Part One: Becoming a Critical Reader and Self-Critical Writer Chapter 1: What it Means to be Critical Chapter 2: Making a Critical Choice Chapter 3: A First Look: Interrogating Abstracts Chapter 4: Getting Started on Critical Reading Chapter 5: Getting Started on Self-Critical Writing Chapter 6: Creating a Comparative Critical Summary Chapter 7: Developing Your Writing Skills to Communicate Effectively Part Two: Developing an In-Depth Analysis Chapter 8: A Mental Map for Navigating the Literature Chapter 9: Tools for Thinking and Ways of Thinking Chapter 10: Reasons for Conducting the Research Chapter 11: Knowledge Claims and Their Key Characteristics Chapter 12: Developing a Critical Analysis of a Text Chapter 13: A Worked Example of a Critical Analysis Chapter 14: Developing Your Argument in Writing a Critical Review of a Text Part Three: Putting Your Critical Reviews to Work Chapter 15: Focusing and Building up your Critical Literature Review Chapter 16: Integrating Critical Literature Reviews into your Dissertation Chapter 17: Critical Literature Reviews in Alternative Dissertation Structures Chapter 18: Tools for Structuring a Dissertation Chapter 19: Using the Literature in Research Papers, Oral Presentations and Posters Chapter 20: Developing Advanced Writing Skills
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