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Anasa Alamgir
ENGW 104 28
Dr. Bickerstaff
10/28/2015
Essay #3: Critical Writing vs. NonCritical Writing
Critical writing is analyzing and examining different parts of a writing. It is about critiquing,
but then it is not about negating someone else’s ideas. It just means not to automatically accept
someone else’s opinion. It is about weighing out all aspects of a topic rationally and objectively in
order to reach a conclusion. To read critically is not just to grab information, but to look for ways
to think about the main theme of what you are reading. It requires us to get out of the text and
think about it from the third person’s point of view, even when most of the time I would delve
really deep into the text to think from outside of it. I would always have a bias towards one side.
But critical reading is also about taking a stance about what matters most to me in the text. The
way of thinking should be that we are not looking for information, but about how the author
comes to his/her conclusions, or how is the text argued, what stance does the writer take. The
point of critical writing is to analyse what we have read and how we can reflect it in our writing. It
is what it is because we must reflect on what read, and the idea behind writing is to convey our
own thoughts, ideas and beliefs, to showcase to the world what we think and why it matters. So
critical writing comes in from the fact that we must communicate to each other and give
feedback on each other’s opinions.
When it comes to responsibility, what matters the most about writing is to persuade
readers of the writer’s own beliefs. The writer does not have to have a specific audience in mind
to convey what they want to say, because it is the writer’s job to write, right? What the writer
should keep in mind is to be able to write coherently. A wellwritten article tends to get more ...