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The document discusses various approaches to critiquing creative works including scholarly works, art, designs, and graphic designs. It outlines four main approaches: formalism focuses on intrinsic properties of the work itself; feminist criticism analyzes gender presentation and patriarchal influences; reader-response criticism considers the reader's reaction and interpretation; and Marxist criticism examines social classes and capitalist implications portrayed. Each approach looks at different technical and conceptual aspects involved in critically analyzing materials.

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Reaction Paper

The document discusses various approaches to critiquing creative works including scholarly works, art, designs, and graphic designs. It outlines four main approaches: formalism focuses on intrinsic properties of the work itself; feminist criticism analyzes gender presentation and patriarchal influences; reader-response criticism considers the reader's reaction and interpretation; and Marxist criticism examines social classes and capitalist implications portrayed. Each approach looks at different technical and conceptual aspects involved in critically analyzing materials.

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Reaction paper, a review, and a critique are specialized forms of writing in

which a reviewer or reader evaluates any of the following:

A scholarly work (e.g., academic books and articles)

A work of art (e.g., performance art, play, dance, sports, film, exhibits)

Designs (e.g., industrial designs, furniture, fashion design)

Graphic designs (e.g., posters, billboards, commercials, and digital media)


Reaction papers, reviews, critiques usually range in length from 250-750 words.
They are not simply summaries but are critical assessments,analyses, or
evaluation of different works. As advanced forms of writing, they involve your
skills in critical thinking and recognizing arguments.However, you
should connect the word critique to cynicism and pessimism.

CRITICAL APPROACHES IN WRITING CRITIQUE

There are various ways or standpoints by which you can analyze and critique a
certain material. You can critique a material based on its technicalaspects, its
approach to gender, your reaction as the audience, or through its portrayal of
class struggle and social structure.

Formalism-
claims that literary works contain intrinsic properties and treats each work as a
distinct work of art. In short, it posits that the key tounderstanding a text is
through the text itself- the historical content, the author, or any other external
contents are not necessary in interpreting the meaning.

Feminist Criticism-
also called feminism, it focuses on how literature presents women as sub2ects
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. The common aspects looked into when using
feminism are as follows:

How culture determines gender


How gender equality (or lack of it) is presented in the text
How gender issues are presented in literary works and other aspects of human
production and daily life
How women are socially, politically, psychologically, and economically
oppressed by patriarchy
How patriarchal ideology is an overpowering presence

Reader-Response Criticism-
is concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as an audience of a work.
this approach claims that the reader’s role cannotbe separated from the
understanding of the work- a text does not have meaning until the reader reads
it and interprets it. Readers are thereforenot passive and distant, but are
active consumers of the material presented to them. The common aspects
looked into when using readerresponse criticism are as follows:

Interaction between the reader and the text in creating meaning

The impact of the reader’s delivery of sounds and visuals on enhancing and
changing meaning

Marxzist Criticism-
is concerned with differences between economic classes and implications of a
capitalist system, such as the continuing conflictsbetween the working class and
the elite. Hence, it attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people’s
experience is the socioeconomic system.The common aspects looked into when
using Marxist criticism are as follows:

Social class as represented in the work

Social class of the writer creator

Social class of the characters

Conflicts and interactions between economic classes

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