Outcome 3 ( Reading) – Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
Yoshino: people think of it as diversity and inclusion but I would actually challenge that given that I think that historically we’ve seen diversity or inclusion, (0- :15)
Gould: I personally believe that many businesses see diversity as their method for inclusion. While the attempt for diversity may not be successful they believe that by just having a minority present that they will feel included but it takes far more than just that.
My annotations regarding the Yoshino exchanges are crucial to understanding my own thought process for which ones and how I could use each quote as evidence in my paper. The quote I have presented from Yoshino here I was considering using this to show how bipolar we can be with our decision making in society. We love to see things in black or white and this idea reinforces the main idea of my paper, authenticity. I intended to use this as an example of how people rarely form their own ideas about things and will typically go with the group. This black and white thinking is a direct result of social pressures. No one thinks for themselves because they are afraid to be thought of as supporting the other side. When “free thinking” is allowed by society, as my annotation states, it is not enough. This is because it is not an honest inclusion. If it was honest, or authentic then it wouldn’t be considered inclusion it would just be the norm and diversity would be present already.
My personal approach to active critical reading is fairly atypical in my mind. My strategy usually includes a lot of personal jokes or references to my own personal experiences. In the margins of an essay I will find myself quoting song lyrics based off of half phrases that the author unknowingly included into their works. This is something for me that has proved to be extremely helpful when I am scanning through an article making brief comments about the content because it is a great memorizing device that can help me remember what I was thinking of at the time. This strategy or habit originally developed because of my older brothers who are always quoting our favorite shows or movies. As I got more and more invested into various musical artists I cared more about the lyrical content and therefore started to memorize a lot more of the words. I find it far easier to memorize or recall something when there is an emotion to go along with it, and that is what music does for me. When studying or reading a new paper I use the song as a bookmark in my own timeline in order to identify when it was i discovered a quote or notable phrase in the article or reading. In addition to my unique strategy I find myself often questioning the motives for the author’s writing and perhaps why they have written a phrase the way they have. I tend to be over critical and try to find inconsistencies in their arguments as well because, as my family will attest, I love to argue. Prior to reading something I always need to establish my own motives also. If I have a set of questions to answer I will most likely write them at the top of the page and scan for keywords that could relate to the question so as to explore the local area for as long as possible. My problems in annotation however usually arise because of the amount of personal connections I have and make to the writing. Every sentence can have a significant meaning to me if I try hard enough to make it one. This can prove to be fatal as well when there are strict time constraints placed up me for an assignment as I will become enthralled in the reading, and with no regard for the pressing deadline I will stroll through the reading stopping to smell every rose I can. I want to get everything out of the writing that an author ever could have intended someone to take out of it. I think that that is a result of being raised with two older brothers. I want to compete for everything, even if it is just to know more about a topic than others. The quote I ended up including on this page from Yoshino never ended up making it into my second paper, but I thought that it was more significant to include something that did not present itself in the final project because it highlights how much I can connect to an idea that is not even essential to the final product. I will often make connections that are completely irrelevant and jump to conclusions just because I want to believe that the author was being deeper than they really were.
