Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (Sage Study Skills Series) - Couverture souple

Wallace, Mike; Wray, Alison

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849205620 ISBN 13 : 9781849205627

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

In Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates Second Edition, the authors show students how to read critically and how to write using critical techniques. This book is a 'must-have' resource for postgraduate students and early-career academics. It has been expanded and updated to include:

• A range of examples encompassing disciplinary areas including linguistics, education, business and management
• Commentaries on using e-resources and features of e-research
• New and additional material available online including access to journal articles

This book is for postgraduate students, methods course tutors and researchers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Alison Wray is Emerita Research Professor of Language and Communication at Cardiff University. One of her main research areas is lexical storage and processing, particularly formulaic expressions, applied to language learning, evolution of language and language disability. She has also extensively researched communication in the context of dementia. Her major monographs, Formulaic Language and the Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries (Oxford University Press, 2008), and The Dynamics of Dementia Communication (Oxford University Press, 2020), are internationally acclaimed and award-winning. She has also written the scripts for three animated films used for training dementia carers. She has a longstanding commitment to researcher training and the development of academic expertise and is lead author of the popular undergraduate textbook Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies (Hodder, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849205620
• ISBN 13: 9781849205627
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible