NSG 3301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3,4,5: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Research Question
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Chapter 3: critical reading strategies: overview of the research process. Abstract a brief comprehensive summary of a study at the beginning of an article. Assumptions accepted truths, key concepts and ideas, reasons and justifications, supporting examples, parallel experiences, implications and consequences, and any other structural features of the written text used to interpret and assess it accurately and fairly. Critical reading an active interpretation and objective assessment of an article, during which the reader is looking for key concepts, ideas, and justifications. Critical thinking rational examination of ideas, inferences, assumptions, principles, arguments, conclusions, issues, statements, beliefs, and actions. Critique process of objectively and critically evaluating the content of a research report for scientific merit and application to practice, theory, or education. Critiquing criteria the standards, appraisal guides, or questions used for objectively and critically evaluating a research article. Steps of the research process: qualitative an quantitative. Evidence informed practice requires you to be able to critically read.