ENGS 44
Literature
Critiques:
Every so often during the term, students will be given a number of documents (book chapters, magazine articles, etc.) which they are to read and critique in writing, as follows:
1. Title, author(s), source, year
2. Brief summary (3 to 10 lines)
3. Source of information (new data, new analysis of existing data, author’s personal opinion, ...)
4. Targeted readership (and possibly reason for this choice)
5. Conclusions derived from the information (findings, points made, distinction between certainty and likelihood, recommendations, ...)
6. Student’s own opinion (3 to 10 lines) (student’s reaction, disagreement with or reinforcement of a point made by the author, comparison with other documents or personal experience, extrapolation into future, …).
Grading of critiques will be performed as follows:
0 point – Critique not done or greatly deficient
1 point – Deficient critique (mixing of items between summary and conclusions; vague or ill-argued opinion, …)
2 points – Critique meeting expectations
3 points – Critique exceeding expectations (precise yet succinct summary and conclusions, unusually thoughtful opinion, …)