1- PART ONE: BECOMING A CRITICAL READER AND SELF-CRITICAL WRITER What It Means to Be Critical Making a Critical Choice Getting Started on Critical Reading Getting Started on Self-Critical Writing Creating a Comparative Critical Summary PART TWO: DEVELOPING AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS The Key to a Mental Map for Exploring the Literature The Argument Component of Your Mental Map More Components: Knowledge, Literature, Intellectual Projects Developing a Critical Analysis of a Text A Worked Example of a Critical Analysis Developing Your Argument in Writing a Critical Review of a Text PART THREE: PUTTING YOUR CRITICAL REVIEWS TO WORK Focusing and Building up your Critical Literature Review Integrating Critical Literature Reviews into Your Dissertation Tools for Structuring a Dissertation Using the Literature in Research Papers and Oral Presentations Appendices Abridged article: 'One word or two?' Abridged article: 'Sharing leadership of schools through teamwork' Blank form for the Critical Analysis of a text Logic Checklist: developing a logical overall argument in a dissertation.

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