Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (Student Success)

Excellent material for PG studies

This book sits on my desk, filled with little flags and I have all the forms on my computer. It has provided so much information and structure and just plain HELP towards my postgrad studies. Get it - you NEED it. I wish I had known this stuff when I was doing my GCSEs (well 'O' levels in my case!). The book is readable for any age and interesting and contains so much I wish I had known years ago. It fits very well with "A student's Guide to Methodology", also on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Students-Guide-Methodology-Cathy-Nutbrown/dp/141292913X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308816774&sr=1-1

Although the text is fundamentally targeted at post graduate students it is a valuable text for any academic wishing to enhance their critical reading and writing skills. The text is highly structured and needs to be read from beginning to end in order to fully benefit from the methods presented. For undergraduate students looking to get higher grades the text gets you thinking more deeply about criticality and for the seasoned academic it confirms much of what you already do, is likely to add some new ways of thinking and offers a range of different structures with which to approach critical reading and writing. The structured development of theory and application to examples of articles through the use of 'the mental map' approach clarifies the intended use of theory through illustration. The text culminates in applying the skills and theory developed throughout the text to a doctoral level dissertation. However, the principles can be usefully applied by any student, researcher or higher education lecturer. Overall an excellent text of great value to a wide range of academics that clarifies a potentially mystical issue of the nature of criticality. Although the author acknowledges the limited treatment of the philosophical positions due to the complexity of the topic I feel that the text would benefit from further development of this fundamental underpinning issue. However, this should not detract from the great value to be gained through adopting the ideas and skills developed.

Perspicacious vision for the mind searching fine print and culling pearls in between the lines

This book was invaluable to me doing my MA and is still something I go back to very often as a PhD student. It contains thorough and comprehensible ways to approach critical reading, structuring your writing, and constructing arguments logically. I would highly recommend this to any student!

I studied Geology/ Marine Geoscience and this didn't fit my course.

A very good text to improve your postgraduate critical writing and reading skills. Easy to understand text that move my writing skills from D to B level. I recommend the book for any student struggling with academic writing skills or desire to improve on the it.......

I have found this book to be helpful and relatively easy to understand. I would recommend it for just before starting a postgrad course, as once you start your course you may not have time to look through it. Particularly good if you are not much of a critical thinker.

This is a well-written text for academic writing classes.

Oh my goodness, it's been 12 years since I completed my last degree. I ordered this book and the author opened my mind to another level of graduate writing. It's a keeper!

Great and advanced book. I find it very helpful for my Master's Thesis.

Excellent, highly recommended to me, now to benefit.

I am working on my doctorate, which is a whole different world than my graduate degree was - you'll find this handy!