts.” I made a lot of notes next to things that were important for me to understand. I underlined sentences and wrote my own thoughts about them as a reminder for myself when I reread the text later on. I made notes like “I have heard this before” and “I would agree with this statement.” I do this to show how I am feeling towards the text overall and to tell myself why I agree or disagree with certain things. I like to dig into what the author is saying so that I can better understand my feelings toward the topic. To do this I try to paraphrase in my own words how I am feeling about what they say. In part of Yo-Yo Ma’s text I did not understand what he was explaining, to show this I made a note that said my side of his point and why It makes more sense to me. I do struggle with picking pieces of the text apart and putting them back together in different words. Instead, I wrote a lot of my own opinion about the text. My decisions about how I annotate are all made to help me in the future. I read to understand the text for when I need to write about it and use the information in a broader scheme. I can interrogate the text however much I want to. Many times I reread pieces of writing so that I get the full view.
