Critical reading and writing for postgraduates /
Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral presentations, this proven guide helps you develop...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
SAGE Publications,
[2021]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
| Series: | Student success.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Becoming a critical reader and self-critical writer. What it means to be critical
- Making a critical choice
- A first look: interrogating abstracts
- Getting started on critical reading
- Getting started on self-critical writing
- Creating a comparative critical summary
- Developing your writing skills to communicate effectively
- Part two. Developing an in-depth analysis. A mental map for navigating the literature
- Tools for thinking and ways of thinking
- Reasons for conducting the research
- Knowledge claims and their key characteristics
- Developing a critical analysis of a text
- A worked example of a critical analysis
- Developing your argument in writing a critical review of a text
- Part three. Putting your critical reviews to work. Focusing and building up your critical literature review
- Integrating critical literature reviews into your dissertation
- Critical literature reviews in alternative dissertation structures
- Tools for structuring a dissertation
- Using the literature in research papers, oral presentations and posters
- Developing advanced writing skills.