Critique Paper

• Critiquing


  A systematic way of highlighting weakness and strengths and its applicability to practice
• Experts affirm that almost every reader can identify the strengths and weaknesses of a masterpiece
• Critique


  An exercise in judging the value of a piece of writing or research. It is also a way of improving your own skills by looking at the way other writers and researchers work. It is a valuable exercise in the careful reading of text that will increase your understanding of a particular subject.
• Functions of being a critic

  • Introduce the author/work
  • Ignite interest on a neglected work
  • Show relationship between ages and cultures
  • Contribute to better understanding of a work
  • Make a study on art and its "making"
  • Introduce the relationship of art and life
• A critique is the paper that exercises the value of a piece of writing or research while a critic is a person who writes a critique
• Criticism aims to find excellence and perfections, not simply finding fault/mistakes or wrong
• Steps to write a critique

  1. Analyze the text

  2. Evaluate the text

  3. Write in standard essay form
• Parts of a critique

  • Introduction
  • Main body
  • Conclusion
• A critique should be written in an essay format with an introduction, a main body of text and a conclusion