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Being Critical
As an academic writer, you are expected to be critical of the sources that you use. This essentially means questioning what you read and not necessarily agreeing with it just because the information has been published. Being critical can also mean looking for reasons why we should not just accept something as being correct or true. This can require you to identify problems with a writer's arguments or methods, or perhaps to refer to other people's criticisms of these. Constructive criticism goes beyond this by suggesting ways in which a piece of research or writing could be improved. ...... being against is not enough. We also need to develop habits of constructive thinking. Edward de Bono
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A more comprehensive study would include all the groups of .... A better study would examine a large, randomly selected sample of societies with .... A much more systematic approach would identify how X interacts with other variables that are believed to be linked to ....
analysis (of X), examination (of X), study (of X), survey (of X), investigation (into Y),
found .... Smith (2012) was/were able to Jones et al. show that .... (2012) concluded that ....
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