Critical thinking skills, higher order sub-skills of reading namely, making inferences and deductions, reading between the lines, relating inferences from the text to real life; reacting to readings; production of different types of essays (e.g. comparison and contrast, classification, process analysis, cause-and-effect analysis, and argumentative); basic research skills including library/internet search, and basic research report writing skills such as citing, paraphrasing and referencing.
