Critical reading and writing for postgraduates /
Wallace, Mike,
Critical reading and writing for postgraduates / Mike Wallace, Alison Wray. - 2nd ed. - Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, 2011. - x, 252 p. : - Sage study skills. .
1. What It Means to Be Critical, p.3 --
2. Making a Critical Choice, p.14 --
3. A First Look: Interrogating Abstracts, p.28 --
4. Getting Started on Critical Reading, p.34 --
5. Getting Started on Self-Critical Writing, p.51 --
6. Creating a Comparative Critical Summary, p.61 --
PART TWO. DEVELOPING AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS p.73 --
7. A Mental Map for Navigating the Literature, p.75 --
8. Tools for Thinking and Ways of Thinking, p.84 --
9. Reasons for Conducting the Research, p.99 --
10. Knowledge Claims and Their Key Characteristics, p.106 --
11. Developing a Critical Analysis of a Text, p.123 --
12. A Worked Example of a Critical Analysis, p.133 --
13. Developing Your Argument in Writing a Critical Review of a Text, p.150 --
PART THREE. PUTTING YOUR CRITICAL REVIEWS TO WORK p.163 --
14. Focusing and Building Up Your Critical Literature Review, p.165 --
15. Integrating Critical Literature Reviews into Your Dissertation, p.182 - 16. Critical Literature Reviews in Alternative Dissertation Structures, p.203 --
17. Tools for Structuring a Dissertation, p.214 --
18. Us ing the Literature in Research Papers and Oral Presentations, p.232.
9781849205610 (hardback) 9781849205627 (pbk.)
Reading (Higher education)
Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Higher)
Critical reading and writing for postgraduates / Mike Wallace, Alison Wray. - 2nd ed. - Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, 2011. - x, 252 p. : - Sage study skills. .
1. What It Means to Be Critical, p.3 --
2. Making a Critical Choice, p.14 --
3. A First Look: Interrogating Abstracts, p.28 --
4. Getting Started on Critical Reading, p.34 --
5. Getting Started on Self-Critical Writing, p.51 --
6. Creating a Comparative Critical Summary, p.61 --
PART TWO. DEVELOPING AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS p.73 --
7. A Mental Map for Navigating the Literature, p.75 --
8. Tools for Thinking and Ways of Thinking, p.84 --
9. Reasons for Conducting the Research, p.99 --
10. Knowledge Claims and Their Key Characteristics, p.106 --
11. Developing a Critical Analysis of a Text, p.123 --
12. A Worked Example of a Critical Analysis, p.133 --
13. Developing Your Argument in Writing a Critical Review of a Text, p.150 --
PART THREE. PUTTING YOUR CRITICAL REVIEWS TO WORK p.163 --
14. Focusing and Building Up Your Critical Literature Review, p.165 --
15. Integrating Critical Literature Reviews into Your Dissertation, p.182 - 16. Critical Literature Reviews in Alternative Dissertation Structures, p.203 --
17. Tools for Structuring a Dissertation, p.214 --
18. Us ing the Literature in Research Papers and Oral Presentations, p.232.
9781849205610 (hardback) 9781849205627 (pbk.)
Reading (Higher education)
Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Higher)