Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking. Critical reading
When annotating in my readings, I generally like to comment on the content that and what my interpretations are of that specific content. It can be categorized multiple different ways, whether it fall under the category of of Understanding, Asking Questions, or Drawing Relationships. For this particular annotation it can be classified as Drawing Relationships as its connecting to previous points shes made in the text regarding self-identification as a feminist. The annotation itself is focused on how women are scared of identifying as a feminist due to harsh misconceptions that are made generalizing feminism, and how this point relates to points she made earlier.
From these annotations I then took the ideas I made in the margins and added them to the conversation that occurred in my blog post, quoting the example that I highlighted in the reading and then branching off of that in the post. I said, “However Gay notes in this article that women have almost policed the term too much”. (McColgan) From there I branched out about the idea of gate keeping the idea of feminism in the post I made which ended up tying in with the paper I wrote.
In the paper I wrote I further took the ideas that I had created in both the original annotations and incorporated them into my paper, where I spoke about primarily gatekeeping, basing the argument around the original quote that was annotated. In my paper I wrote, “being essentially deemed a “bad feminist” by those gatekeeping in the feminist community. Along with society harassing her for her ideations of how she chooses to express herself as a feminist. Gay brings up the idea of essential feminism in the community and how it can deter others from wanting to identify as a feminist.” (McColgan) All three were seperate steps, but they all linked together through the same idea and quote.
