Why do I need to learn it?
Critical analysis is a skill that each student should come away from university knowing. It's one of the key skills that employers expect from a graduate. Critical analysis or evaluation is all about asking questions of the sources you discover and want to use in your assignments and helps you identify the key pieces of reliable evidence you want to use to support your own argument.
This may involve you developing an understanding of the different types of resources you could use; their strengths and weaknesses, credibility and reliability, for example.
How do I do it?
How you are critical depends on the context you might be using it in. At a university level you are expected to include critical analysis in your writing. When you are critically analysing the sources you read and use you might be looking at: