Critical Approaches to Writing a Critique

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is a genre of academic writing.

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Critique Paper

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briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept

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Critique Paper

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briefly and critically ___ and ___ a work or concept

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Summarizes and evaluates

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used to carefully analyze a variety of works

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Critique Paper

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novels, exhibits, films, shows, images, poetry;

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Creative Works

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monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories;

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Researches

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news reports, feature articles.

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Media

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to judge or to evaluate someone or something

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Criticize

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the paper or essay
– the product of criticizing

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Critique

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the person doing the criticism

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Critic

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CRITICAL APPROACHES is sometimes called

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Lenses

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are the different perspectives we can consider in analyzing or interpreting a text.

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Critical Approaches

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A way to write a critique.

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Critical Approaches

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This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.”

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Formalist Criticism

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A primary goal is to determine how elements of form (style, structure, tone, imagery, etc.) work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.

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Formalist Criticism

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This approach “seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it.

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Historical Criticism

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A key goal is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers.

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Historical Criticism

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This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader

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Reader-Response Criticism

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It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.

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Reader-Response Criticism

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is the act of closely examining and judging the media.

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Media Criticism

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When we examine the media and various media stories, we often find instances of ___

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Media Bias

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is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner.

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Media Bias

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This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.

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Gender Criticism

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takes as a central precept that the patriarchal attitudes that have dominated Western thought have resulted, consciously or unconsciously, in literature “full of unexamined ‘male-produced’ assumptions.”

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Gender Criticism

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2 examples of approach in gender criticism.

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Masculist and Feminism

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It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature.

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Marxist Criticism

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often argues that all art is political, either challenging or endorsing (by silence) the status quo, it is frequently evaluative and judgmental, a tendency that “can lead to reductive judgment.

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Marxist Criticism

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To study literature from the moral/intellectual perspective is therefore to determine whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.

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Moralist Criticism