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
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| Language: | English |
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Thousands Oaks, California:
SAGE Publications,
c2006.
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| Series: | Sage study skills
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2005936728-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2005936728-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- 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