Alison Wray, Mike Wallace

Gebundenes Buch

Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates

Beschreibung

Step into academic success with Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, your trusted companion for reviewing and writing convincingly about the research literature. This detailed guide takes you through the essentials: deciding what to read, developing techniques for evaluating the claims in texts, building strong arguments through structured literature reviews and dissertations, and writing convincingly for your readers and assessors. With practical tools, advice on using AI, and worked examples, this book provides everything you need for approaching academic work with a critical eye and a clear voice. You will learn: ¿ Strategies for critically reading and analysing academic texts. ¿ Step-by-step methods for developing convincing written arguments. ¿ Strategies for planning, structuring, and writing your literature reviews and dissertation. ¿ Ways of responding effectively to your supervisor's feedback. Supplemented by online self-study materials, this book is ideal for postgraduates in the social sciences and beyond, keen to develop their skills and academic confidence. Student Success is a series of essential guides for students of all levels. From how to think critically and write great essays to boosting your employability and managing your wellbeing, the Student Success series helps you study smarter and get the best from your time at university. 

Autor

Mike Wallace is a Professor of Public Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. From 2009 to 2012 he was the Economic and Social Research Council's Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development. His research on managing change in the public services is reported in many books and academic journals. He is co-author, with Eric Hoyle, of the book Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals, and Managerialism (Sage, 2005), lead editor, with Michael Fertig and Eugene Schneller, of the book Managing Change in the Public Services (Blackwell, 2007), and lead co-author, with Michael Reed, Dermot O¿Reilly, Jonathan Morris, Michael Tomlinson and Rosemary Deem, of the book Developing Public Service Leaders: Elite Orchestration, Change Agency, Leaderism, and Neoliberalization (Oxford University Press, 2023). His contribution to teaching at Cardiff centres on the design of postgraduate research programmes incorporating research methods training.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 170mm
• ISBN-13: 9781529668827
• ISBN-10: 1529668824
• Artikelnr.: 75932972