These pages will help you develop your understanding of what critical analysis is, what it looks like in a piece of academic writing, and how to use it to help you build an argument and support your ideas in your assignments. 

Contents

1 Landing page

2 Learning Outcomes

3 What it means to be critical

4 The benefits of being critical

5 The language of critical analysis

6 Identifying bias

7 Assess your learning

8 Reflect and feedback

9 Extend your learning

Author: Silvina Bishopp-Martin
Co-created by: Claudia Espana
Last updated: August 2020