Critiques can be used to carefully analyze a variety of works

A critique uses informal, academic writing style and has a clear structure: an introduction/ introductory sentence (main idea), body/ supporting sentences, and conclusion/ concluding sentence.

Introductory Sentence/ Main Idea

Supporting sentences/ critical evaluation using a critical approach with text-based or subject-based evidence

Concluding Sentence (Restating the main idea)

Note that critique can be compressed into one paragraph for as long as the three parts are present and it still follows the principle of 300 to 750 words.

Introduction

Summary

Body (detailed explanation and evidence using critical approach/es)

Conclusion

The author’s name(s) and the title of the article

The author’s main point

A thesis statement that previews your analysis

The main points of the article

The arguments presented in the article

The findings of the article

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the article that you noted while critically reading the article.

State your informed opinions about the clarity, relevancy, and accuracy of the article, using specific examples from the article to support your statements.

Summarize the key points in the article, as well the key points from your own analysis.

Close with a comment about the significance of the research or a statement of future research needed in the field.

Claims that literary works contain intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct work of art.

In short, it posits that the key to understanding a text is through the text itself; the historical context, the author, or any other external contexts are not necessary for interpreting the meaning.

Also called feminism, it focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression.

It also reveals how aspects of our culture are patriarchal, i.e., how our culture views men as superior and women as inferior.

Is concerned with differences between economic classes and implications of a capitalist system, such as the continuing conflicts between the working class and the elite.

Hence, it attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people's experience is the socioeconomic system.

Is concerned with the reviewer's reaction as an audience of a work.

This approach claims that the reader's role cannot be separated from the understanding of the work; a text does not have meaning until the reader reads it and interprets it.

Readers are therefore not passive and distant, but are active consumers of the material presented to them.