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Critical Analysis Method

What is it about?
What? What is the context?
Description

What are the main points?

Where? Where did it occur?

When? When did it occur?

Who was involved?


Who? Who can it affect?
Who can it interest?

How did it occur?


How does it work in theory v/s practical?
How?
How does one factor affect others?
How do all the parts fit together?
Analysis

Why did it occur?


Why? Why this solution/suggestion/alternative?
Why not something else?

What if there were other problems?


What if there were other solutions?
What if?
What if other factors were added or removed?
What if this was wrong?

So what does this mean?


Is it significant?
Evaluation

So What? Is it convincing - why / why not?


Is it successful?
What are the implications?

How and where can this be applied elsewhere?


Is it transferable?
What next?
What can be learnt from it?
What needs to be done now?

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