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050 _aLB 2395.3 .W35 2021
100 _aWallace, Mike
_eauthor
245 0 _aCritical reading and writing for postgraduates /
_cMike Wallace and Alison Wray
260 _aThousand Oaks, California :
_bSage Publications, Incorporation,
_cc2021
300 _axvii, 299 pages ;
_c25 cm.
365 _bUSD29
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aPart one: Becoming a critical reader and self-critical writer: What it means to be critical -- Making a critical choice -- Getting started on critical choice -- A First Look: Interrogating Abstracts -- Getting started on critical reading -- Getting started on self-critical writing -- Creating a comparative critical summary -- 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 crtical review of a text -- Part Three: Putting your critical review 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.
520 _aFocusing 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
650 _aCRITICAL THINKING -- STUDY AND TEACHING
700 _aWray, Alison
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