12 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2026
    1. Did you know that when you do a Google search you might get different results than the person sitting next to you? Google search results are heavily influenced by algorithms, keywords, advertisements, and even social biases.

      excuse me?!?! how did I not know this?

    2. Brainstorm your various search terms

      this is something so simple yet not something i have thought to do in the past with papers for other courses

    1. Starting with one of your sources, use notecards or sticky notes to write out ONE idea or major claim from your summary.

      This doesn't seem organized even though it is a tool to organize ideas. This is hard to visual and must be done to see the true value.

    1. flexible mindset as a writer to experiment with certain techniques, rhetorical appeals, and ways of writing that you have carefully observed and annotated when you previously read.

      continue to remind self of this even after this course. This will come in handy in future work projects and classes.

    1. our goal is to make the conversation interesting enough that readers will want to get involved in it

      I need to have confidence in this that someone else may be interested in the same things as me or that they have questioned the same things as me. Can I do this?

    2. Freire created “culture circles” which based the learning and practice of reading and writing on the issues that his students faced every day of their lives.

      Love this so much! I wish I could see something like this now in my community to help the under represented people

    3. Freire’s focus in education was primarily with adult learners in Brazil, where masses of poor and under-represented workers were denied voting and other political rights because they were never taught to read and write

      Keeping people uneducated in order to control that masses is such a common theme in so many different forms of media I have been exposed to recently. Even watching whats happening in the news today. WE MUST STRIVE TO BETTER OURSELVES IN ORDER TO HELP OTHERS AND THAT INCLUDES BECOMING MORE EDUCATED

    4. Meaningful research involves using the reading and writing strategies we’ve outlined earlier to investigate your own topics that can help you address issues that you and others like you experience, or even think about everyday.

      How can I connect the topic to more than just myself and make it meaningful for my own curiosities as well as building the community around me.

    1. Critical Information Literacy

      So important especially no with the amount of "Fake News" and opinions floating around as facts. Am I actively reading and using outside information to confirm information? Am I sharing credible information?

    2. Curiosity, Engagement:

      Am I actually relating this to things outside of the reading in order to connect and have a deeper understanding, giving the text more meaning?