Study skills: Critical thinking - building and evaluating academic argument
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Online
The ability to evaluate other peoples’ academic argument and to build your own academic arguments in your work is essential to success in your studies. This session will consider what is meant by academic argument; and how to critique other peoples’ positions in your reading and how to construct a sound academic argument in your writing/speaking. An engagement with academic argument is crucial to avoiding feedback such as ‘too descriptive, more analysis is needed’ or ‘some knowledge and understanding, but where is the analysis/argument’.
This workshop is run in conjunction with the 'Critical thinking for university' workshop which can also booked on the events booking system.
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This online workshop is delivered via Microsoft Teams. You will receive a confirmation in your email inbox after you register for the workshop, and the Teams link will be available about an hour before the start of the workshop. It's intended for enrolled Birkbeck students only.
Many of our workshops are repeated numerous times throughout the academic year. Recordings and resources workshops are also available via this link to the Birkbeck Study Skills Moodle module (student login required). https://moodle.bbk.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=7881
The full listing of Study Skills workshops for this term can be viewed here. For 1-to-1 study support, find out more about the helpdesk via this link, or about subject-specific tutors and resources via this link.
Contact name: Sara Steinke
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