“By writing, students demonstrate what they have learned, show their ability to think critically and ability to develop ideas.”—Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes

@makzan I know what they are trying to say - but surely it isn't 'just' writing ...

clearly? thoughtfully? well? analytically?

bad writing does not show anybody's ability to think critically.

Or am I missing something?

@JohnPhilpin before that paragraph, in the book, it says that when students show what they learned by writing, they show how well they learned it, good or bad.

It compares the “read-only” method that students only capture without output process, which students think they learned something but actually not.

@makzan ✅ I get it and the previous paragraph clarity adds context - thank you.

But, to me, it still seems to need a qualifier in there somewhere.