Tajuk 1552 : Being critical in academic writing is being able to ...

1. make a claim backed by 'reason / justification' and it is good to have 'evidence' to support as well. Lets say your argument is ...


‘An app potentially enhances students’ understanding..’


So... what is your REASON and EVIDENCE ?


Example...

An app enhances students’ understanding because it helps them to visualise the abstract ideas in more concrete form (Alice, 2015; Mayer, 2012). For example, Robert (2016) found that 30% of students who exposed to app increased their mathematics scores.


2. use you own voice backed with multiple views


Example...

In Msia, over 200 animal species are listed as endangered or critically endangered (Azman, 2009; Kassim, 2017). Unfortunately, this is one of the highest numbers of endangered species in the world (John, 2016). To address this problem, in 2015 the Msian government introduced a comprehensive Threatened Species Strategy (PERHILILITAN, 2016) encompassing four umbrella projects and numerous partnerships aimed at saving endangered birds and mammals. Although the number of endangered species grew slightly in 2016 (Tan, 2018), the trend will likely begin to reverse when the programs have had time to take effect.


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