PALx: Postgraduate Academic Literacy for Management and Business Students | WitsX on edX.org

Learn to critique, compare and apply academic resources and research

Studying management or business, and want to improve your academic skills? This course can help you engage with academic sources and kick start your own academic research.

Taught by leading Business School professors with a wealth of supervision experience, the course will guide you through the process of critiquing an academic article, drawing comparisons between different perspectives, and creating a persuasive narrative.

What You Will Learn
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