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Building Your Argument: A Guide To Postgraduate Writing Skills, Paddy O'Toole

Shannon Research Press

Building your argument: A guide to postgraduate writing skills is aimed at helping postgraduate students learn the skills relating to their study. It outlines principles derived from study into what postgraduates are taught about academic writing, compared with what they need to know. Building your argument: A guide to postgraduate writing skills is designed to help students understand the task of completing a piece of academic writing that includes or is based on a literature review. Academic writing generally requires the writer to:

• focus the work to argue for particular conclusions;

• gather evidence to support those conclusions;

• …