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. 

Learning Outcomes

  • To develop your understanding of the concept of critical analysis.
  • To explore what critical analysis entails.
  • To identify what critical analysis looks like in writing.
  • To be able to apply critical and analytical skills to your own texts.

Find out more on the next page: What it means to be critical

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Author(s): Silvina Bishopp-Martin

Last updated: August 2021