Colegio de San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila

Senior High School

12- STEM

A WRITTEN REPORT

in

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC

AND

PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

LESSON 6: Uses appropriate critical writing a critique as formalism,

feminism, etc.

CRITIQUE

CRITICAL APPROACHES

Members:

Pearl Alynna Shanane C. Balleta

Shaina Marino

Via Meregildo
 CRITIQUE

As a verb, critique means to review or examine something critically. As a noun, a critique is

that review or examination, like an art, essay or a book report. According to Encyclopedia

Britannica, a critique is a careful judgement which you can give your opinion about the good and

bad parts of something ( such as a piece of writing or a work of art).

A critique evaluates a resource. It requires both critical reading and analysis in order to

present the strength and weakness of a particular resource for readers. The critique includes

your opinion of the work.

Critiques can be used to evaluate:

 Creative works: novels, exhibits, film, images, poetry.

 Research: monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories.

 Media: news reports and feature articles.

A critique uses a formal, academic writing style and has a clear structure, that is , an

introduction, body, and conclusion.

The body of a critique includes a summary of the work and detailed evaluation

Why do we write critiques?

It helps us to develop:

 A knowledge of the work's subject are a or related works.

 An understanding of the work's purpose, intended, development or argument, structure

of evidence or creative style.

 A recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of the work.

The purpose for writing a critique is to evaluate somebody's work in order to increase the

reader's understanding of it.

How to write a critique

1. Have a thorough understanding of the work that will be critiqued.

2. Study the work under discussion

3. Make notes on key parts of the works

4. Develop and understanding of the main arguments or purpose expressed in the work.

5. Consider how the work relates to a broader issues or context.

6. Read about the critical approaches .

How do you critique a speech?

Determine wheter the speaker used facts and anecdotes to make a convincing case.

Decide if his or her style was engaging enough to keep your attention through the end.

How do you critique an article title?

1. Introduce your reader to the title of the article, the author, and the main point of the

article.

2. Provide a brief summary of the article in your own words.

3. Begin the critique. This can be multiple paragraphs, but follow any specific guidelines

from your instructor.

4. Conclusion.
Lesson 1: Objective Assessment

Opinions are your views of certain issues or concerns.

Phrases that you can use :

I think...
From my point of view
I believe...
From my perspective
I feel...
In my view
In my opinion...
It seems to that
I would say...

These are examples of ways to express your opinion:

1. I think technology is harmful.

2. In my view, technology is not useful and helpful.

3. In my opinion, technology is very important nowadays.

Informal situation: Technology is harmful.

You are entitled to your own opinions, but these opinions must based on facts so that you will

not be biased

It is very important that you will not be focused only on giving opinions. You must also look for

information that will help support your opinion because-

 this will add to credibility and validity of your opinion, and

 more will believe you if what you express is strongly supported with information that are

true and correct.

Lesson 1: Approaches in Literary Criticism

Examples of terms that we can use the following disciplines:

Science
Mathematics General Terms
Experiment
Equation Test
Lab equipment
Statistical Tool Material
Invention
Solution Action
Laboratory test
Results Pregnancy test
Hormones and Genes
Equivalent values Family

Learning appropriate language and manner is not enough in expressing your views. There are

critical approaches that you can use to make it more convincing and appropriate.

Critical Approaches

1. Formalist Criticism

- This approach regards literature as " a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be

examined on its own terms.

- All elements necessary for understanding the work are contained within the work itself.

-Particular interes to the formalist critic are the elements of form- style, structure, tone, image

and etc.

-that are found within the text.

2. Feminist Criticism

- Focuses on how literature presents women as subjects or socio-political, psychological and

economic oppression.

-tends to reveal the patriarchal aspects of our culture.

- this approach you can criticize literally work, looking how men and women where presented.

3. Historical Criticism
- This approach " seeks to understand to literary work by investigating the social cultural, and

intellectual context that produced It- a context that necessarily includes the artists biography

and millen".

- A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of a literary work upon it's original

readers.

4. Reader- Response Criticism

- This approach take as a fundamental tenet that "literature" exist not as an artifact upon a

printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.

5. Media Criticism

- It is the act of closely examining and judging the media. Media bias is the perception that the

media is reporting news in a particular or prejudiced manner.

6. Marxist Criticism

- it focuses on the economic and political elements of art.

7. Structuralism

- It focuses on how human behavior is determined by social, cultural and psychological

structures. The essences of structuralism in the belief that " things cannot be understood in

isolation, they have to ba seen in the context of larger structures which contain them.

ASSESSMENT:

True or False

1. A critique does not evaluates a resource. F

2. The critique uses an informal writing style and has no clear structure. F

3.The critique includes your opinion of the work. T

4. The body of a critique includes a summary of the work and detailed evaluation. T

5. In expressing your opinion, it must be based on facts. T

Identification

6. Is a careful judgement which you can give your opinion about the good and bad parts of

something. ( Critique )

7. it focused on how human behavior is determined by social, cultural, and psychological

structures. ( Structuralism )

8. It is the act of closely examining and judging the media. ( Media Criticism )

9. It is your views of certain issues or concerns. ( Opinion )

10. A unique from of knowledge that needs to be examined. ( Formalist Criticism )

11. This approach " seeks yo understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and

intellectual context that produced. ( Historical Criticism)

12. It focuses on the economic and political elements of art. ( Marxist Criticism)

13. A approach that a transaction between the physical text and mind of a reader. ( Reader -

Response Critism)

14.Focuses on how literature presents women as subjects or socio-political, psychological and

economic oppression. ( Feminist Criticism)

15-20 Give at least five (5) phrases that you can use in expressing your opinion.

Ans.

I think, I believe, I feel, In my opinion, I would say, from my point of view, from my perspective, in

my view, it seems to that.