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Bagus Purnomo 2319.079, English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teaching Training, State Islamic University Institute of Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi 2023 M / 1444 H, An Analysis Of Writing Assignments Through The Critical Thinking Skills In The Sixth Semester Of English Department UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi. This research was purposed to find out the implementation of the indicators of critical thinking skills in the writing assignments of sixth-semester students in the English department. By analyzing students writing assignments that have who do not know whether they have it taught critical thinking skills, this research analyzed whether the students' writing assignments contain critical thinking skills or not. Through this, this research aims to increase knowledge of pedagogical writing and provide an in-depth analysis of student writing assignments. This research is a quantitative descriptive analysis method research. The population of this research is all of the students in the Sixth semester of English Department UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi year 2022/2023 consisting of four classes 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D. The sample of this research was determined by using Accidental Sampling. With accidental sampling, almost do not authority to choose sample elements, and this is done purely based on proximity and not representativeness. In this research, the sample is 6B students. This research chose this sample because it provided easy access to subjects in the population. The findings of this research for students' writing assignments for the thesis writing revealed that students had low percentages of critical thinking skills indicators, as seen by the average score items of the documentation checklist, where the average score was 48,17%. According to the findings of the study, students displayed inadequate critical thinking skills while creating 17 specific sub-indicators with scores below of 50%. It was discovered that students encountered difficulties when writing a thesis assignment. It means that the majority of students were unable to organize thoughts into thesis writing assignments.