Activity

Review - what is 'critical thinking'?

Step 1

Try to write your own definition of critical thinking
How does this apply to your essay writing? How can you demonstrate to your marker that you have engaged in critical thinking while researching and writing your essay?
Then compare with the list given below

Thinking critically about what you have heard, read and discussed involves all of the following

What does crititcal thinking mean?
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Critical thinking means
making connections across your various sources starting to organise your source material into themes seeing if you can spot developments in theory, alternative perspectives, or contested areas (where your scholars directly disagree) noting down any ideas that are coming to mind that might help you to form an opinion, or directly relate to the question you have been set or to the particular question you have chosen

Getting down to detail

Here is a list of contents for this unit - each page includes some more information or activities to show you what critical thinking looks like in practice. We suggest you browse through the whole unit on first reading, but here are links to the subsections for future reference:

Moving on