10 Step Process for Stronger Writing – Jordan Peterson

Writing is a means to learn critical thinkging? Catching a video involving critical thinking with Jordan Peterson was a good find. Within the video, he conveys the best method to learn critical thinking is to have strong writing skills. I was immediately interested.

Per Jordan, to learn critical thinking, teach your kids how to write. He comments on a rubric involving how to create an essay. Found another article also discussing this rubric. You may also find interest in my Best Way to Learn Critical Thinking article.

Rummaging around the internet, I managed to finally find the rubric. This provides a good outline on writing stronger.

The steps are as follow:

• Introduction
• Levels of Resolution
• The Topic and the Reading List
• The Outline
• Paragraphs
• Editing and Arranging of Sentences Within Paragraphs
• Reordering the Paragraphs
• Generating a New Outline
• Repeat
• References and Bibliography

How does an essay incorporate critical thinking?

Jordan Peterson eloquently explains how.

The primary reason to write an essay is so that the writer can formulate and organize an informed, coherent and sophisticated set of ideas about something important.

Jordan Peterson

An essay is not a blog post, stipulating on ideas or feelings. Rather a concise message, with clarity, and citations to back up your findings. It forces the writer to answer all the possible questions posed on the content.

This forces the writer to consider many, if not all, angles and possible alternative views and answer them accordingly.

This process posed is time-consuming and daunting. However, it is also necessary to truly create a genuiune essay, while building on the critical skills.

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