One of the main approaches to active reading is annotating, for critical thinking it is asking questions. Those are both ways that I approach active and critical reading. As Susan Gilory says in her text “annotating puts you actively and immediately in a”dialogue “. In my chosen annotations on Galen Strawsons “I am not a story” I looked for things I could make connections too. Another way of both active reading and critical reading are the informal questions we answer in groups on texts that we’ve read. This pushes us to reread the text to go beyond what we know and work together as a group to grasp the argument. These forms of reading are ways that can help us learn, to drive in deeper and go beyond what is being asked. As learning outcome 3 puts it you have to “employ techniques of active reading, critical reading and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking”. Although this semester I think we focused more on the thinking part, learning is just something we do. In are class discussions about are annotations we would talk about thinking about what each other is trying to say and what connections to make. Annotating and asking questions when I could helped me to understand the context more, I guess I never knew they were forms of active and critical reading.
