Personally, I see a lot of positive effects of re-reading and re-annotating a text after it has already been done once before. Having the opportunity to re-read and re-annotate “See through words” by Michael Erard showed me that when I look over a text a second time after reading it once, I can realize a lot more detail in the text compared to the first time I read it, as well as get a better general understanding of the context and purpose of the text itself. I also noticed some words that I didn’t understand the first time a read the text. I was able to “gloss over” the text and look up words or concepts that I didn’t really understand. This definitely helped in the overall grasping of the text because even looking up one word in a sentence can change the entire meaning. Take for example “psycholinguistic research” I didn’t understand that it was research in the psychology of language and it changes the importance of that certain sentence from one that I skimmed over, to a sentence that contained a lot of valuable information.

When reading “See through words” a second time, I noticed a lot more detail in the text compared to reading it the first time. I was able to annotate the text a lot more because I understood the general purpose of the text from reading it the first time, and I could make comments that I knew made sense. Also, I noticed that some of the things that I didn’t understand in the context the first time, I was able to grasp after reading the text a second time. Finally, I noticed that I was able to put all the unnoticed details together that I understood the second time I read the text and I was able to get a better general understanding of the purpose of “See through words” and what the author, Michael Erard” was trying to communicate to his readers.