Review and Critique Paper

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Criti q u e P a pe r
If you encounter the word
CRITICIZE, what comes
to your mind?
Review Papers:
these are critical and
comprehensive reviews
that provide new insights
or interpretation of a
subject through
thorough and systematic
evaluation of available
evidence. Note, that a
review paper is more
than a literature
overview. It must contain
an in-depth critical
review of the literature.
Therefore, such a review
paper is expected to
have at least one
experienced senior
researcher among the
author
Your review will help the
editor decide whether or not
to publish the article:
•Does the paper provide

insight into an important
issue?
•Does the paper tell a good
story?
•Is the paper interesting for
an international audience?
•Does the insight from the
paper stimulate new,
important questions?
•Is there a high probability
that the paper will be read
and cited by others?
What is the difference between
Reaction and Review paper?
 Critiquing shares a root with the word
“criticize”. Most of us tend to think of
criticism as being negative or mean, but
in the academic sense, doing a critique is
not the least bit negative. Rather, it’s a
constructive way to better explore and
understand the material we are working
with. The word means “to evaluate”
 A thorough analysis of the text is
important to write a good paper.
Remember the judgment you make
about a work will reflect your own
values, biases, and experience; however,
you must respect the author's words
and intentions as presented in the work
 Do not analyze a work in terms of what
you would like to see; analyze it in terms
of what you actually observe. Remember
to clearly separate your assumptions from
the author's assumptions.
Approaches of
Critique Paper
FEMINISM
FORMALISM
FORMALISM FEMINISM
Formalism. It is a critical Feminism. This approach is concerned with
approach in which the text the ways in which the text reinforces or
under discussion is undermines the economic, political,
considered primarily in the social, and psychological oppression of
meaning and the women. This looks at how aspects of our
implications of the words. culture are inherently patriarchal (male
In practice, the critics dominated) and aims to expose misogyny
have been very responsible in writing about women, which can take
to the meaning and themes explicit and implicit forms. Feminist
of the work in question, criticism is also concerned with less
rather than adopting a obvious forms of marginalization and its
linguistic approach ultimate goal is to change the world by
promoting gender equality
FORMALISM FEMINISM
Below are the guide questions In critiquing a text using feminism
when critiquing a text using approach, the following guide questions
formalism approach:  How are are considered:  How is the life of
the various parts of the work women portrayed in the work?  Is the
interconnected?  How is the form and content of the work influenced
work structured? What by the writer‟s gender?  Does the
techniques, styles, media were work challenge or affirm traditional
used in the work? Are they views of women?  What does the work
effective in portraying the say about women's creativity?  What
purpose?  How does the does the work reveal about the actions
author's choice of point of of patriarchy?
view affect the reader's
understanding and feelings
about the text?
How to Write a Critique.
Start with the broad impressions first and then move

into the details of the technical elements. For shorter
critiques, you may discuss the strengths of the works,
and then the weaknesses. In longer critiques, you may
wish to discuss the positive and negative of each key
question in individual paragraphs. To support your critique,
provide evidence from the work itself, such as a quote or
example, and you should also cite evidence from
related sources. Explain how this evidence supports your
evaluation of the work.
INTRODUCTION
o Make it short. (only 10% of the paper)
o Context of the work (could be social or
political)
o Summarize the objective and main
points
BODY
o present the gauge of usefulness or impact of the
work in a particular field.
For instance, you would assess the text structure

and characterization; an assessment of a painting
would look at composition, brush strokes, colour
and light; a critique of a research project would
look at subject selection, design of the experiment,
analysis of data and conclusions.
Conclusion
This is usually a very brief paragraph, which includes a

statement indicating the overall evaluation of the work;
a summary of the key reasons, identified during the
critical evaluation, why this evaluation was formed; or,
recommendations for improvement on the work.
DIRECTIONS: Look for a poster related to
your track or strand. Paste it on a short bond
paper or print it (if the source is online).
Then write a critique about it using the
appropriate approaches such as formalism
and feminism. Please be guided by the
rubrics given.

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