Critical Thinking and Writing: Approaches and Challenges Analysis

This assignment explores the concepts of critical thinking and critical writing, providing definitions and discussing their importance. It delves into the core aspects of critical thinking, emphasizing rational and clear thought processes. The assignment examines various approaches to critical thinking, including strategies for self-direction and seeking evidence-based opinions. It also addresses challenges such as lack of self-direction, fear of failure, and the inability to adapt to changing situations. The student discusses how to overcome these challenges by seeking opinions and adopting reasonable views. The assignment includes an analysis of how critical writing is based on evidence and reasoned conclusions, and how to use multiple sources. The document concludes with a list of references to support the analysis.

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Contents
PART 4............................................................................................................................................3
1). Define and discuss about the critical thinking as well as critical writing..............................3
2). Discuss about the approaches which may including challenges as per own experience and
how it will overcome...................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

PART 4
1). Define and discuss about the critical thinking as well as critical writing.
Critical Thinking
It refers an ability to think in rationally and clearly about what to do complete any work and
also believe on their own understanding. It mainly including an ability of people that engage with
the other independent thinking and reflective attitudes. Critical thinking is based on the
conceptual term that has been developing in past years where it is defined the substantive and
trans-disciplinary conception of thinking (Currier and Eimermann, 2019). Sometimes, it is
considered as an intellectual disciplined process that are actively applying in their own attitude
and also gathered information through observation, communication and reflection. It is a
conceptual term that applicable as a universal intellectual value and divided into different matters
such as consistency, good reasons, consistency, relevance and fairness. Critical thinking can be
divided into different components when its belief to generate information and processing skills.
It is based on the intellectual commitment of using different type of skill on the basis of
behaviour of writer. Critical thinking is considered as self-disciplined which attempts to different
reason at the highest level of quality in fairly (Rutter and Brown, 2019). Many people are
thinking in critically and attempt to live empathically, rationally and reasonably. There are
different types of outcome generate due to critical thinking.
 It will gather and assess the information with the help of an abstract idea to interpret. It is
effectively come to give well-reasoned conclusion and proper solution. It also useful for
testing them against the relevant standards and criteria.
 It has been increasing communication between people effectively which figure out
accurate solution.
 It always try to formulating the questions and answer on the basis of requirement, which
plays important role in critical thinking.
Critical writing
Critical writing is based on the evidence that make reasoned conclusions. It is beginning of
writer that make to use new idea through specific source. Sometimes, writer face problem due to
authenticate source which require to understand in depth manner. It matters a lot of choose the
best authenticate source that provide correct information about subject. In critical writing, writer
always must consider own experience of other people which showing in the form of argument

ways. On the other hand, in critical writing writer makes to use multiple sources but to string an
appropriate quote together without analysis, it is difficult to represent the unique opinion
regarding topic or subject (Elder and Paul, 2019). For Example- if writer will use reliable or
relevant source and also analysing that reason for finding conclusion whether it will accept
caution. Once it has analysed and evaluated multiple sources so as it should require clear
reasoning that will increase chances of finding right conclusion, based on accurate evidence.
2). Discuss about the approaches which may including challenges as per own experience and
how it will overcome.
If peoples are going to critical writer when they are used different ways to think about
situation and conditions. It just adopts the behaviour of critical thinking because it based on
systematically and deliberately processing information which make better decision and usually
understand complex things in proper manner (Nygren and et.al., 2019). In this way, it may
include the different approaches such as:
 Deicide that what people think and why they think it.
 Seek their own opinion on basis of evidence.
 decide that which views is reasonable.
In step-1 Deicide that what people think and why they think it.
It is considered an appropriate strategies and practical exercise that understand about the
questions, when it will arise during critical thinking. As per approach, it must provide an
efficient platform that thinking about the concept and use according to interest or expanding new
idea (Paul and Elder, 2019). A large number of questions always helping to clear all doubt of
people which help for easily analysing overall conceptual topic.
In step-2 Seek their own opinion on basis of evidence.
This type of approach is based on the experience of practical exercise doing in the critical
thinking. In this way, writer always thought in different ways and find other way to thinking
about particular topic. On the other hand, it also used other sources such as academic, literacy
that may provide other view of topic. In this way, writer easily clearly know about the entire
process in proper manner.

In step-3 decide that which views is reasonable.
This approach is based on evidence that collected and gathered by different sources. It is
a time to evaluate the evidence and take position. Through this approach, writer must analyse
advantage and disadvantage for every perspective, it may argument and sometimes, it is not
agreed within proper manner.
Challenges:
 Lack of self-direction: It is main challenge in the critical thinking because it depends on
the self-awareness and own experience where how to decide that which is right or wrong.
In this way, it is important for overcome the challenge by using approach for seeking own
opinion on particular topic.
 Being afraid for failure: It is another threat in critical thinking where many people
thought in different ways so as they feel afraid of failure and always think about causes
that directly affecting on their confidence level. In this way, it will increase the barrier in
critical thinking which directly reflecting on writing (Paul and Elder, 2019). It requires to
overcome challenges by communicating with other to analyse depth thinking towards
topic.
 Never changing and adapting situation: It is a major obstacle in the terms of critical
thinking where it can be determined that writer will not change and adopt same think but
It will increase challenges and faced by critical writer. In this way, it is required to
overcome challenges by using approach of reasonable view which help for deciding the
accurate information and used as critically manner.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Currier, K.A. and Eimermann, T.E., 2019. Introduction to law for paralegals: A critical thinking
approach. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
Elder, L. and Paul, R., 2019. The art of asking essential questions: Based on critical thinking
concepts and Socratic principles. Rowman & Littlefield.
Nygren, T. and et.al., 2019. Critical thinking in national tests across four subjects in Swedish
compulsory school. Education Inquiry. 10(1). pp.56-75.
Paul, R. and Elder, L., 2019. A guide for educators to critical thinking competency standards:
Standards, principles, performance indicators, and outcomes with a critical thinking
master rubric. Rowman & Littlefield.
Paul, R. and Elder, L., 2019. The nature and functions of critical & creative thinking. Rowman
& Littlefield.
Rutter, L. and Brown, K., 2019. Critical Thinking and Professional judgement for social work.
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