Write an essay that reviews the text of an author

Write an essay that reviews the text of an author

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The Critical Analysis –

Purpose and Audience

When you write an essay that reviews the text of an author, your purpose is to evaluate the potential of their work for the community to whom the text is relevant. For example, if you are writing a critical analysis of an article in physics, then your commentary should be directed to members of that scholarly community.

In writing your critical analysis, you are sharing your assessment of the text and supporting your evaluative position. In other words, your critical analysis should speak to the issues and concerns of the academic community for whom you are writing.

In general, there are many ways that you can write a critical analysis, but the most common is to:

• provide an introduction that mentions the author and title of the work, along with a brief interpretive summary of his or her main point/s,
• present what you believe are the most important strengths and weaknesses of the text in the form of an argumentative claim, -and-
• support the claim with appropriate and convincing evidence.

You do not need to come up with commentaries about every aspect of the text, but focus on a select few that you believe need addressing. You should write the critical analysis as an argument, that is, you must be able to present your evaluation of the article convincingly. You may use examples from the text itself or draw from other disciplinary sources (class discussions, notes, or readings) to support your claims about the value of the text.

This assignment will help you learn to recognize an author’s claims and the logic of his or her argument. It will also help you to begin to position yourself in relation to information in your major as you find yourself agreeing or disagreeing with certain information or aspects of information over others.

Finally, the critical analysis will help you begin to understand that in order to improve upon our current understandings of phenomena, scholars must dismantle the work of others to create new ways of thinking (theories, methods, etc.).

For the purpose of this assignment, you should assume that your readers have not read the original text. Convince them that your evaluation is plausible by presenting enough detail and explanation so that they can “see” the evaluation of the text as you do.

Requirements

Your critical review should be approximately 5-6 pages (summary and critique combined), typed, double-spaced, using standard APA margins, type-size, and spacing. The first portion you’ll write will be the summary, which will lead into your critique.

By nature, a critical analysis is subjective. You will make particular claims about the article based on your subjective interpretation. Your goal, then, is to look at a text written from a new perspective. This might mean that you find the “gaps” in the writer’s argument by identifying any pertinent information that has been neglected. Likewise, you might reinterpret the use and/or application of supporting data within the text. As Mathison explains,

“Some of the intellectual tools in the students’ critiques that were regarded highly by the professors included:

(1) looking for the main points of the argument;

(2) determining the meaning and assumptions of the argument;

(3) judging the strengths and weaknesses of the various claims in the argument;

(4) engaging in the argument as a critic, persuading others of the validity of a critique by providing lines of reasoning” (159).