학술적 글쓰기에 있어서 ‘분석적/비판적’ 글쓰기의 중요성과 실습 매뉴얼 -두 유형의 글쓰기가 사고에 미치는 영향을 중심으로-

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how particular types of academic writing interact with our thinking elements and to suggest how one can apply it to general writing education. It is a theory of media that underlies this line of thought, which involves that writing as an act of communication has an effect on thinking ability. Literal communication is inseparably relate to thinking ability. Thus, both of them, what is stressed here, are essential elements required for a desirable academic writing. This is why educating writing as an act of communication amounts to not only a field of thinking education and but also one of language education. Writing education should lead students to accommodate their complex and integrative abilities so as to preclude them from overlook either of them. Analytic and evaluative(logical) thinking as basic academic virtues does not arise sui generis, but are cultivated and enhanced by writing practice, resulting in producing a high standard of academic writing. Analytic/critical writing is not all consisting in academic writing. This might be taken as a preliminary level from a general point of view. However, this should be considered as essential in order to advance to the academic discourses with respect to having a different way of thinking. For a new academic discourse, it is presupposed that one grasps the gist of established discurse(or text) and criticizes it. Without this kind of preparation process, it is not expected to attain any genuine academic discourse. Besides, one could not come up to the level of yielding anything innovative until one hold in a position to do through preliminary process. This is where a significance of analytic/critical writing is found.