Keterampilan menulis kritis untuk mempersiapkan mahasiswa pada penulisan akademik profesional (the use of critical writing skills to prepare students for professional academic writing)

Writing academic texts needs to consider critical thinking positions. Critical thinking is a way to see things proportionally and objectively. Students have good critical thinking skills to do good writing. In writing academic texts, students tend to have difficulty integrating various reference sources into a unified whole to support arguments and ideas in writing, especially in the background, tend to be disorganized and incoherent, have difficulty finding previous research that supports the problem, and choose theory as a framework. This study aims to use critical writing skills to prepare students for professional academic writing. The presentation uses a literature review approach. The database or dataset used for literature research is the Google Scholar in Perish or Publish (PoP) application. Articles that are relevant to the research objectives 31 articles. The findings show that, first, descriptive writing involves describing information and phenomena in detail without argumentation. In contrast, critical writing involves analyzing and linking various pieces of information to understand the problem or topic chosen, learning to gain multiperspective understanding. Second, to prepare students for professional academic writing, an understanding of critical writing skills is needed, namely paraphrasing, explaining, concluding, analyzing, and synthesizing in writing academic texts. Third, the need to provide real feedback from lecturers and colleagues to increase self-confidence, as well as to habituate patterns of critical writing skill