A Super Quick guide to critically analysing academic texts for your research and assignments.
Critical reading is the foundation of good research. Read Critically gives you the knowledge and tools you need to be able to extract meaning from texts and judge its quality, relevance and significance.
- Understand your assignment question
- Know how to think critically, and in turn read critically
- Write critically and ace your assignment.
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Section 1 What is critical reading? |
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Section 2 What does it mean to be critical? |
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Section 3 How can I understand the assignment question? |
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Section 4 How do I get from critical reading to critical writing? |
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Section 5 Are there different ways to understand interpretation? |
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Section 6 What is critical language? |
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Section 7 How do I know I'm ready for the next assignment? |
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Section 8 Where do I go from here? |
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| Final checklist: How to know you are done |
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Alex Baratta is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, teaching within the Manchester Institute of Education. Here he runs a writing center Write Away for the School of Environment, Education and Development. His initial teaching experience was in EFL and academic writing, experiences he has brought to five books he has written which are focused on study skills, such as essay writing and critical thinking. He has taught in Korea, England and his native USA, and also researches language and identity, linguistic rights, and linguistic prejudice. Alex has also been published in prestigious journals, such as World Englishes, and presented his research at international conferences in South Africa, Australia and Singapore, to include acting as a keynote speaker for a linguistic prejudice conference at the University of Sheffield in 2018.
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