Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates

✍ Scribed by Mike Wallace, Alison Wray

• Publisher: Sage Publ.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Sage Study Skills
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
How to Use this Book......Page 9
Author Biographies......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Part One: Becoming a Critical Reader and Self-Critical Writer......Page 14
1. What it Means to be Critical......Page 16
2. Making a Critical Choice......Page 27
3. Getting Started on Critical Reading......Page 42
4. Getting Started on Self-Critical Writing......Page 57
5. Creating a comparative critical summary......Page 67
Part Two: Developing an In-Depth Analysis......Page 80
6. The Key to a Mental Map for Exploring the Literature......Page 82
7. The Argument Component of your Mental Map......Page 93
8. More Components: Knowledge, Literature, Intellectual Projects......Page 103
9. Developing a Critical Analysis of a Text......Page 120
10. A Worked Example of a Critical Analysis......Page 130
11. Developing your Argumentin Writing a Critical Review of a Text......Page 148
Part Three: Putting your Critical Reviews to Work......Page 160
12. Focusing and Building up your Critical Literature Review......Page 162
13.Integrating Critical Literature Reviews into your Dissertation......Page 180
14. Tools for Structuring a Dissertation......Page 199
15. Using the Literature in Research Papers and Oral Presentations......Page 210
Appendices......Page 222
Appendix 1......Page 224
Appendix 2......Page 235
Appendix 3......Page 250
Appendix 4......Page 260