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Study Skills: Critical Thinking

Study Skills

Critical Thinking

What is Critical Thinking?

Critical thinking is:

  • the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas
  • the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking
  • the ability to reason
  • being an active learner rather than a passive recipient of information

Critical thinkers rigorously question ideas and assumptions rather than accepting them at face value. They will always seek to determine whether the ideas, arguments and findings represent the entire picture and are open to finding that they do not. Critical thinkers will identify, analyse and solve problems systematically rather than by intuition or instinct.

Critical Thinking

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