Many of the techniques that were gone over in in our active reading section of our class, I found to be things that I was already doing. The problem is that I didn’t, and still don’t to a degree, write any of them down. However, just because I don’t write them down, doesn’t mean I don’t act on them. For instance, my entire third essay came about while reading one of the reading that we were assigned. That essay was “Why Nice Guys Finish Last” by Julia Serano. Basically the entire time I was reading, I was constantly thinking to myself, “huh I’ve noticed that the rise of certain preferences on the internet completely dismantle what she argues keeps rape culture in place.” After the class, I sent a text to my sister saying what I said in a more humorous statement and she wanted it explained. After meeting her online and have a conversation about it, I realized that there’s actually quite a lot of substance here, enough to make a whole essay about it. But that’s one of the rarer examples. What normally happens, like the attached example, is that I end up relating what I read back to my own life. Connecting ideas and themes that we go over and making personal connections to them.