EAPP

• Opinion:

  • Opinions are personal views on specific issues or concerns
  • Citing specific sources to support claims adds credibility and validity to opinions
  • Presenting ideas convincingly with true and correct information makes others more likely to believe you
• Approaches in Literary Criticism:

  • A genre of academic writing that briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept
  • Uses a formal, academic writing style with a clear structure
  • The body of the writing contains a summary of the subject and a detailed evaluation of it
• CRTIQUES CAN BE USED TO EVALUATE: CREATIVE WORKS RESEARCHES MEDIA
• Critique paper is a genre of academic writing that briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept
• It is used to carefully analyze a variety of works including:

  • Creative Works such as novels, exhibits, films, shows, images, and poetry
  • Researches like monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, and theories
  • Media like news reports and feature articles
• Critique involves judging or evaluating someone or something
• Critical approaches, sometimes called "lenses," are different perspectives used in analyzing or interpreting a text
• They are a way to write a critique
• Formalist Criticism:

  • Regards literature as a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms
  • Primary goal is to determine how elements of form (style, structure, tone, imagery, etc.) work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers
• Historical Criticism:

  • Seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it
  • Key goal is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers
• Reader-Response Criticism:

  • Fundamental tenet is that literature exists as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader
  • Attempts to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text
  • Reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process
• Media Criticism:

  • Act of closely examining and judging the media
  • Often finds instances of media bias, which is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner
• Gender Criticism:

  • Examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works
  • Includes approaches like the "masculinist" approach and feminism, which focuses on patriarchal attitudes in literature
• Marxist Criticism:

  • Focuses on the economic and political elements of art
  • Emphasizes the ideological content of literature
  • Argues that all art is political, either challenging or endorsing the status quo
• Moralist Criticism:

  • Studies literature from the moral/intellectual perspective
  • Aims to determine if a work conveys a lesson or message that can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world