IRE103 Academic Skills

Week 6 - How to read critically? (Zuzana Ringlerova) 23. 10. 2017

First draft of your seminar paper is due (the first draft is optional). Upload your draft to the IS.
Required readings:

Barbour C. and Wright G.C. (2014). Keeping the Republic – Essentials: Power and Citizenship in American Politics, 6th edition, CQ Press, pp. 20-21.
Craswell, G.; Poore, M. (2012). Writing for Academic Success (2nd ed.).  New Delhi: SAGE Publications, pp. 38 – 40.

For the following texts, read the texts but do not answer the questions at the end of the text.
The Economist (2007)."Is torture ever justified? Terrorism and civil liberties." In Clued in to Politics by Christine Barbour and Matthew J. Streb (eds.), CQ Press, 2010, pp. 75-79.
Toobin J. (2013). "Edward Snowden is no hero." In Clued in to Politics by Christine Barbour and Matthew J. Streb (eds.), CQ Press, 2014, pp. 167-169.
Bittman M. 2012. "What is Food?" In Keeping the Republic – Essentials: Power and Citizenship in American Politics, 6th edition, Barbour C. and Wright G.C. (eds.) CQ Press, 2014, pp. 336-337.