Critical Thinking and Reflection - Resources for Students

What's it all about?
Critical thinking and reflection. What's it all about?

 

Staff and student definitions of critical thinking

Definitions of critical thinking
A video resource to help with critical thinking and reflection is currently under construction and will be available soon.

Top 3 activities
Critical Thinking Model activity
An activity to help you be more analytical, improve your assignment structure and use theory and evidence more effectively to support an argument.

CT Model Reflective activity
Critical reflection: A questioning activity.

Critical Thinking Study Guide
The critical thinking study guide is full of tips and strategies to help you take a more analytical approach to your academic work.

The Reflection Study Guide will help you to apply a critical approach to your reflective work for assignments, group work and PDP.

WrAssE
WrAssE (Writing for Assignments E-library) is available for student use. It contains examples of real student work annotated by staff. Students have commented that it is:
 ‘Very exciting to be able to look at existing good work and understand how to get good marks’
‘This is a very useful tool to demonstrate what makes good writing’

Further activities and resources
Check the difference between description and critical analysis.

Tips for writing a critical essay.