While reading any work of literature for the first time it’s sometimes difficult to analyze and truly soak in the ideas that the author is presenting to their audience. Even with active reading, such as annotations it’s still difficult. It’s paramount that you read any literature more than once. “Glossing the text” was a very important aspect because it can help define, or redefine, and help make connections that you may have not previously noticed.
Overall, I would say that I didn’t realize anything new or outstanding. By glossing the text it just helped me to better understand the material and some of the connections that the author was trying to make the audience look at. Prior to class, for example, I was under of what the word “pseudo (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pseudo meant. In my first time reading it, I knew that he was using the term “pseudo mistake”, so I understood it was some type of mistake. What “glossing the text” helped me do was to realize that it was a fake mistake, something the author was doing purposely to grab the readers attention. In general, this essay was a pretty easy read and did not have many unknown words. If this were to be harder with more difficult words then “glossing the text” would be infinitely helpful.
I could easily see how entering the text with a better understanding of the term “pseudo-mistakes” would impact your second read.
Thank you for your reflection.