LibGuides: Academic Writing Service: Building Argument and Academic Style

10 questions to help you make sense of qualitative research
A useful guide from the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) which helps health professionals and students critically evaluate published research
Critical Analysis Checklist
This checklist provides you with the opportunity to ask questions when reading a text
Critical Thinking - A Brief Explanation
Critical Thinking - A Miniature Guide
A brief 8 page guide to critical thinking by Dr Richard Paul and Linda Elder
Critical Thinking and Reading
Critical Thinking Pathway
Resource which explains stages of critical thinking and writing
Deciding What to Trust Online
A short Open University guide to questions that should be asked of online sources

Critical Reading Resource
Questions and prompts to help you to read critically from UCL

Critical Reading Exercise
A paragraph from a source about classroom management with comments giving questions that could be asked of the text

Academic Style – Dos and Don’ts
Style and Register
Guidance on how to write in a suitably academic style
Style in Engineering and Science Writing
Degrees of Formality
Handout used in workshops to explore levels of formality in vocabulary and expressions
Annotated Style Model for a Parents' Guide to Teaching Phonics
Written for 216HSC: Teaching the Core Curriculum

Academic Writing Service: Building Argument and Academic Style