When you read there are 3 main questions to ask yourself: what, how and why? So if you haven’t got a clue, how do you start? By breaking down the assignment into something manageable and building from there. Please remember that the answer lies in the text itself – just look at the words and how they’re used, ask yourself why the writer has decided to write the text this way. Textual analysis is just what it says it is – analysis or scrutiny of the text, looking at what you read in detail rather than superficially.Ĭlose reading is how you do it – you read carefully, as opposed to reading superficially as quickly as possible to get to the end of a book you don’t want to read! If the phrase ‘close reading’ or ‘textual analysis’ terrifies you then just call it something else: reading! Like so many academic things it sounds impossible to begin with. Again not good – see that deadline thing. Not good – panic breeds paralysis and you no doubt have a deadline. So your lecturer has asked you for a ‘close analysis’ of a piece of text.
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