The topic of chapter 46 is about reading actively, meaning to annotate and engage in what you are reading. When annotating you are highlighting, underlining, circling words and sentences, asking questions, or taking notes to capture main ideas or key points. After reading an outline should be created to sum up all the main ideas. Then summarize it. Summaries should be kept short. This helps make judgments on what is important. Afterwards, analyze and observe the text. This opens up the point the author is trying to make.
I plan to use this information in everything I read. Sometimes I get confused when I read a paragraph from a book or an article off a newspaper and yet I'm still not understanding it. The chapter mentions about rereading helps discover what we don't notice when reading the first time. This is true. I find myself reading paragraphs after paragraphs several times to understand the point. The information read in this chapter will be helpful. I will continue to make notes, highlight sentences or underline words I am not familiar with that I can later search in a dictionary. Outlining the annotations is a great source in understanding the points of articles as well and I will definitely follow these steps. In doing so I believe it well help me sum up main points of my readings.
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