Chapter 24

     In chapter 46, the main ideas where, writing about texts. Summarizing or analyzing a text and when you write about a text, two techniques that can help you better understand the reading is to annotate while you read it with observations or questions and by underlining the main ideas or key points. Another idea was to sketch an outline of the text by outlining the authors thesis and key points. The thesis statement is usually in the first two sentences of a text/writing.
     In the future I plan to, as I read any kind of writing or text, to find the key points and the authors main ideas by annotating the text. They said it's better to use a pencil instead of highlighter so that you can make changes, so I will start doing that as well. For summarys, also, I plan on using the outline to be able to find the main ideas of the text, because as you sketch an outline and break it down by pieces and seeing how the author construced the text, you can get a better understanding of what you're reading.