The document discusses different approaches to writing a critique, including formalist criticism, reader-response criticism, feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, historical approach, and biological approach. It provides details on each approach, such as formalist criticism focusing on elements of the text like characters, setting, and plot. Reader-response criticism asserts that meaning depends on how the reader interprets the text. Feminist criticism examines the portrayal and roles of women. Marxist criticism concerns class differences. The historical approach recognizes the effect of social/cultural environments, while the biological approach considers an author's life and background.

1. RECAP

2. 1. IT A WRITTEN PLAN THAT SERVES AS
AN SKELETON FOR THE PARAGRAPHS
TO WRITE?
OUTLINING
2. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF
WRITING AN OUTLINE?
* Topic Outlining
* Sentence Outlining
2. WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF
OUTLINING?

3. E-VALUE-WAIT
•The situation that we face every single day with an
invisible threat around is indeed very dangerous for
everyone. A cellphone is undoubtedly one of the most
helpful gadget one can have especially in continuing
learning. With the help of anyone at home who owns a
cellphone, or if you own one, check out its physical look
and the features it has. Share it to the class.

4. THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ABOVE
ARE SOME OF THE ESSENTIAL
INFORMATION YOU WILL CONSIDER AS YOU
CREATE A CRITIQUE OR REVIEW.
1. What do you think are the features of the cellphone you reviewed?
2. Do you think others will be interested to have this cellphone too?
3. What about its limitations?
4. How do you deal with these?

5. LEARNING COMPETENCY:
USES APPROPRIATE CRITICAL APPROACHES IN WRITING
A CRITIQUE SUCH AS FORMALISM, FEMINISM, ETC.
(CS_EN11/12A-EAPP-ID-F-16)
•At the end of our lesson, I am expecting you to:
•1. define critique.
•2. identify the various approaches writing a critique.
•3. criticize the texts using the different approaches of
criticism;and
•4. apply the appropriate critical approaches in writing your
critique.

6. WHAT IS A CRITIQUE PAPER?
•Is a genre of academic writing
•Briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a
work or concept.
•Used to carefully analyze a variety of work.
•It is a formal, academic writing style and has a
clear structure.

8. CRITIQUE
•To judge or evaluate someone or
something
CRITIC
CRITICIZE
•The product of critizing
•The paper or essay.
•The person doing criticism.

9. WHY DO WE MAKE CRITIQUES?
•Gauge the useful or impact of a work in a
field.
•- Creativity
•-Message
•-Impact

10. CRITICAL APPROACHES IN WRITING
CRITIQUE
•1. FORMALIST CRITICISM-
• -Claims that literary works have intrinsic properties and
treats each woks as a distinct work of art.
ELEMENTS OF
THE TEXTS
CHARACTERS
SETTING
CONFLICT
PLOT
POINT OF VIEW

11. •This is the most basic of all approaches and relies on
what can be said of the event or phenomenon on the
basis of form, content, and style. If you use this
approach, be prepared to discuss the event, place, or
thing in relation to its structure, message, and theme.
•Similarly, when you write a book review using this
approach, your intent is to evaluate the merit of the
book in terms of its structure, symbols, and meaning.

12. WE LOOK INTO THE FOLLOWING
•Movie
•Painting

13. WE LOOK INTO THE FOLLOWING
•Restaurant
•Poems

14. WE LOOK INTO THE FOLLOWING
• Story
• Essay
• Gadgets

17. 2. FEMINIST CRITICISM

19. 2. READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
•Affirms that the meaning of texts depends on how a reader
reacts to it. Its focus is on the reading process and how it
affects the reader’s understanding of meaning in a text.
Reader-Response Approach primarily deals with the process
of creating meaning and experiencing the text as it is being
read. Hence, the text serves an experience that lives in the
reader’s imagination.
•Claims that a text does not have meaning until the reader
reads and interprets it.

20. CRITICISM IS FOCUSED ON THE MESSAGE
OF THE TEXT
•How do you feel after reading the
texts?
•What are the lessons you learned
from the story?

22. 3. FEMINIST CRITICISM
•Is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women
in a literary text. This approach asserts that most literature
throughout time has been written only by men, for men.
Feminist critics examine the female consciousness being
depicted by both male and female writers.
•Focuses on how literature presents women as a subjects of
socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression.

23. •It has been argued that men and women think
differently and therefore construct meaning differently.
If you use this approach, you need to consider the
work in terms of your sexual identity, as well as those
involved in the event. In writing about an event using
this approach, you need to view it from your own
vantage point as either a male or a female.
•When reviewing a book using this approach, you might
wish to consider the roles given to men in relation to
those given to women to see if they are treated equally,

25. 4. MARXIST CRITICISM
•Concerned with the differences
between economical classes.

28. 5. HISTORICAL APPROACH
• This approach recognizes that the social and cultural environments have a
tremendous effect on events and situations. When you use this approach, you
should consider the time, social milieu, political climate, and socio-political
context in relation to the event or phenomenon that you are writing about.
• Social, cultural and intellectual context,

29. 6. BIOLOGICAL
APPROACH
• This approach is premised on the fact that the author’s life has a
significant bearing on how the work is written and how it will take shape.
Circumstances including the author’s education, background, and way of
life are reflected in the writing. This approach is based on the premise
that in the act of writing, the author is not just writing about the work but
bringing into the work an entire belief system and a whole set of
circumstances, both past and present.
• Author’s life
• Contends that to better understand any text, the author’s life and
background must be taken in to account. Knowing the author’s
personal experiences, his struggles and successes in life, can help the

30. ASSESSME
NT
•1. It asserts that a great deal of
meaning in a text lies with how the
reader responds to it.
•2. Focuses on close readings of
texts and analysis of the effects of
literary elements and techniques on
the text.
• 3. It is concerned with the role,

31. •4. It argues that we must take an author’s life
and background into account when we study a
text.
•5. It argues that every literary work is a
product of its time and its world.
•6. Concerned with understanding the role of
power, politics, and money in literary texts.
•7-12. Enumerate the critical approaches in
writing critique