SESSION 6

STUDY SKILLS

24/11/15

Nahielly Palacios

Discuss with a classmate and answer

What does being critical mean? ___________________________________________

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Act. 1 Explore the link and summarise your thoughts in a mind map.

http://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/learning-objects/mle/being-critical/story_content/external_files/cheat-sheet.pdf

Insert your mind map here:

Act. 2 Open the pdf file and answer the question:

http://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/learning-objects/mle/evaluating-sources/story_content/external_files/six-men.pdf

How can we be sure that the source we are using is reliable, objective and that it is relevant to our topic?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Act. 3 Do you remember Bruce paper? (Literature Review Session 3).

Go back to the article and use the six-men guide to produce an analysis of this paper. Complete the table.

Reliability Objectivity Relevance

What?

Why?

When?

How?

Where?

Who?

Act. 4 Circulate the notes you have made for the article you chose and

Provide suggestions/ideas to your classmates about how she/he can improve her/his

notes.

write a short 2 or 3 paragraph summary that critiques the paper you brought to the session.