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critique paper

• is a genre of academic writing.
• briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept.

critiques can be used to evaluate:

• Creative works – novels, exhibits, film, images, poetry
• Research – monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories
• Media – news reports, feature articles

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• Criticize - to judge or to evaluate someone or something
• Critique - the paper or essay; the product of criticizing
• Critic - the person doing the criticism

critique paper

• uses a formal, academic writing style and has clear structure.
• its body contains the summary of the subject and the detailed evaluation about it.

why do we make critiques?

purpose of critique

• gauge the usefulness or impact of a work in a field.
• creativity, message and impact

critical approaches

FORMALIST CRITICISM

• claims that literary works have intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct work of art.
• Elements of a Story characters, setting, conflict, plot, point of view

formalism = text'S form

reader-response CRITICISM

• is concerned with the reviewer's reaction as an influence of a literary work.
• claims that a text does not have meaning until the reader reads and interpret it.

READER-RESPONSE = focused on the message of the text

Feminist CRITICISM

• focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression.
• tends to reveal the patriarchal aspects of our culture.

feminist criticism

• - based on how men and women were presented.
• are the male characters powerful or superior in their position while the female characters are subordinate or inferior?
• are the male characters decisive and the female are not?

feminist = females or women

marxist CRITICISM

• concerned with the differences between economic classes.
• attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people's experiences is the socio-economic system.

marxism = social classes