In my first paper, I didn’t have a lot of issues regarding my MLA formatting. The only issue I had was in my works cited page. I added “et. al” to the Roxane Gay citation which was not correct because Gay was the only author. One thing I hope to fix for my next paper would be making sure my citations are correct. One thing I did well in this paper would be including page numbers, title, and double spacing the entire paper.

Hennick Annotations

Reflection

When annotating this article I used the categories for active, critical reading techniques. This new way of annotating has helped me organize my notes by putting them in groups that help me better analyze the reading. My first annotation of this article was about understanding what I was reading. In my annoatition, I explained Hennick’s family situation as the “dad is white and the mom is black. The dad doesn’t know how to explain race to his son and hopes he will get the same opportunities as a white person would.” This helped me with the background of the entire reading. This set the stage for what the rest of the article was going to be about. Later in the article, I made my second annotation about how black children are raised. I said “this is the struggle of parents with black children daily. in order to survive they need to place this into there heads its an on going cycle.” This annotation was then brought into my blog post to explain how African American children are at a disadvantage when it comes to racial profiling. I brought this point into my first paper describing how stereotypes affect how someone can identify. I also used this to propose a solution to stop stereotyping. I explained how breaking the cycle of warning our children that people of different colors are not equals can eliminate racism. My new system of annotating has helped me improve my overall writing skills because I am able to make complete ideas with eveidence to back myself up when writing a blog post or paper.