The following pictures are from my annotations of Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” article. I believe that these annotations best exemplify active, critical reading. My annotating approach for this specific article was to highlight in two different colors. One color for words and a different color for statements. My thought behind this was that the words that I highlighted would be words that came up a lot through the article or words that I did not know the definition too. If the case was that I didn’t know the definition then I would look up the definition and write it to the side, as you can see in the first picture I uploaded. The reason for highlighting repetitive words is because in class we would discuss the main topics of the articles we read. We would do this by sharing words that were deemed crucial to the article and explaining why we thought so. By highlighting these words beforehand, it allowed me to think about why they were crucial to the writing before class.  When I highlight statements, I highlight things that I think are interesting or things that pertain to the journal entry that was assigned. For example, in the journal entry I included below I put a quote that I highlighted in the reading of “Defense of Distraction” by Sam Anderson. I highlighted this quote because I knew that I disagreed with it and providing quotes that we agreed, disagreed, or it was complicated was a part of the journal assignment. By highlighting the quote while reading the article it made doing the journal entry ten times easier. Along with highlighting the quote I also wrote in the margins of the paper why I disagreed with it. This would help me to remember my thoughts when I went back and completed the journal. I think that my approaches to annotating show that I have the ability to draw relationships and ask questions to challenge or extend an idea in the text. Instead of just meaningless highlighting I take the time to examine the words on the page and relevantly apply them to journal entrees and eventually to the writing of an essay.

 Norah Barry says:

October 19, 2023 at 9:07 pm

Page 5, paragraph 3 -Disagree
Anderson states in this paragraph “We read online, hardly even read at all, our eyes run down the page in an F pattern, scanning for keywords”. I don’t agree with this statement because I think that it depends on who is reading and what they are reading. Personally, I can read online and comprehend what I’m saying if it is something that I am interested in. For example, if I’m reading a news article about something that sounds really interesting then I can read it, understand it, and then even be able to share to others what I’ve read. However, if I read something for class that may not be as interesting to me then I may have a harder time reading it, but I will still read it. I know that this probably isn’t true for everyone. So, I understand where this quote is coming from but personally, I don’t do this, so I disagree.