ABSTRACT
The most obvious place to begin taking a critical approach in your university work is with your reading. The best students and healthcare practitioners are critical readers, so Chapter 3 focuses on this particular skill. Beginning with less academic texts, critical questions are introduced as a way of appraising the value and credibility of sources of evidence. This same technique is then applied to research papers, graphs and other scholarly literature. The chapter considers the use of critical appraisal frameworks and provides tools to assist students in synthesising literature – bringing together the themes and findings of several, different sources.
