Analytical Questions for Reading

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The following is a list of analytical questions designed to get you to unlock the meaning of the readings.  Responding to readings in your journals and having to read the essays carefully in order to respond is often enough for you to “get” the meaning of the essays.  If you are having problems with meaning or understanding how the essays work to develop that reading, these questions might help you focus on meaning and how it’s made in the essays.

1. In one sentence, what is the author’s main point?  Is it stated in the essay or is it
    implied?  Where is it stated?  How do you know that’s the main point?  Why did the
    author write this?

2. Who is the author’s audience for this essay (the headnotes might help you figure out its
    original intended audience)?  Did you feel the author was addressing you or did you
    feel left out?  What specific things made you feel included or excluded?

3. What personality does the author present to the reader?  Is he or she likable or not?
    Does the author see the reader as an equal or as someone lesser than he or she?

4. Make an outline of the essay, including your guess at the thesis statement.  What
    section of the essay did you like best?  Why?  Look at the outline.  Does the
    organization make sense?  Why or why not?  Did any information need to be added or
    could any have been taken out?

5. Look at the introduction.  How does it attempt to capture your interest?  Did it?

6. Pick your favorite or least liked section of the essay and examine at least one of the
    paragraphs.  Does the paragraph have a topic sentence – a sentence that tells the reader
    what the paragraph is going to be about?  Where is it or how is it implied?  Does the
    paragraph give you the information you expect?

7. Look at the end of the essay.  Do you feel satisfied when you’ve finished reading?
    Why or why not?

8. What words, terms, or people’s names in this essay were new to you?  How did it
    make you feel when you came across something you weren’t familiar with?  Did the
    new words and terms make it difficult for you to understand the essay?



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