Above I actively read and annotated Susan Greenfield’s book “Mind Change.” My active reading approach is to read through with a couple highlighters and highlight the main ideas and claims, I then make connections and ask questions in the margins. I marked different topics in the reading with different colored highlighters to make sure when I look back it is easier to understand. In Susan Gilroy’s selection she discusses how we need to create a “dialogue” when annotating and reading text. By Gilroy’s terms I interrogate my text by marking up the margins with ideas, connections, notes, questions, and overall outlining my text. For this text we did more discussion based informal responses. But I did use this source for the social media project during the semester. This project like any other required a pre-writing activity. This activity had us analyze the many different sources and see how they connected. Doing this helps me go back to my annotations and to really look at what I highlighted and see how I can use the evidence to support my writing. In writing pieces that consist of using more than one source it is helpful to use these kinds of strategies and to interrogate the readings so that when it comes down to actually using the information it is easier to put all together. Informal responses are a great way to really digest the information and be able to see what you got from the reading as whole. At the beginning of the semester I would just read whatever was assigned and I wouldn’t really engage with it. Now, I have learned many different skills in English 110 to help me better engage and make sure that I am actually interacting with what I am reading and not just reading to get it over with.