Exploring Critical Thinking in Writing
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211227.012How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- thinking; writing; declarative knowledge; analysing information
- Abstract
Is writing a thinking process? Writers are expected to apply information they already know to gather materials suitable for their essays. They have to use declarative knowledge to practise the skills of analysing information, and synthesising information. Next the writers need to use procedural knowledge to make decisions about downloading the content of the essay. However, not all materials gathered are suitable for their essay. They also need to use metacognition to evaluate information to make the materials work best for their writing task. This qualitative study explores the connection between critical thinking skills and the writing process. Open-ended responses from 20 postgraduate students who attended research writing courses were analysed based on categories of critical thinking skills used in their writing process. The findings reveal interesting implications for learning and teaching academic writing to postgraduate students. The significance of this study is two-fold. Firstly, findings in this study will reveal how writing mirrors the thinking process. Secondly, the results of this study will encourage writing teachers to focus on the learners’ thinking process as much as their writing process in the teaching of writing.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Zulaikha Khairuddin AU - Wan Faizatul Azirah Ismayatim AU - Othman Ismail AU - Noor Hanim Rahmat AU - Nur Adibah Zamri PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/29 TI - Exploring Critical Thinking in Writing BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation Track Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICSIHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 67 EP - 72 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211227.012 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211227.012 ID - Khairuddin2021 ER -