Thinking critically: a look at students' critiques of a research article

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 575-589

  Leong, Ping Alvin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

critical thinking; critique; student writing; Toulmin model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880036344     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2012.708322     Document Type: Article

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