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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln 7-1-2011 An a ysis of LIS Research Articles 1997-2007: Critical Thinking, Gender, and Education Fahimeh Baba havaeji Islamic Azad University Mitra Ghiasi Islamic Azad University Follow this and additional works at : /libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Ba alhavaeji, Fahimeh and Ghiasi, Mitra, Analysis of LIS Research Articles 1997-2007: Critical Thinking, Gender, and Education (2011). Library Ph ilosop hy a nd Practice (e-journal). Paper 544. /libphilprac/544 /LPP/ Library Philosophy and Practice 2011 ISSN 1522-0222 Analysis of LIS Research Articles 1997-2007: Critical Thinking, Gender, and Education Fahimeh Babalhavaeji Department of Library and Information Science Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Mitra Ghiasi PhD student of Library and Information Science Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Introduction Writing is a process. The beginning of the process will be with thinking, and what follows will not be obviously separated from thinking. An article must have components such as analysis, evaluation of the topic, examination of findings, and inference, conclusions, and discussion. A group of factors identified as the signs of critical thinking must also be strongly present in the writing process. Bean (2001) reviewed writing as a process that intrinsically comes along with critical thinking. According to Kovalik Kovalik (2007) academic writing cannot be separated from critical thinking. Fisher (2001) discusses how one must interpret or evaluate information resources. Nosich (2005) and Martinez (2006) interpret reflection, results, reasoning, and discussions as ways of evaluating resources. Regarding critical thinking, some researches s