Features of critical thinking on studets’ english essay based on bloom’s taxonomy theory

Critical thinking is crucial in particular for university students to enable them to write academically critical works such as an essay. The purpose of this research is to explore the features of critical thinking on students’ English essay writing based on Bloom’s Taxonomy which has been revised in the cognitive process domain. This research was conducted using document analysis. To obtain data, this research analyzed 12 essays developed by students from Written English class. The findings showed that there were 9 out of 10 sub cognitive problems developed by the students. The features covered are executing, implementing, differentiating, organizing, attributing, checking, critiquing, generating, and producing levels. One type of sub cognitive level was not used in their essays that is planning level. Features of critical thinking that often appeared in the essays were the analyzing level, and especially at the organizing level. The features of critical thinking found were not only in the body of the paragraph but also in the introduction and conclusion paragraphs. These findings imply that the essays made by the university students have reached the level of critical thinking based on Bloom’s Taxonomy theory. This is evidenced by the organizing features that frequently appear in each paragraph of their essays, such as it, that, these, there and others that are aligned with critical thinking elements based on the theory. So, the feature appears in the form of simple expressions, phrases, or language features.