Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates

This guide to critical reading and self-critical writing is a must-have resource for postgraduate students and early-career academics. Packed with tools for analyzing texts and structuring critical reviews, and incorporating exercises and examples drawn from the social sciences, the book offers step-by-step advice on how to:

• Read any text critically and analyze it in the depth appropriate to one's project
  
• Develop a self-critical approach to one's own academic writing
  
• Ask questions in order to evaluate authors' arguments
  
• Keep a review manageable by using focused review questions
  
• Structure a comparative review of multiple texts
  
• Build up a convincing argument
  
• Integrate critical literature reviews into a dissertation or thesis
  
• Make the transition from postgraduate to professional academic writer