Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates - Couverture souple

Mike Wallace; Alison Wray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1412961823 ISBN 13 : 9781412961820

Editeur : Sage Publications Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Become skilled and confident at critical reading and writing, developing a more thorough critical approach to improve your research and writing.

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À propos des auteurs

Mike Wallace is a Professor of Public Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, where he teaches postgraduate courses on research methods. He was formerly an Associate Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), responsible for research capacity building in the management field, and also 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. Most recently, he is lead author of a major monograph Developing Public Service Leaders: Elite Orchestration, Change Agency, Leaderism and Neoliberalization (Oxford University Press 2023). He is co-author of Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (4th edition 2021).

Alison Wray is a Research Professor of Language and Communication at Cardiff University. Her research concerns the modelling of lexical storage and processing, particularly in relation to formulaic phrases, and it has been applied to language learning, evolution of language and language disability. Her two monographs Formulaic Language and the Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries (Oxford University Press, 2008) are internationally acclaimed. Her current research focusses on dementia communication. Her 2020 book The Dynamics of Dementia Communication won the 2021 book prize of the British Association for Applied Linguistics and came second in the biennial book award of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. She has also published Why Dementia Makes Communication Difficult: A Guide to Better Outcomes (2021), aimed at people with dementia, their families and carers. She has a longstanding commitment to researcher training, including the developing of academic expertise. She is lead author of the popular undergraduate research methods textbook Projects in Linguistics (Hodder, 2012) and co-author of Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (4th edition 2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sage Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1412961823
• ISBN 13: 9781412961820
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible