Critical thinking is the ability to make good judgements about a certain issue. It helps you identify and understand arguments and evidence, and use this understanding to answer a question or suggest a suitable course of action to solve a problem.
Here you can explore the live workshops the Centre for Academic Success has to offer over the next couple of weeks on the theme of Analysis and Critical Thinking.
This workshop will introduce ways of understanding, analysing and evaluating a text so that you can interpret it confidentially and critically. Doing this will save you time and make your writing more purposeful.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 21st November 2024
14:00 - 15:00 GMT
critical reading, critical thinking, arguments
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Learn how to write critical main body paragraphs. This workshop will help you show your marker that you have understood and critically engaged with your topic. We will cover paragraph structure, critical arguments, synthesis, and coherence and cohesion.
Online via Zoom
Tuesday 26th November 2024
13:00 - 14:00 GMT
academic writing, arguments, synthesising
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We all make errors in our reasoning, but they can be hard to spot and may mislead us. In this workshop we consider some common logical flaws, and practise identifying them in texts, allowing us to critically interpret our own and others’ arguments.
Singleton Campus
Thursday 28th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 GMT
critical thinking, fallacies, arguments
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This workshop will introduce ways of understanding, analysing and evaluating a text so that you can interpret it confidentially and critically. Doing this will save you time and make your writing more purposeful.
Online via Zoom
Thursday 28th November 2024
11:00 - 12:00 GMT
critical reading, critical thinking, arguments
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This workshop applies critical thinking skills to debates and conversations. We will consider what makes a speaker persuasive, and then how we might apply knowledge about arguments to more be more persuasive and effective in debates and conversations.
Singleton Campus
Friday 29th November 2024
10:00 - 11:00 GMT
critical thinking, debates, argument
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This workshop examines the difference between descriptive writing and critical writing, what your lecturers are looking for when they ask you to be ‘more critical’ or ‘less descriptive’, and how to communicate your critical thinking through writing.
Singleton Campus
Friday 29th November 2024
12:00 - 13:00 GMT
critical writing, critical analysis, argument
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This workshop examines the difference between descriptive writing and critical writing, what your lecturers are looking for when they ask you to be ‘more critical’ or ‘less descriptive’, and how to communicate your critical thinking through writing.
Online via Zoom
Monday 2nd December 2024
13:00 - 14:00 GMT
critical writing, critical analysis, argument
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This workshop applies critical thinking skills to debates and conversations. We will consider what makes a speaker persuasive, and then how we might apply knowledge about arguments to more be more persuasive and effective in debates and conversations.
Bay Campus
Thursday 5th December 2024
12:00 - 13:00 GMT
critical thinking, debates, argument
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