Critical Thinking and Academic Writing

This assignment focuses on the development and assessment of critical thinking skills within an academic context. Students are tasked with evaluating arguments presented in various texts, identifying potential biases or fallacies, and formulating their own well-supported responses. The emphasis is on demonstrating clear reasoning, analytical ability, and effective written communication.

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Executive summary
Critical Thinking is the ability of various user to analyze the thinking nature, provide
evidence of the ideas. It is a multi step process which can be defined as fast process
where an individual can observe , analyze and present their new ideas and add it all into
present understanding. The ultimate goal is to follow various logical steps and conclude
at a particular decision. The important points for decision-making are approach, save time,
better communication, decision –making and reason.
Critical thinking can be used for summing up of various scholar activity. It contains
many techniques that can be used for development of skills through time and experience.
Students from various universities must be taken in account in many ways to facilate
development of leaning outcomes.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Critical Thinking..............................................................................................................................5
List of Critical thinking...............................................................................................................6
Importance of teaching critical thinking......................................................................................7
Teaching Critical Thinking..........................................................................................................8
Tools Required For Technical Critical Thinking.........................................................................8
Critical Thinking and Academic Writing....................................................................................9
Critical Thinking and Academic Writing....................................................................................9
Assessing Critical Thinking.......................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Critical Thinking is the ability of various user to analyze the thinking nature,
provide evidence of the ideas. It is a multi step process which can be defined as fast
process where an individual can observe , analyze and present their new ideas and add it
all into present understanding (Jackson & Chapman, 2012). It can be applied in a large
number of regions such as reading, written work and discussions. It is a real life model on
which people can build more efficient problem solving skills which will ultimately
valuable for the organization. It will ultimately improve interpreting skills and problem solving
skills (Jackson & Chapman, 2012). The ultimate goal is to follow various logical steps and
conclude at a particular decision. The important points for decision-making are approach, save
time, better communication, decision –making and reason(Alsagoff et al., 2012)
Approach: With this critical thinking method one can develop awareness about
various new techniques of approaching a problem. It minimizes the use of standard problem
solving technique(Alsagoff et al., 2012)
Save time: Critical analysis help in saving time. It is relevant to know that all the
information helps in decision making, on the contrary one can differentiate between
relevant and irrelevant ones. Critical analysis helps in setting priority of time and resources
by analyzing essentiality of various process (Jackson & Chapman, 2012).
Improving Communication: It teaches people how to analyze and build evidence for any
source. It ultimately aims to produce effective communicator (Jackson & Chapman, 2012).
Decision making : It mainly works with critical thinking to make it more easier for
anyone. A person generally works with more analytics and leaves behind intuition and
guesswork (Alsagoff et al., 2012)

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Reason: It will help to become a more reasoned and appropriate problem solver.
One can run two types of reasoning that is inductive and deductive. The usage of the inductive
and deductive type depends on its usage. Prioritizing decision in various reasons and logic over
emotion or guesswork will ultimately led to effective problem solving (Arends, 2014).
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is nothing but a series of multistep process. It is defined as a fast
process where people can observe , judge and present new ideas and sum it to current
understanding. It can be applied in a variety of platform ranging from reading to
discussion (Halpern, 2014). It is not considered as a negative process in spite of the fact
that it has critical thinking has many criticism. It is more useful to link critical thinking with
various standards and criteria. It can be considered more than a problem which can be used
to build successful more efficiently decision making techniques which will ultimately
bring benefit to the organization.
It is focuses the application of logic for better and reasoned decision making.
Many times critical thinking is misjudged as criticism (Kim et al., 2013). It mainly follows a
sequential logical step and arrive at a appropriate conclusion. It also involves the
evaluation of various sources like data, facts, observed behaviors and research finding.
Good thinkers can draw conclusion from a set of data containing information for
making a solution of a problem and decision making (Kim et al. ,2013). Some examples
of critical thinking are, a plumber who uses critical thinking techniques to judge which
material is appropriate for a particular job, similarly a job seekers uses his critical
thinking to judge vacancies in various firms and then he decides the suitable organization
for his application (Halpern, 2014).

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Critical thinking is mainly considered as a process of putting questions to data
containing important information (Liu, Frankel & Roohr, 2014). For example when a student
reads the information in a textbook then he can put questions like what a leader or a
professor or his classmate says about a particular topic. The word logic is derived from
Greek word logike, which means art of reasoning (Halpern, 2014). By using a logic a person
can judge what is good or bad for him. It also helps in the distinction of good or bad
reasoning, truth and falsehood. By the help of logic one can evaluate new thinking’s and
to make good decisions (Arends, 2014). .
List of Critical thinking
Analysis: It refers to the ability of judging something and then one can
understand its meaning and its representations(Armstrong et al., 2015).
Clarification: It not only the ability to summarize information and to state in such
a way that it is easily understandable to people (Arends, 2014).
Evaluation: These skills are mainly related to accessing or judging the period of
an idea (Fairclough, 2014).
Explanation: Explanation can be considered similar to clarification and it mainly
focuses on the ability to clearly reveal information and even include ones perspective to
that particular data containing vital information (Armstrong et al., 2015).
Inference: This mainly focuses on the ability bring out conclusion from the
information that is provided to the people.
Interpretation: It mainly focuses on the understanding of required information. It also
infers to communicate the meaning of a information that is clearly understandable by
various audiences (Liu, Frankel & Roohr, 2014).

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Judgment: Similar to evaluation, judgment can be considered as an idea or piece
of important information (Fairclough, 2014).
Objectivity: It mainly focuses on evaluating an idea without biasing it further.
Problem Solving: It is an another important technique or skill that can be
considered for judging or analyzing of problem, generating a particular solution, its
implementation and after that accessing it ( Fairclough, 2014).
Reasoning: It refers thinking of a problem or question logically.
Importance of teaching critical thinking
Critical thinking can be consider as an important skill for fresh graduate to check
its necessity in workplace. During their research or study, students should use critical
thinking for development of their knowledge. It is also vital for students while making
decisions from variety of given choices while choosing activities for development of skill
and techniques (Dwyer, Hogan &Stewart, 2014). It enables students to take decision to
make an output for knowledge, developing techniques which is used by learner and
gradually decreases their dependency on other various University. When this type of critical
thinking is integrated with current knowledge then it can led to the formation of new
ideas and knowledge (Armstrong et al., 2015).
Critical thinking plays a key role in the life of other graduate techniques or
outcomes of learning such as solving of problem, making of important decision and
communication (Dwyer, Hogan &Stewart, 2014). Critical thinking should not be
misunderstanding with problem solving. Critical thinking is generally considered as an important
component of problem solving.

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Teaching Critical Thinking
Critical thinking can be easily taught to people. Teaching of critical thinking mainly
involves breaking down of processes. Each step must be explained and practiced which will
ultimately benefit the students (Dwyer, Hogan &Stewart, 2014). The academic plays a key role
as a facilitator to provide students to develop an understanding of critical thinking (McPeck,
2016). Then they must allow students a particular span of time for its practice and to receive
feedback from it (Moore, 2013).
Technical critical thinking mainly comprises of two parts, firstly providing students a
critical thinking process and secondly providing an opportunity to various students for the
application of this process. During set up of student task the following points of critical thinking
should be considered like it should be enough small to stop its effects on the student, should be
non-aggressive like it should not include topics where students are uncomfortable in expressing
their point of view (Liu, Frankel & Rohr, 2014).
Time is generally considered to as an important factor of critical thinking. It generally
depends on time for its well understanding (McPeck, 2016). Various students also depend on
time for development of the important skills for critical thinking (Moore, 2013). The
important steps of critical thinking are reflect, Question, Contextualize, evaluate, analyze and
observe (Borglin & Fagerström, 2012).
Tools Required For Technical Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is considered to be a fundamental factor for working scholarly.
Various universities around the globe is responsible for teaching theses skills in form of
some degree through some academics (Wallace & Wray, 2016). Nowadays various
universities have units that provide support to students in development of critical thinking

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techniques ( Wild & Han, 2014). With the help of critical thinking process various students
provide a clear idea which can help in the assistance of their analysis (Terry, 2012).
There are certain factors that are included in critical thinking are analyzing of a problem
with the help of written essay within a organization, learning of various problem, various
case studies, various simulation, integrated learning of work through placement and
practices. For example critical thinking in the field of health can be considered treating the
various patients with proper medicine. The student must be familiar with the various
working policies and ethics related to it (Borglin & Fagerström, 2012).
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Students have developed critical thinking techniques they just need to put these
things in their readings and draw a conclusion from their course. Critical thinking is very
helpful to students as it changes the way of reading from passive form to active form
(Moore, 2013). Various universities round the globe also provides a large amount of resource
for promoting of critical teaching technology in their journals of academic and
newspaper article (Price & Harrington, 2015). It also aims to provide students with variety
of texts that aims to encourage direct learning in that point. It also aims to provide an
opportunity for recognizing critical thinking in many domains (Borglin & Fagerström,
2012).
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Students are capable of analyzing that what they have read they should start forming
various formula which is considered as an important part of their written argument. It
ultimately aims to provide critical thinking for their academic and assignment writing Yang &
Wu, 2012). Various universities round the globe has a list of question that the students can

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utilize while applying critical thinking techniques to their academic writings. It can help in
framing the structure of question to promote critical thinking required for skill
development (Cederblom, 2012).
Assessing Critical Thinking
During assessing of critical thinking various academic must return to the point that
it needs certain. For ensuring robustness in the performance critical thinking must be
taught to various students. There are certain step involved in critical thinking that are
observing, Analyzing, Evaluating, Questioning, Contextualization and Reflection. Observe
stage mainly involves in gathering of a number of resources or using resources from a
variety of sources. Analyzing stage mainly consist of identifying all the important themes.
Evaluation stage mainly focuses on identification of arguments that are needed for an
opinion (Nosich, 2012). Questing stage mainly involves putting all the required question on
the given topic. Contextualization phase mainly involves analysis and evaluation of the
given context. Reflect phase mainly consist of various question that are posted. Both of the
holistic and analytic rubrics are easily accessible for critical thinking.
Analytic rubrics is generally considered as an important parameter for enabling a
process which can mark an easy access to various parameters of critical thinking (Nosich,
2012). Various universities round the globe use a list of critical thinking rubrics. Rubrics can be
used in various domains of critical like self assessment of critical thinking rubric and
holistic critical thinking rubric. Critical thinking is generally considered in setting priority
of outcome to higher education (Nosich, 2012). Critical thinking is considered to be
important factor for free thinking and solving of problem in a better way in both lives
that is professional and personal. Critical thinking can be considered as an important factor for

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examination of issue by breaking a problem into pieces and its evaluation in a proper
way (Cederblom, 2012).
Putting question with the answers to get a clear idea about the world around it
focuses it to critical thinking. In various enquiry based instruction various teacher put
questions where student can draw idea and conclusion about a topic. Critical thinking in
writing can be considered as a new technique. Writing critical thinking converts a student
from passive learner to active learner. With the help of writing technique student can
use it to critically analyze various ingredient of critical thinking (Clifford, 2013) .
Employers from various organization look for fresh college pass out who have sharp and
good critical thinking techniques that must be applied to various vocational based region.
With the help of careful planning of task and activities, academics provide a important
platform which is used for the development of critical thinking techniques in various
students With the help of act of writing student can put their focus and thoughts before
putting all their thoughts in their paper. As soon as the students are capable of analyzing
that they have read they should start forming various formula which is considered as an
important part of their written argument. Writing techniques gives a range of benefits to
students. Opportunities for a group of people include decision, case studies, task relate
work , reviews and various debate relate to it (Price & Harrington, 2015).
Students are generally exposed to different region for clarification of their ideas. Student
response from various activities need thinking of new critical goals which are consider as
an important parameter for students (Parkay, Anctil & Hass, 2014). It is vital to put a
clear idea for evaluation of critical thinking. Critical thinking helps in putting student and
teacher towards a common target. It helps in evaluation of various skills and techniques

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used by various students and teacher from various industries. It helps in setting up of
evidence, statements, graphics and question and also help in asking different questions,
draw a conclusion from it , it also helps in explanation of assumption and various
reasons. It is also important to note that it is an very important tool required for any
course (Cederblom, 2012). It is very useful by students in any course of action so it can
check the required criteria for it. It also helps in distribution of assignments that give
freedom to students to receive guidance from various universities round the globe (Price &
Harrington, 2015). . This will ultimately improve the quality of work and it will ultimately
improve the quality of their new idea and writing (Clifford, 2013) .
Conclusion
Critical thinking can be used for addition of various activity of the scholar. It
contains many skills that can be used for development of skills through time and
experience. Students from various universities must be taken in account in many ways to
facilate development of leaning outcomes. Employers from various organization look for
fresh college pass out who have sharp and remarkable critical thinking techniques and
skills which must be applied to various vocational based activities. Careful planning of
task and activities in academics aims to provide a wonderful platform that can be used in
the updating the critical thinking techniques of various students. Students can develop it
further as a part of professional activities and learning of various lifelong techniques (Clifford,
2013).
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