Active Reading Homework

I read the article once, underlining what I thought was the main ideas of each paragraph, defining key terms and also defining words that I didn't understand. Sometimes I would be unsure if a point is important but I underline it anyway. After reading it the first time, I was able to get a general sense of the article. Then, I would go back and reread it, and rewrite the "main idea sentences" so that it would make sense to me. By doing so, I am able to grasp the points that the author is making and the general flow of the essay because I am rereading things that I defined and underlined. Active reading definitely helped because I know that if I read without underlining anything, I would overlook key points and just skim the article and never really understand it. For example, in the beginning of the article it was talking about "duck and cover." I remember in class I was thinking to myself, what the heck does this have to do with cyber-attacks?? I was very confused about that paragraph as a whole and because of active reading, I was able to see it's relationship with the outdated regimes that spoken about throughout the article. Oh and most importantly, and I make sure I use a pen with a lot of colors because it forces to to want to use it so I make sure I'm actively reading! Oh yeah!