Write a critical review, a very common way writing “works” in the humanities. Simply put, a critical review is a summary and an evaluation of a text. For our purposes, a “text” is any object within the humanities that can be “read.” Beyond obviously text-based texts like books, articles, poems, and such, “texts” also include films, video games, music, websites, cultural artifacts, even clothing, foods, and buildings. The critical review, then, is your “read” of a selected “text”: What is it and what do you think of it? Also remember that in the humanities “criticism” is not limited to fault-finding, but often includes discussion of a text’s specific strengths as well. Many critical reviews try to explain the text’s effect on the critic, some reviews apply specific theories (like filters) to their “reading” (more on this later!), and others offer specific suggestions for improvement. To see these ideas at work, take a look at critical reviews in newspapers or magazines or online and see how they’re usually done. The New Yorker magazine is a particularly esteemed “popular-audience” source of critical reviews in the humanities. The working and final drafts of a critical review of Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese” under Course Materials offer another example. Also note that critical reviews, like many genres, appear across a range of contexts, from informal online posts to peer-reviewed academic journals.To write mini essay two, first choose a text to review. This can be almost anything, ideally a text you know well or would like to know better. “Read” and reread your selected text, taking notes about its overall purpose, its use of specific design elements or constituent components, and your responses along the way. Read actively as described in your textbook; ask yourself questions about the “text,” its creator, and its cultural context, its intended audience. When you compose your mini-essay be sure to summarize the text at hand sufficiently so your review will make sense to your audience, even if they are unfamiliar with the text you are reviewing. Once you’ve described a condensed form of the text to your audience, present a detailed evaluation and/or “reading” of the text from your perspective. Essentially, this is a version of the classic “summary and response” writing you have probably done before in other classes.
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