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Get the Inside Track to Critical Thinking & Analysis!
Become a better academic writer, communicate your research and articulate your ideas successfully whatever your discipline, prior knowledge or level.
Critical Thinking & Analysis will help you to develop and enhance the critical thinking skills that are a key element to successful academic writing. It contains advice and examples of students’ writing to illustrate common mistakes and to demonstrate how to produce effective critical discourse in your assignments, whatever your course of study. As university study requires students to demonstrate critical insight, this book shows you how to develop this skill by breaking down the thinking and writing processes into steps. This book will also help you to enhance your analytical and argumentation skills by adopting best practice in critical thinking. Your ability to plan and revise assignments effectively – and thus improve your grades - will also be enhanced by the explicit guidance on reading, writing, and thinking critically that this books provides. Get the inside track on:
- How to critique sources
- How to think critically
- Understanding how to organise ideas
- Constructing sound academic arguments
- Revising academic assignments
- Researching scholarly sources
- Preparing assignments for assessment
- Writing in a formal, academic style
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About the Authors Dr Mary Deane specialises in helping students at all levels to develop their academic writing skills. Her extensive experience includes the development of online referencing resources and research into writing pedagogies. She was presented with a Teaching Excellence Award in 2008 for her work with staff and student writers.
Dr Erik Borg has taught academic writing to students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the UK, China, and Oman for more than 10 years. He has developed and taught courses on teaching and researching academic writing for Master’s students and published extensively on academic writing.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Reading
Chapter 1: Everyday critical thinking
Chapter 2: Joining a conversation
Chapter 3: Building on scholarship
Part 2: Planning
Chapter 4: Components of critical thinking
Chapter 5: A strategy for analysis
Part 3: Writing
Chapter 6: Preparing to write
Chapter 7: Scholarly writing
Part 4: Reflection
Chapter 8: Reflective critical thinking
Chapter 9: Your career
Conclusion
References
Summary
This book is designed for students to use independently to enhance their critical thinking skills. It contains advice and examples of students’ writing to illustrate poor performance and demonstrate how to produce effective critical discourse. As university study requires students to demonstrate critical insight, this book shows how to develop this skill by breaking down the thinking and writing processes into steps. It also points out that critical thinking is valued in post-university employment and discusses how to prepare for professional writing.
