Resources Pages for the Academic Skills

Workshop video

Click to watch the video recording of our online workshop "Critical Thinking (UG)" on our Moodle site. [New version coming here soon]

A video recording of our online workshop "Critical Thinking (L6+)". Click to play.

Playlist

We have put together a playlist of YouTube videos on critical thinking. Click to view the videos, or click the icon in the upper right to select from the list of videos.

Presentations:

Download the Critical Thinking (UG) Workshop Presentation   

Or view the presentation here:

Presentation for Level 6+

Download the slides or view the presentation here:

Activities:

Critical Thinking Mini-Module: Follow our step-by-step interactive short course to learn all about critical thinking and how to put it into your writing.

Critical thinking Lesson: Try out this interactive introduction to critical thinking.

Levels of Critical Thinking. Learn about the levels of critical thinking with this interactive game about Bloom's Taxonomy. It will help you to judge your own writing.

 Logical fallacies: Practise identifying the common mistakes people make in arguments. Choose the fallacy in each of the statements. Each fallacy will only occur once.

Three types of writing: Are you using Description, Analysis, Evaluation? A vital skill for critical writing! In the activity below, decide which type of writing it is. 

Download Files:

• HowTo Guide: This has lots of useful information about critical thinking and how to write critically. [pdf]
• Compare Level 5 to Level 6 Writing. See an example to show the differences between the two.
• Fallacies: A guide to some of the common mistakes in arguments. [pdf]

Useful links:

• Critical Appraisal Skills Programme A set of very useful guides to help healthcare students with critical reading.
• Open University Open Learn (especially Sections 3.1 , 3.2, and 4.) 
• Hong Kong University. A lot of interesting material here.
• Plymouth University Learning Development. A very good Critical Thinking Guide with examples. [pdf]
• Sheffield University. Very nice interactive guides, including Criticality. [Opens in new window]
• Mini-Module: Critical Thinking. Our own Skills for Success interactive guide to critical thinking 
• Study Skills Quick Tips: Critical Paragraphs (Audio). An episode of a podcast about critical thinking. This one is all about how to write critical paragraphs. From Manchester Metropolitan University. [Opens in new window]

Reading critically:

• Open University. The main points about being critical and quick questions you can ask.
• Manchester University - Escholar. An interactive guide to being critical.
• Mini-module: How to Read Critically. Our own interactive guide to reading critically.

Writing

• Manchester Academic Phrasebank. The phrases you need to write critical analyses.
• Skills for Success Mini-module: Critical Writing. Our own interactive guide to critical writing.  

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