The points made by Susan Gilroy in “Interrogating Texts: 6 Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard” demonstrates the Active Reading process. The Active Reading process that Gilroy outlines has to do with getting involved with the text by annotating and then taking these annotations to answer questions and take the information and construct it in a way you understand like a summary or and outline in order to make a good argument. The annotations above includes highlighting the main points, writing side-notes on certain parts of the text, and marking the claims and evidence of the text. This allows me to grasp an understanding of the text and be able to look back at the text and get the main points without having to read the entire text again. The informal writing activity was through the TRIAC method. This informal writing activity combined the new TRIAC method which is a method of integrating the sources with the reading. This application demonstrates a strong engagement as the first claim of the reading which was with the concern with the spread of personal information. I decided to write about that in the informal writing activity because it was the primary claim of the paper. I summarized the text in the TRIAC process and then explained the importance of that claim with the idea of Big Data. I interrogated the text in an effective way by pulling out the important bits of the text and making it easy to go back and grasp an understanding of the text along with turning the text into my own words through the TRIAC process to allow a full understanding of the importance of the text.
