READING APPROACHES

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is a genre of academic writing.

briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept.

used to carefully analyze a variety of works.

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CRITIQUE PAPER

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novels, exhibits, films, shows, images, poetry;

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Creative Works

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monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories;

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Researches

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news reports, feature articles.

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Media

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to judge or to evaluate someone or something

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CRITICIZE

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the paper or essay
– the product of criticizing

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CRITIQUE

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the person doing the criticism

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CRITIC

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sometimes called “lenses”, are the different perspectives we can consider in analyzing or interpreting a text.
A way to write a critique.

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CRITICAL APPROACHES

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This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.”
A primary goal for this critics 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.

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FORMALIST CRITICISM

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A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers.

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HISTORICAL CRITICISM

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It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.

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READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM

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Media criticism is the act of closely examining and judging the media.
When we examine the media and various media stories, we often find instances of media bias. Media bias is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner

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MEDIA CRITICISM

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Includes a number of approaches, including the so-called “masculinist” approach and feminism which takes as a central precept that the patriarchal attitudes that have dominated Western thought have resulted, consciously or unconsciously, in literature “full of unexamined ‘male-produced’ assumptions.”

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GENDER CRITICISM

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It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature.

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MARXIST CRITICISM

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To study literature from the moral/intellectual perspective is therefore to determine whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.

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MORALIST CRITICISM