critical thinking study skills academic writing reading (higher education)
Genre
Scientific literature/Ғылыми әдебиет/Научная литература
Summary
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
Contents
Part one: Becoming a critical reader and self-critical writer: What it means to be critical -- Making a critical choice -- Getting started on critical choice -- Getting critical on critical reading -- Getting started on self-critical writing -- Creating a comparative critical summary -- Part two: Developing an In-Depth Analysis: The key to a mental map for exploring the literature -- The argument components: Knowledge, literature, intellectual projects -- Developing a critcal 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 -- Tools for structuring a dissertation -- Using the literature in research papers and oral presentation
