In order to understand articles, books, and papers we need to actively read. As I began english 110  I didn’t completely understand how to actively read. As the course went on I began to grasp new strategies on how to actively read. After finally realizing how to fully actively read, instead of just underlining and skimming the work, I began to highlight, underline and write in the margins of the works I read. For my annotations and responses I tend to look into the main ideas of the work and then dive  further into the smaller parts so that I can later use these ideas in an essay or work of my own. I only mark and write about the main ideas of a paper or article then I go back, read more, and look at the small details of the main idea. I interrogate texts step by step instead of diving in all at once and mixing up my ideas. Throughout class I learned new ideas from all of my classmates on how to break down, analyze, and write about many different forms of reading and writing. Overall I would say that my way of  interrogating the texts is passive aggressive and that I take different steps than many others would to analyze the text. The best ways to analyze text is to take a step back after discovering certain ideas and look further into them.

in a selection from Susan Gilroy’s “Interrogating texts” she  says to ”
Mark up the margins of your text with words or phrases: ideas that occur to you, notes about things that seem important to you, reminders of how issues in a text may connect with class discussion or course themes”, throughout English 110 I have gained these exact ways to interrogate, actively read, and pick apart different written works.