2. English for Academic and Professional
Purposes
• Quarter 1- Module 7: Critique Writing
3. What is Critique?
• A critique of an article is the objective analysis of a literary or
scientific piece, with emphasis on whether or not the author
supported the main points with reasonable and applicable arguments
based on facts. It’s easy to get caught up it. A good critique
demonstrates your impressions of the article, while providing ample
evidence to back up your impressions. As the critic, take time to read
carefully and thoughtfully, prepare your arguments and evidence, and
write clearly and cogently.
4. What is Critique?
• In writing a critique, it necessitates some in simply summarizing the
points of an article without truly analyzing and challenging active
reading which constitutes the following: read through the article once
to get the main idea; mark up the text as you read through it again;
create a legend for your markings; take some longer notes during
subsequent readings; and develop a preliminary concept for your
critique. These processes therefore made the writing of a critique to
have at least the required foundation to start with.
5. In this module, you will be able to:
• write an objective/balance review or critique of a work of art, an event or
program.
Specifically, you are expected to:
1. Evaluate a text, or performance either one’s own (a self-
critique) or someone else’s;
2. Peer review an article for publication in a scholarly journal; or
in education setting;
3. Critique the work emphasizing the contribution of the work to
the field; and
4. Appraise the work in terms of its shortcoming or limitations
6. Lesson 7: Critique Writing
• A critique is a genre of academic writing that briefly summarizes and
critically evaluates a work or concept. Critiques can be used to
carefully analyze a variety of works such as: Creative works – novels,
exhibits, film, images, and academic texts.
8. Guidelines in Writing the Three-body
Paragraphs:
• 1. Organize your critical evaluations. These should form the bulk of
your critique and should be a minimum of three paragraphs. You can
choose to organize your critique differently depending on how you
want to approach your critique. However, you should devote a
paragraph to each main topic, using the rest of the steps in this
section to develop each paragraph’s discussion.
9. Guidelines in Writing the Three-body
Paragraphs:
• 2. Discuss the techniques or styles used in the work. This is
particularly important when evaluating creative works, such as
literature, art, and music. Offer your evaluation of how effectively the
creator uses the techniques or stylistic choices she/he has made to
promote her/his purpose.
10. Guidelines in Writing the Three-body
Paragraphs:
• 3. Explain what types of evidence or argument are used. This may be
more useful in a critique of a media item or research article. Consider
how the author of the work uses other sources, their own evidence,
and logic in their arguments.
11. Guidelines in Writing the Three-body
Paragraphs:
• 4. Determine what the work adds to the understanding of its topic.
There are a couple of ways to approach this. Your goal in this section
should be an assessment of the overall usefulness of the work.
12. Guidelines in Writing the Three-body
Paragraphs:
• 5. Use examples for each point. Back up your assertions with
evidence from your text or work that support your claim about each
point. For example, if you were critiquing a novel and found the
writing dull, you might provide a particularly boring quotation as
evidence, and then explain why the writing did not appeal to you.
14. Writing the Conclusion Paragraph and
References:
• 1. State your overall assessment of the work. This should be a
statement about the overall success of the work. Did it accomplish
the creator’s goal or purpose? If so, how did it achieve this success? If
not, what went wrong?
15. Writing the Conclusion Paragraph and
References:
• 2. Summarize your key reasons for this assessment. While you should
have already presented evidence for your claims in the body
paragraphs, you should provide a short restatement of your key
reasons here. This could be as simple as one sentence that says
something like “Because of the researcher’s attention to detail,
careful methodology, and clear description of the results, this article
provides a useful overview of topic X.”
16. Writing the Conclusion Paragraph and
References:
• 3. Recommend any areas for improvement, if appropriate. Your
assignment or prompt will usually say if recommendations are
appropriate for the critique. This element seems to be more common
when critiquing a research article or media item, but it could also
apply to critiques of creative works as well.
17. Writing the Conclusion Paragraph and
References:
• 4. Provide a list of references. How you present these will depend on
your instructor’s preferences and the style (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)
that is appropriate to your discipline. However you format this list,
you should always include all the sources you used in your critique.
19. Writing the Introductory Paragraph:
• 1. Give the fundamental data about the work. The primary section is
first experience with the work, and you should give the fundamental
data about it in this passage. This data will incorporate the creator’s
or maker’s name(s), the title of the work, and the date of its creation.
20. Writing the Introductory Paragraph:
• 2. Give a setting to the work. The kind of setting you give will differ
dependent on what sort of work you’re assessing. You should expect
to give the peruser some comprehension of what gives the maker or
creator may have been reacting to, however you don’t have to give a
thorough history. Simply give your peruser enoughdata.
21. Writing the Introductory Paragraph:
• 3. Sum up the maker’s objective or reason in making the work. This
component ought to consider what the proposal or motivation
behind the work is. In some cases, this might be obviously expressed,
for example, in an examination article. For different writings or
inventive works, you may need to define what you accept to be the
maker’s objective or reason yourself.
22. Writing the Introductory Paragraph:
• 4. Sum up the central matters of the work. Depict, quickly, how the
central matters are made. For instance, you may discuss a work’s
utilization of characters or imagery to portray its point about society,
or you could discuss the exploration questions and theories in a diary
article.
23. Writing the Introductory Paragraph:
• 5. Present your underlying evaluation. This will fill in as your
proposition explanation and should make a case about the work’s
overall adequacy and additional handiness. Is your assessment going
to be essentially certain, negative, or blended?
25. Social occasion Evidence:
• 1. Question whether the essayist’s general message is sensible. Test
the theory and contrast it with other comparative models.
26. Social occasion Evidence:
• 2. Quest the article for any inclinations, regardless of whether
deliberate or unexpected. In the event that the writer has anything to
pick up from the ends exhibited in the article, it’s conceivable that
some predisposition has beenillustrated.
27. Social occasion Evidence:
• 3. Think about the creator’s translations of different writings. The
writer makes a case about another’s work, perused the first work and
check whether you concur with the examination given in the article.
Complete the understanding is clearly redundant or even likely; yet
consider whether the creator’s translation is solid.
28. Social occasion Evidence:
• 4. Notice if the creator refers to deceitful proof. Does the creator refer
to an immaterial book from fifty years prior that no longer holds
weight in the current order? If the author cites unreliable sources, is
greatly diminishes the credibility of the article.
29. Social occasion Evidence:
• 5. Don’t totally overlook expressive components. The substance of
the article is likely the most significant angle for your abstract
investigate, yet don’t disregard the formal and additionally scholarly
methods that the writer may utilize. Focus on dark word decisions
and the writer’s tone all through the article. This is especially useful
for non-logical articles managing parts of writing, for instance.
30. • 6. Question research techniques in logical articles. If critiquing an
article containing a scientific theory, be sure to evaluate the research
methods behind the experiment. Ask yourself inquiries, for
example,these:
• Does the creator detail the strategies completely?
• Is the examination planned without significant blemishes?
• Is there an issue with the example size?
• Was a benchmark group made for correlation?
• Are all of the statistical calculations correct?
31. Social occasion Evidence:
• 7. Burrow profound. Utilize your current information, taught
assessments, and any exploration you can assemble to either uphold
or differ with the writer’s article. Give exact contentions to help your
position.
32. Social occasion Evidence:
• 8. Recall that a study doesn’t need to be altogether certain or
negative. An author scholarly evaluates and never differs with the
creator; rather, they expand upon or confuse the creator’s thought
with extra proof.
34. Formatting Your Critique
• 1. Begin with an introduction that outlines your argument. The
introduction should be no more than two paragraphs long and should
lay out the basic framework for your critique. Start off by noting
where the article in question fails or succeeds most dramatically and
why.
35. Formatting Your Critique:
• 2. Provide evidence for your argument in the body paragraphs of your
critique. Each body paragraph should detail a new idea or further
expand your argument in a new direction.
36. Formatting Your Critique:
• 3. Complicate your argument near the end of the critique. No matter
how solid your argument is, there is always at least one dramatic way
in which you can provide a final twist or take your argument one step
further and suggest possible implications. Do this in the final body
paragraph before your conclusion to leave the reader with a final,
memorable argument.
37. Formatting Your Critique:
• 4. Present your arguments in a well-reasoned, objective tone. Avoid
writing in an overzealous or obnoxiously passionate tone, as doing so
can be a turn-off to many readers. Let your passion shine through in
your ability to do thorough research and articulate yourself
effectively.
38. Formatting Your Critique:
• 5. Conclude your critique by summarizing your argument and
suggesting potential implications. It is important to provide a recap of
your main points throughout the article, but you also need to tell the
reader what your critique means for the discipline at large.
40. Review:
• Guidelines in Writing the Three-body Paragraphs
1. Organize your critical evaluations.
2. Discuss the techniques or styles used in the work.
3. Explain what types of evidence or argument are used.
4. Determine what the work adds to the understanding of its topic.
5. Use examples for each point.
41. Review:
• Writing the Conclusion Paragraph and References
1. State your overall assessment of the work.
2. Summarize your key reasons for this assessment.
3. Recommend any areas for improvement, if appropriate.
4. Provide a list of references.
42. Review:
• Writing the Introductory Paragraph:
1. Give the fundamental data about the work.
2. Give a setting to the work.
3. Sum up the maker’s objective or reason in making the work.
4. Sum up the central matters of the work.
5. Present your underlying evaluation.
43. Review:
• Social occasion Evidence:
1. Question whether the essayist’s general message is sensible.
2. Quest the article for any inclinations, regardless of whether deliberate or
unexpected.
3. Think about the creator’s translations of different writings.
4. Notice if the creator refers to deceitful proof.
5. Don’t totally overlook expressive components.
6. Question research techniques in logical articles.
7. Burrow profound.
8. Recall that a study doesn’t need to be altogether certain or negative.
44. Review:
• Formatting Your Critique:
1. Begin with an introduction that outlines your argument.
2. Provide evidence for your argument in the body paragraphs of your
critique.
3. Complicate your argument near the end of the critique.
4. Present your arguments in a well-reasoned, objective tone.
5. Conclude your critique by summarizing your argument and
suggesting potential implications.
45. Activity
• Direction. Write a critique about the caricature below observing the
principles in critiquing. Write your critique on a whole sheet of paper.
