Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (Sage Study Skills Series)

Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (Sage Study Skills Series)

by ProfessorMikeWallace (Author), ProfessorAlisonWray (Author)

Synopsis

'A systematic, coherent approach to developing critical reading and writing skills that are applicable to a range of different levels of analysis and types of reading and writing tasks. The authors are to be commended for the clarity of their writing and the way scaffolded advice and tasks are integrated into the text. The book could form the core text for a course on critical reading and writing and a useful reference tool for the academic recently entered upon writing for publication.' - Educate Journal

'A very clear, accessible introduction

that will be invaluable to

postgraduate students trying to

engage with reading and writing in a

critical way' - R.M. Lee, Professor of Social Research Methods, Royal Holloway University of London

This guide to critical reading and self-critical writing is a 'must-have' resource for postgraduate students and early-career academics. Packed with tools for analysing texts and structuring critical reviews, and incorporating exercises and worked examples drawn from the social sciences, the book offers step-by-step advice on how to:

read any text critically and analyse it in the depth appropriate to one's project

develop a self-critical approach to one's own academic writing

ask questions in order to evaluate authors' arguments

keep a review manageable by using focused review questions

structure a comparative review of multiple texts

build up a convincing argument

integrate critical literature reviews into a dissertation or thesis

make the transition from postgraduate to professional academic writer

Essential reading for novice researchers, the book will also be invaluable for supervisors, methods course tutors, and academic mentors who teach and support the development of critical reading and self-critical writing skills.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 20 Apr 2006

ISBN 10: 1412902223
ISBN 13: 9781412902229

Media Reviews
'A very clear, accessible introduction

that will be invaluable to

postgraduate students trying to

engage with reading and writing in a

critical way' - R.M. Lee, Professor of Social Research Methods, Royal Holloway University of London

Author Bio
Mike Wallace is a Professor of Public Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He is an Associate Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), responsible for research capacity building in the management field. He is also the Economic and Social Research Council's Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development. Mike is series editor of the Sage Learning to Read Critically series of books. His own research on managing change in the public services is reported in many books and academic journals. Alison Wray is a Research Professor of Language and Communication at Cardiff University. Her research concerns the modelling of lexical storage and processing, particularly in relation to formulaic phrases, and it has been applied to language learning, evolution of language and language disability. Her two monographs Formulaic Language and the Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries (Oxford University Press, 2008) are internationally acclaimed. Her current research is into dementia communication. She has a longstanding commitment to researcher training, including the developing of academic expertise. She is lead author of the popular undergraduate research methods textbook Projects in Linguistics (Hodder, 2012).