Arellano University

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Senior High School Department
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S.Y. 2020-2021 Creativity: 2
Content: 8
English for Academic and Professional Purposes
Total: 15

Date: February 10, 2022

TOPIC: Writing a Critique Paper
OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson the students are expected to:
a. Define Precis, Abstract, and Summary;
b. Identify what is the purpose of a Comprehensive Review Paper, Reaction Paper,
and Critique Paper;
c. Write a Comprehensive Review Paper, Reaction Paper, and Critique Paper.

REFERENCES: MELCs (English for Academic and Professional Purposes), Syllabus, Course
Outline, and Curriculum Guide, Google/Internet

CONCEPT NOTES: Writing a Critique Paper

What a critique is?

• A review sometimes called a critique or an evaluative paper critically and carefully
examines another writer’s work.

Writing a critique on a work helps you to develop:

1. Knowledge of the work’s subject area

2. An understanding of the work’s purpose, intended audience, development of
argument, the structure of the evidence, or creative style.
3. Recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of the work.

Critical Approaches in Writing a Critique

1. Formalism
✓ It focuses on the text
✓ It is a close reading
✓ The historical content, the author, or any other external contents are not
necessary in interpreting the meaning.
2. Feminist Criticism
✓ Focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of sociopolitical,
psychological, and economic oppression.
✓ It also reveals how a culture views men as superior and women as inferior.
3. Reader-Response Criticism
 ✓ This approach claims that the reader’s role cannot be separated from the
understanding of the work – a text does not have meaning until the reader
reads it and interprets it.

Steps in Writing a Critique

1. Decide what to look at.

2. Decide what make things good or bad
3. Write your review or critique
It is now time to start putting your essay together. Here's a pretty simple format
you can follow:
✓ Introduction
o catches the reader's attention;
o identifies the thing you'll be reviewing (e.g., the title of the book or movie);
o identifies the author, star, or director, if appropriate.
✓ Body
o opens with a topic sentence that says what the paragraph is about;
o has several detailed sentences that prove the point you are trying to make;
o uses quotes or examples from the book or movie, if possible, to help
prove your point.
✓ Conclusion
o *briefly* restates the main ideas of the review;
o makes a judgment about the book or movie or whatever, saying whether it
is good or bad (some reviewers give ratings, like four stars or two
thumbs up);
o recommends that the reader go to the movie or read the book or buy a meal
at the restaurant (or not if it is no good).

ANALYSIS:
Guide questions:
1. Why do we make critiques?
2. In your own experience, cite daily routines/activities you usually have difficulty
deciding? Explain how you deal with those difficulties?

ABSTRACTION:
Discussion of the following:
A. Critical Approaches in Writing a Critique
-Formalism
 -Feminism

APPLICATION:
Direction: Make a critique paper about your favorite movie/book.

Criteria
Content - 15
Organization - 10
Style - 5
Total - 30

ASSIGNMENT:
Read and study the following topics:

Writing a Concept Paper

a. Definition, Explication, Clarification

b. The concept for a Project
c. The concept for Academic Research