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1. Dr Marco Angelini,
UCL Transition Programme
With thanks to Dr Colleen McKenna for kind
permission in reproducing her material in this
presentation
Approaches to critical
reading and writing
2. Outline for today
Introduction
Considering your writing practices
Reading as part of writing
Writing as part of thinking
Planning
Organising written work
Looking at text
Finding time to write
11. Critical reading (and how
it benefits your writing)
Helps you determine what is and
what is not a robust piece of
research and writing in your field
Helps you identify where existing
research has left a gap that your
work could fill
Attention you pay to writing of others
helps you become more self-aware
of your own written work:
– Sufficient evidence to back up claims;
argumentation/reasoning; becoming
alert to your assumptions and how they
affect your claims
Wallace and Wray, 2006
13. Critical reading? Some
possible approaches
How do you go about reading an
academic text?
Use parts of the text: abstract,
contents, index, sub-headings,
graphs, tables, introduction and
conclusion
Skim to get the gist of the argument
Read with questions in mind
14. Critical reading? Some
possible approaches
Make notes/mind map/ use
highlighter
Write a summary in your own words
Write a brief critical response
Keep note of bibliographic details
16. As a critical reader, one evaluates
the attempts of others to
communicate with and convince
their target audience by means of
developing an argument;
As a writer, one develops one's own
argument, making it as strong and
as clear as possible, so as to
communicate with and convince
one's target audience.
– Wallace and Wray, 2006
17. Free writing
Way of using writing as a tool for
thinking
Allows you to write without
constraints.
To do it –
Write continuously, in complete
sentences, anything that occurs to
you.
18. Free writing
Please write down EITHER
1. An idea / theme from your field
OR
2. Use the topic:
‘what I enjoy about writing…’
Use a free writing technique to write
anything at all that occurs to you
about this topic.
This writing will not be shown to
anyone else.
19. Planning (Sharples)
Plans should be flexible
Through the writing process a deeper
understanding of topic is gained – thus,
planning is increasingly out of step as
writing develops:
– “The act of writing brings into being ideas
and intentions that the writer never had at
the start of the task or that could not be
expressed in any detail.”
.
20. Plans
Free writing
Notes/sketches
Idea lists
– Ideas on post-it notes
Mind map
Skeleton paper with
sub-headings
Outline
Draft text
Adapted from
Sharples, 1999
21.
22. What techniques do you use to
develop ideas in your writing
and/or signpost an argument?
23. Developing/sustaining
argument
‘proving’ the thesis statement or
controlling argument
Signposting argument (Giving the
reader cues; anticipating/referring
back)
Using words which signal transition or
development – “However”,
“Nevertheless”, “Thus”, “Therefore”,
“Despite”
Illustrating theoretical positions with
concrete examples
Generalising from a particular set of
findings if possible
Using subheadings
Using/responding to counterarguments
and examples
Anticipate next paragraph at end of
previous one
24. Signposting and making
transitions
Links between paragraphs – pick up point
from the end of a paragraph at the start of next
one.
Conjunctions to express different kinds of
meaning relations
– Temporal: when, while, after, before, then
– Causative: because, if, although, so that,
therefore
– Adversative: however, alternatively, although,
nevertheless, while
– Additive: and, or, similarly, incidentally
Signposting through pronouns - this, these,
those, that, they, it, them
Adverbs: Firstly, secondly, etc
Illustrative: For example, in illustration, that is
to say,
26. Citation
Examples of Citing
• The hip bone is confirmed to be connected to
the thigh bone (Funny Bones, 1989).
• The cytoskeletal network acts like the strong
bars within a scaffolding (Alberts et al., 1998)
• Slavic-Smith (2006) postulated three
classifications for nucleoli in neurons
• It was shown in 2006 by Take That, that a
successful comeback tour was possible [1].
28. Writing tips
Write a sentence for each paragraph you want
to write – you can then move them about easily
to form thread of argument
Index tag the main points you want to use in
your references, so they can be found easily
while writing
Write the introduction last
Write the conclusion first
Read what you have written aloud to see if it
sounds right
Find best environment for you – when and
where do you work best
Take a break before trying to do your final check
Use a writing checklist
29. Making time for writing
Write throughout the course
Do free writing as frequently as
possible
Snack and binge writing (Rowena
Murray)
Writing groups
Don’t wait until you feel ‘ready’ to
write…
30. Writing for learning
Read regularly in the field. Find writers
whose work you admire and study what
and how they do things.
View writing as part of a process rather
than a product
Find models of good writing in your
discipline – analyse it; ask what works
and what doesn’t; consider writing
style; vocabulary; techniques –
metaphor; explanation; signposting
Reflect on your own writing practices
Keep a notebook or learning journal
Explore free writing
31. To sum up…
1. Asked ‘what type of writer are
you’? What are your writing
practices?
2. What are your approaches to
reading? How might you link
reading and writing?
3. Free writing as a means of
generating ideas
4. Thought about structure of the
essay at the paragraph level and
the overall level
5. Tried to relate these ideas back
to the outline.