Critical reading and writing for postgraduates

Focusing on critical reading and self-critical writing, this book is suitable for postgraduate students and early-career academics. It contains tools for analysing texts and structuring critical reviews, and incorporates exercises and worked examples drawn from the social sciences

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallace, Mike
Other Authors: Wray, Alison
Language:English
Published: Thousands Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, c2006.
Series:Sage study skills
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2005936728-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2005936728-t.html
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300 |a xiii, 223 p.:   |b ill.;   |c 25 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. What it means to be critical -- 2. Making a critical choice -- 3. Getting started on critical reading -- 4. Getting started on self-critical writing -- 5. Creating a comparative critical summary -- 6. A mental map for exploring the literature -- 7. Components of your mental map -- 8. Developing a critical analysis of a text -- 9. A worked example of a critical analysis -- 10. Developing your argument in writing a critical review of a text -- 11. Focusing and building up your critical literature review -- 12. Integrating critical literature reviews into your dissertation -- 13. Tools for structuring a dissertation -- 14. Building your academic career on critical reading and self-critical writing 
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