Postgraduate Academic Literacy for Management and Business Students

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Syllabus

  • To identify academic and personal resources which support postgraduate research
  • How to critique an academic article
  • To compare and contrast different perspectives put forward from academic articles dealing with the same topic
  • To create a narrative which integrates perspectives from different academic sources; and argues for a conclusion
  • Cite academic sources

Prerequisite

Undergraduate degree recommended

Instructors

Terri Carmichael
Associate Professor of Management Education at the Wits Business School
Wits University

Nomusa Mazonde
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wits Business School
Wits University

Julie Courtnage
Lecturer and doctoral candidate
Wits University

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The University of the Witwatersrand is a South African academic institution located in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, in the historic Witwatersrand region. The university is nicknamed "Wits". It is the largest and most prestigious university in South Africa.

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