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Level 4 Diploma in Business Management

Inductive and deductive reasoning

BM401 · Academic Writing and Research Skills — Week 13 of 16

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Week13 of 16
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This week’s topics

Inductive and deductive reasoning

  1. Inductive uses generalisation
  2. Deductive uses known evidence and information

What you will be able to do

  • 4.2 Differentiate between inductive and deductive reasoning.

Study materials

Further resources

  • Writing Guide, 11.1: Developing Your Sense of Logic · PDF · OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook (2021), 11.1: reasoning and spotting weak arguments, pp. 352–355 · for registered students
  • Improving the development of students' research questions and hypotheses · Open-access article · Strangman & Knowles (2012), International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. How introductory students learned to write research questions. · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: What academic research and writing is: seeking the truth an…
  • Week 2: Academic writing conventions: academic language, paragraphs…
  • Week 3: Paraphrasing, summarising and writing to a word count
  • Week 4: Types of research (descriptive, associational, intervention…
  • Week 5: Sources of information and evidence: journals, textbooks, c…
  • Week 6: The research process: primary and secondary research
  • Week 7: What critical thinking is: a systematic way to evaluate arg…
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Critical thinking skills: critical reading, analysis, inter…
  • Week 10: Why critical thinking matters in research: creativity, lang…
  • Week 11: Evaluating an argument: coherence, testing the evidence and…
  • Week 12: What makes a reliable academic argument: evidence, premise …
  • Week 13: Inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Week 14: Building a logical argument structure for a given topic
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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