Improving Critical Thinking in Academic Writing through Portfolio in Higher Education

DOI

10.2991/icse-15.2016.89How to use a DOI?

Keywords

critical thinking, academic writing, portfolio, higher education

Abstract

Critical thinking skill is one of 21st century skills that supports the mastery of academic writing. Academic writing skill requires critical thinking to express arguments in such systematic and scientific way based on trusted sources. Facione (2011) argues that there are 6 stages in critical thinking, namely interpretation, analysis, interference, evaluation, explanation and self-regulation. These stages were applied to writing activities. The outline of academic writing consists of three parts, namely the introduction, development and conclusions. Each part requires the ability to think critically. To be able to think critically, one needs to have prior data. Therefore, it is necessary to use portfolio to support these strategies. This study uses action research to psychology students who programmed academic writing course.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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