Brett Miller
11/26/18
Eng-110
Professor Jesse Miller
Learning Outcome Three
Critical reading and analytical thinking are crucial skills in order to be a good writer. The ability to look at others or even your own writing and then be able to pull ideas from the text is crucial to expand and accel your own writing and way of thinking. When presented with a text I read it as soon as I can to get the quick gist of it. Some wait a day to go back to the text, however I am not so patient so I’ll revisit it within one to two hours later. This is when I will look at it more deeply and reconsider things that I did not before. In Susan Gilroy’s text “Interrogating Texts,” she talks about how you should get in the habit of hearing yourself ask questions. This is something that I agree with because it will help you understand what exactly you are trying to figure out. In paper three Reconsider the lobster my first drafts were very rough and unorganized with no real direction or purpose. After rereading the articles I kept having more and more questions. The learning outcomes for English 110 has one part that says “integrate the ideas with those of others,” which was entirely what paper three was about. Not only did we take the ideas of three different text, but I personally gained a lot from my peer reviews and gained a new perspective of the texts after meeting with Professor Miller. When annotating I annoyingly question everything. Even if I’m almost certain I understand something I question it. This is because if you ask questions and toss around ideas, sooner or later these ideas will connect to each other or something totally different that you didn’t see before.
