Reading the assignment out of the textbook was more of a refesher. i had pretty much heard most of it before, but it is very easy to forget those types of things once you begin writing a paper. It is so easy to just focus on getting your thoughts, ideas, and/or research into your paper without thinking about what is the actual purpose of the writing or who is the paper directed towards. Factors like that can change the overall language of the writing and how the paper may be written. As far as the research portion of our upcoming paper, I haven't necessarily tried the techniques discussed in the text. I just decided to go onto Galileo and search my topic. Overall, I am actually having a hard time finding factual information on my topic and I really do not want to change it. The idea of critical reading discussed in the text didn't necessarily change my perspective on critical reading. It just made me realize how true the explaination of "critical reading" was. Most people truely do not memorize a text. They do in fact find the main idea of the text and pick out other important sub-ideas in the text and relate that to the overall theme of a work.
