Activities: Strategic Reading

Try Out Strategic Reading

• Choose an academic article that you need to read. The article could be for one of your classes, a literature review for your research team or your own research project, etc.
• 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!