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Informational Text Analysis Writing
Course Overview
This course focuses on the analysis of non-fiction texts, including informational, explanatory, and argumentative materials. It aims to strengthen students’ academic reading and analytical writing skills through structured training.
Students learn to identify key ideas, evaluate evidence, analyse language and structure, and understand how meaning is constructed in informational texts. The course emphasises logical analysis and clear written expression, laying a foundation for academic writing across disciplines.
Course Structure
· 15 modules
· 30 lessons
Course Content
1. Key ideas and speed reading
2. Facts and opinions
3. Reading and evidence
4. Note-taking for effective reading
5. Sentence and structure analysis
6. Compare and contrast
7. Research and synthesis
8. Tone, purpose, and audience
9. Rhetorical techniques
10. Visual text interpretation
11. News and magazine article analysis
12. Advertising, illustrations, graphics, and symbols
13. Reader’s response reflection
14. Intertextual reading strategies
15. Evaluating readers’ interpretations