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UCI's Writing Rubric
UCI's Writing Rubric
Critical Thinking & Analysis refers to the originality and depth in students’ thinking about the topic. This criterion evaluates the extent to which students’ work reflects analysis, reflection, evaluation, inference, problem-solving, and synthesis of disparate data or viewpoints.
Critical Thinking & Analysis refers to the originality and depth in students’ thinking about the topic. This criterion evaluates the extent to which students’ work reflects analysis, reflection, evaluation, inference, problem-solving, and synthesis of disparate data or viewpoints.
Strategies to Improve Critical Thinking & Analysis in Your Writing and Communication Assignments
Strategies to Improve Critical Thinking & Analysis in Your Writing and Communication Assignments
Planning Strategies to Support Critical Thinking & Analysis
Planning Strategies to Support Critical Thinking & Analysis
The PLAN Strategy
The PLAN Strategy
For Informational and Argumentative Writing
For Informational and Argumentative Writing
This strategy helps you understand the assignment's requirements, gather information, and generate main ideas and identify how to use evidence to support them. This strategy helps writers use multiple sources to generate an original analysis or perspective on the topic, and they will support their logic using evidence.
This strategy helps you understand the assignment's requirements, gather information, and generate main ideas and identify how to use evidence to support them. This strategy helps writers use multiple sources to generate an original analysis or perspective on the topic, and they will support their logic using evidence.
Mind Mapping
Mind Mapping
For All Genres
For All Genres
This strategy will help you brainstorm and organize your ideas. As you develop your mind map, you can see themes, key ideas, and the relationships among them. This strategy helps writers see the relationships among ideas and evidence, and can help generate original insights.
This strategy will help you brainstorm and organize your ideas. As you develop your mind map, you can see themes, key ideas, and the relationships among them. This strategy helps writers see the relationships among ideas and evidence, and can help generate original insights.
Drafting Strategies to Support Critical Thinking and Analysis
Drafting Strategies to Support Critical Thinking and Analysis
The 3-2-1 Strategy
The 3-2-1 Strategy
For Informational, Argumentative & Persuasive Genres
For Informational, Argumentative & Persuasive Genres
This strategy helps writers think critically about their research and encourages original thinking about the topic.
This strategy helps writers think critically about their research and encourages original thinking about the topic.
STOP & DARE
STOP & DARE
For Persuasive and Argumentative Genres
For Persuasive and Argumentative Genres
This strategy will help you plan and draft your arguments. Throughout this strategy, writers think critically about the quality and logical connection of the ideas and evidence that support and contradict their theses.
This strategy will help you plan and draft your arguments. Throughout this strategy, writers think critically about the quality and logical connection of the ideas and evidence that support and contradict their theses.
Evaluation Strategies to Support Critical Thinking and Analysis
Evaluation Strategies to Support Critical Thinking and Analysis
Compare-Diagnose-Operate
Compare-Diagnose-Operate
Any Genre
Any Genre
The Compare-Diagnose-Operate strategy guides writers through the evaluation process. It encourages writers to reflect on the overall quality of their evidence, whether the ideas presented are logically connected, and if the key ideas come through.
The Compare-Diagnose-Operate strategy guides writers through the evaluation process. It encourages writers to reflect on the overall quality of their evidence, whether the ideas presented are logically connected, and if the key ideas come through.
What I Really Mean Is Strategy
What I Really Mean Is Strategy
Any Genre
Any Genre
This strategy helps writers focus on the main message of their writing and communication. It helps writers identify if they know what their key message is, and with the help of a partner, identify if they successfully conveyed that message.
This strategy helps writers focus on the main message of their writing and communication. It helps writers identify if they know what their key message is, and with the help of a partner, identify if they successfully conveyed that message.
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