Critical Reading for Self-Critical Writing:

Four Types of Literature

1. theoretical - ideas and models for interpreting and explaining

practice

2. research - systematic enquiries into policy and practice by

professional researchers or practitioners, results are made
public

3. practice - by informed professionals who evaluate others

practice and by practitioners who evaluate their practice

4. policy - policy-makers desired changes in practice (negative

evaluation of present)

Five Intellectual Projects

Project Rationale Value stance Typical question

Under-standIng Understand Disinterested What happens and

through theory and why?
research

Critical evaluation Evaluate through Critical What is wrong with

theory and what happens?
research

Action Inform policy- Positive towards How effective are

makers and policy and actions to improve
practitioners improving practice practice?
through research
and evaluation

Instrum- Improve practice Positive towards How may this

entalism through training policy and programme
and consultancy improving practice improve practice?

Reflexive action Improve own Critical of practice, How effective is my

practice through positive about practice? How may
evaluation and improving I improve?
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Developing a Critical Analysis of a Text

These Questions Help to You Identify The Significance of a Text:

what to do when you start reading?

to consider the context

to look at how writing is presented

to analyze arguments and evidence and

to compare and contrast with what other writers have written about.

> who is the author and when was this written?

> was it written in response to another text?
> what is the author saying?
>what are the main points of the text?

is every point relevant?

which parts do I agree with and why?

which parts do I disagree with and why?

what are the strengths of this text?

what are the weaknesses?

> are any words and phrase ambiguous?

> is there a clear conclusion?

Reflection

Here the writer wants to share about some tips for readers to be a critical
reader and become a critical writer.
For the readers, the writer wants to share about sets of tools which is used to
be a critical reader.

The writer summarize the tools as the picture

Theoretical Research
Developed through systematic
reflection on the social world

Tools for Practice

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social ideologies s the
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