Critical reading and writing for postgraduates / Mike Wallace and Alison Wray
Imprint
London : Sage, 2011
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
x, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Becoming a critical reader and self-critical write : What it means to be critical ; Making a critical choice ; Getting started on critical reading ; Getting started on self-critical writing ; Creating a comparative critical summary -- Developing an in-depth analysis : The key to a mental map for exploring the literture ; The argument component of your mental map ; More components: knowledge, literature, intellectual projects ; Developing a critical analysis of a text ; A worked example of critical analysis ; Developing your argument in writing a critical review of a text -- Putting your critical reviews to work : Focusing and building up your critical literrature review ; Integrating critical literature review into your dissertation ; Tools for structuring a disertation ; Using the literature in research papers and oral presentations