Critical analysis is what you do when you break down anything into smaller parts and then tackle each piece in order to understand the whole. You take the role of the critic. The analysis is your critique. Your objective is in-depth understanding and constructive suggestions where needed. This happens a lot in the classroom regarding certain texts, or it could be conducted in a business setting to help a Competitive Analysis, or any other setting where you will need to understand the underlying who, what, where, when, why, and how.
In either of these cases, these free samples will show you how different analyses are conducted for certain scenarios. Download them now as useful blueprints and reference examples.
As these samples show, how you conduct a critical analysis will also be affected by what you are analyzing. For example, in a business setting, you can either be conducting an overall Business Analysis or you can be tackling a specific sphere of your business; for instance, a Financial Analysis.
Or perhaps you are doing an analysis of a piece of literature or a whole academic field. Or maybe you are conducting a critical path analysis to assess and plan complex work procedures.
The same elements will come into play in some form or another:
This is a generalized outline underlying any critical analysis, simple or complex. For an even better in-depth understanding, download these templates and study them depending on the context most useful to you.
First consider the basic structure of what you need to analyse.
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