Unit 3 WK 4 pg. 3 of 4

Guidelines for Analyzing a Text and Developing a Study Guide

A Writer's Reference offers a useful chart in section A1-e for analyzing a text. These questions might seem familiar to you, as they are questions often asked by your teachers in class discussions. They include some of the standard elements we want to identify when looking closely at a text.

Analysis and the steps involved in analysis are part of the important aspects of critical reading.

When you develop a study guide of critical reading strategies, your goal is to summarize the importance of critical reading, and then offer an outline of critical reading strategies--the key strategies, like annotating, and perhaps some of the smaller steps in each of those key strategies--using the formal outline structure. 

The next page will offer you an example of a Study Guide made for a text sample. Study guides can also be made for a subject, such as the one you'll be working on with your cohort.

Take a look at the formal outline structure, the summary and closing thoughts, the discussion questions and so forth. Your Study Guide should follow this same structure.

Make it a useful endeavor for yourself so that the study guide can be an item reused as you move through this course and your future courses.