Activities: Strategic Reading

Try Out Strategic Reading Skills

• Choose an academic article that you need to read. The article could be for one of your classes, or a literature review for your research team or your own research project.
• Look at your article. Consider what your level of knowledge on the overall topic is. 
• Have you read articles like this before?
• How well do you understand the discipline and the language used to describe it?
• Are you new to this topic area and its disciplinary language?
• Why are you reading this material (for a class, a project)?
• Try out one of the strategic reading strategies outlined in this tutorial module. After reading your article, reflect on these questions: How did the reading strategy you chose differ from how you’d normally approach this reading? Did you notice new things using this strategy that you wouldn’t have caught otherwise? Do you use a strategy we didn’t discuss here?

Congratulations! You’ve finished the Strategic Reading module. Check it off the Tutorial Action Plan!