I was so glad to see someone else write about the fact that many students do not possess critical thinking skills. It's something I've struggled to articulate (no surprises there) and I was relieved to have someone express the very things I've been trying to put my finger on for quite some time.
Writing for academic purposes alone explain this lack of ability to analyze and apply given information to other situations. In the academic setting, many teachers spit information at us; often times we are not given an opportunity to formulate our own opinions because of the pace of the discussion.
Writing about said subject should an avenue for us to explore a topic, to understand it more fully. However, I feel that (academic) writing, which is the majority of writing, is so often aimed at proving a point rather than discovering a topic. In proving a point, students often develop a certain formula for proving a thesis. In doing so, they often lose the ability to freely analyze information and gain insight. Again, this seems to be a result of process thinking rather than product thinking.
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