Purpose
Generating questions of your own is an imp
Critical reading questions
Purpose
Generating questions of your own is an important critical reading skill and is a useful process for improving the quality of your academic writing and research in a way that is most meaningful to you.
In addition, the assignment will facilitate your engagement with the course material for each week and help you get the most out of the lectures and tutorials.
Assignment descriiption
In this task you will create TWO questions about each reading from the four attached reading EIGHT questions in total. 2 from each reading. 150 to 200 words per question, including a quote for this question pertains to from the relevant reading.
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Questions must be directly related to the readings. To demonstrate this, you must include a short quote from a reading that your question is reflecting on. Your questions must relate to both the quote and the wider reading itself. Questions should be open-ended and allow for analytical answers, rather than factual ones.
For the Reading 4 one question must around..,”is it another form of capitalism or more like mercantilism?”
Some prompts on designing questions
• What is the article’s main argument, do you agree or disagree?
• What assumptions are being made by the text, and what is possibly being left out?
• How well does the article achieve its stated aims?
• What conclusions are being drawn by the text and do they match the empirics presented?
• What are the implications of the text if we take its conclusions seriously?
• How does my personal experience relate to the text and lead me to evaluate its claims?
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