Study Skills
Critical thinking and writing
Critical thinking and writing
Have you received feedback suggesting you need to be more critical in your assignments? Are you baffled when asked to write critically or to critically evaluate a theory or policy etc? If so, the following information/links will help you to understand how to approach this: in order to write more critically you need to develop your critical thinking skills and then apply these to your writing...
- What is critical thinking?
- How do I think more critically?
- A critical thinking checklist
- What is critical writing?
- What is the difference between descriptive and critical writing?
- What are the different types of academic argument used in critical writing?
- Tips for writing a critical essay
Further resources:
Contact the University writer in residence for a 1-2-1 appointment to help to develop your critical writing skills
Cottrell, Stella. (2005) Critical thinking skills. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Also see Cottrell's self-evaluation tool 'Evaluating your writing for critical thinking' in the above book, p.196
Williams, K. (2009) Getting critical. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
More online resources available on the LearnHigher website