Critical Writing

by Gerald Nosich

The main goal of Critical Writing is to provide students with a set of robust, integrated critical concepts and processes that will allow to them think through and write about a topic in a way that is built on—and permeated by—substantive critical thinking. This step-by-step guide Each step provides close and careful processes for carrying out each of these tasks, through the use of critical thinking.

296 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2021

Reviews

[Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book in order to consider someone else's opinion on writing. Although writing is somewhat of an art, the book did contain some convenient "checklist"-like hints on how to proceed. I think those are helpful, even if they are not a step by step formula. I also felt good that my thinking was close to alignment with those principles. I was impressed with the areas on topic analysis and focus.

The only negative I found was that "Socratic questions" seemed to be a poor name for one of those lists. In the stories I remember about Socrates, his questions typically debunked a position held by people in general or by one of his adversaries. The questions in the list served a different purpose, primarily to assist in improving a written document.

[talia · Rating 3 out of 5]

actually really helpful