Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates

by Alison Wray (Author), ProfessorMikeWallace (Author), ProfessorAlisonWray (Author), Mike Wallace (Author), Mike Wallace (Author), Alison Wray (Contributor)

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  2011

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  'Written in a clear and straightforward fashion that is guaranteed to make you think, as well as encouraging constructive and engaging modes of writing that will improve your connection to your audience.' - Professor Graham Crow, University of Southampton
  

  How do you respond to adverts? Do you believe what they say, or look for a hidden agenda?

  Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. It may seem difficult at first, but you may already be a more critical reader than you think!

  This guide helps you develop both the ability to critically ask questions, and a reflective and critical approach to your own research and writing. Broken down into three parts, it builds up your skills and confidence through focused activities that progressively develop your ability to critically read and write.

  New to this 2nd edition:

  • A range of subject specific examples from areas including linguistics, education, business and management
  • Commentaries on using e-resources and features of e-research
  • New online resources including worksheet templates, chapter activities and free access to journal articles.

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  2006

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  '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.