Critical thinking “ is a part of the formal education process and is increasingly significant as students progress through university to graduate education, although there is debate among educators about its precise meaning and scope.” (Brookfield, S.D. 2000)
How can critical thinking improve academic writing skills?
First of all there is not authentication on the information - an expert still brings bias to the table. For instance, if the wrtier is an employee of a certain drug manufacturer he probably is an expert, but he is biased toward his product. There is no peer review of these articles to challenge the varacity of the writer. There is no reference concerning where the information came from - was it stolen from someone else? I would encourage you to use Google Scholar, or a University Library to obtain credible resources.
Thanks for the reply and I understand you're contesting criticality. So did Brookfield as cited by Wikipedia that I quoted in my initial question. His original paper can easily be viewed in (http://www.adulterc.org/Proceedings/2000/brookfields1-final.PDF ) and it is cited at least 13 times according to Google Scholar.
In a former thread where we discussed the question of Wikipedia citing, all contributions insisted (explicitly or implicitly) in the necessity of such critical thinking while using that source of information. In the present thread, the question is about extending critical thinking to the whole academic writing process.
Link to former thread: https://www.researchgate.net/topic/Academic_Writing/post/Citing_Wikipedia
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