While Reading "Freakonomics"..

The reading process for this non-fiction book so far has been a challenge for me. I usually don’t read and I tend to take more time finishing the book than others. A reason for that is because there are many words that I never heard of and it makes it hard for me to read or understand what the author is really trying to say. Since reading this book, some of the active reading strategies I have employed are writing down the words that I don’t know, looking them up to see the definition, and then going back to the phrase to get a better understanding of the text.

Honestly, I didn’t do any annotations while reading, which I should have because I think it would have helped me a lot when trying to write my summaries. If I were to annotate while I read this book, I would have been able to remember what the text stated in short and refer back to it. A piece of advice that I would give to another reader to help them with retention and understanding of this book, is to be assiduous in annotating and writing down words they don’t know. Also, read the book sooner than later because you don’t want to get caught up having to read 80 pages in 1 day.

I tried to keep up with the assigned reading schedule by reading any chance that I had. I sometimes pulled out my book and read on BART and if I had any other homework, I usually saved the reading for last because I never knew how long it would be to read a few pages. I admit, I didn’t read as many pages as I should have at a time, but I read enough to where I could see where the author was going at the time.