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Critical writing requires considering evidence from multiple sources to make reasoned conclusions. It involves more than just presenting different viewpoints, but evaluating and analyzing the information to develop an argument. Critical writing is defined as writing that evaluates and analyzes more than one source in order to develop an argument.

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Critical writing requires considering evidence from multiple sources to make reasoned conclusions. It involves more than just presenting different viewpoints, but evaluating and analyzing the information to develop an argument. Critical writing is defined as writing that evaluates and analyzes more than one source in order to develop an argument.

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Critical writing involves considering evidence to make reasoned conclusions.

A
mistake many beginning writers make is to use only one source to support their ideas (or,
worse, no sources, making unsubstantiated statements). The main problem with using
only one source is: what if your source says one thing, but most other writers say
something completely different? In critical writing you therefore need to consider more
than one viewpoint. This leads to the first part of the simple definition of critical writing,
which is:

• Critical writing uses more than one source in developing an argument.


Another mistake beginning writers make is to use several sources but to string
quotes together (e.g. A says this, B says that, C says something else), without really
analysing what these writers say. In critical writing, you need to evaluate and analyse the
information from sources, rather than just accepting it as being true. This leads to the
second part of the simple definition, which is:

• Critical writing evaluates and analyses the information from different sources.
Putting this together, a simple definition of critical writing is as follows:

• Critical writing is writing which evaluates and analyses more than one source in
order to develop an argument.

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