Critical Thinking and Reflection - Resources for Students

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

 

Definitions of critical thinking
Staff and student definitions of critical thinking

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.

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CT Model Reflective activity
Critical reflection: A questioning activity.

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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.

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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.