Critical Approaches

in writing a Critique

EAPP Lesson 6
 What is a
Critique Paper?

Þ a genre of academic writing

Þ briefly and critically summarizes

and evaluates a work or concept

Þ used to carefully analyze a

variety of words
 Critiques can be used
to evaluate

Creative
Work Media
novels, exhibits, films,
shows, images, and news reports, and
poetry… feature articles

Researches
monographs, journals,articles,
systematic reviews, theories…
 Critic
Criticize
= to judge or to evaluate = the person doing
someone or something the criticism

Critique

= the paper or
essay; the product
of criticizing
 Critique Paper

Uses formal academic writing style

and has a clean structure

Its body contains the summary and

the detailed evaluation about it
Purpose of Critique Paper
Gauge the usefulness or impact of a
work in a field

- Creativity – how well it is done

- Message – convey or render
- Impact – affect the field discipline it
belongs to
Critical Approaches

Formalism

- claims that all literary works

have intrinsic properties and
treats each work as a distinct
work of art

- It is about the elements of the

text you criticize (text form)
Reader – Response Criticism

- concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as

the audience of a literary work

- claims that the reader’s role cannot be

separated from the understanding of the
work

- claims that a text does not have meaning

until the reader reads and interprets it

- criticism is focused on the meaning 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. e.g. situation of women, work
opportunity, treatment, and view

- how men and women are presented

 Marxism Criticism
- concerned with the differences between
economic classes

- attempts to reveal that the ultimate source

of people’s experiences is the social-
economic system
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