RMF2010 Abstracts


Session: 34 - Wedneday 7th July AM (9.15 - 12.45)

Title: Critical Reading workshop

Name: Mike Wallace

Affiliation: Cardiff University


Abstract Details

This workshop provides support with learning how to become a critical reader of academic literature in social science fields and a self-critical writer of literature reviews, including those which form part of a thesis. The presenters are co-authors of the book 'Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates', published by Sage in 2006. The workshop will be based on material in the book. Participants will be invited to bring an academic article or chapter reporting research that they wish to engage with critically, and to try out conducting an in-depth critical analysis of it using frameworks drawn from the book.


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Presenter: Mike Wallace

Critical Reading for Self-Critical Writing: introduction to a structured approach for reviewing literature


Presentation details

1

Start time: 09:15

Presentation title: Linking constructively critical reading with self-critical academic writing, Engaging critically with 'front-line' texts - a critical synopsis, Using a mental map and structuring an in-depth critical analysis of a text

Author: Mike Wallace and Alison Wray

Affiliation:Cardiff University

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Start time: 11:15

Presentation title:Trying out the critical analysis of a text reporting research, Building up a comparative critical review and developing an argument

Author:Mike Wallace and Alison Wray

Affiliation:Cardiff University