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Content: Additionally, the sources you choose to cite in your papers are judged with greater scrutiny in terms of quality and reliability. critical thinking demystified
Developing strong critical thinking skills is crucial to your success as a writer. Critical thinking involves actively engaging the text that you are reading and asking questions of the text. Try to envision the act of reading as participating in a conversation with the author, rather than merely absorbing the information as it is given to you, question the information and the claims that the author makes. Bearing this perspective in mind, it is helpful to approach critical thinking as a set of questions to ask when reading or listening to an argument (Browne and Keeley 2004). What are the issue and conclusion? The first step of critical thinking is to identify the issue or controversy that the author is addressing or reacting to. There are two different types of issues, descriptive and prescriptive. Descriptive issues address or describe how the world is. For example, "What makes grass grow?"