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1. Open and read the “How to write a critique” document in the resources menu.

Describe what is a critique.

Critique is when you have an article and after reading it you then find the main points/facts on the particular topic and write them down. This will then make it a brief and short story but it should give the story well if you do the critiquing right.

2. Outline the FOUR stages in a critique.

1. The first stage when critiquing is to do a introduction - naming the article and its topic and any important facts you might need to name in the beginning.

2. Next is the summary - give a clear and consist summary of the original story (no more than 1/3 of the original). Don’t include your opinion in this section when critiquing. MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS!

3. After that you can start to analysis the article for any strengths and weaknesses - You should follow the following criteria; Importance, Interpretation of data, Expert opinion, Consistency, Did you find errors of facts and interpretation?, What underlying assumptions does the author have?

4. Last is the evaluation - Figure out weather the article is of good or bad value. You can give a general comment and/or message on the topic (remember, can be either positive or negative or even both)

5. This section is optional, Conclution -summerise what you have talked about in full and give any last comments on the subject.

3. Can a critique be positive? Discuss.

Yes a critique can be positive. It all depends on the article and if that source of media has changed the story to either make it more interesting for the reader. Its positive if it is a original story and have good and reliable source and/or evidence. But also when you critique and when someone reads it, they won’t be getting the whole story, just the many parts, so it really won’t be as accurate as the original story would be.

4. Critique the accuracy of the following articles:

Video 1;  

The Beijing Olympics:Are they a Trap?     

News report from the Onion News Network. There are claims that Beijing Olympics is going to be a trap.

It is reported that China and the Beijing Olympics are just a giant trap and are going to  take away Olympic athletes during the time of this event. It is said by this source that they have been preparing for the last 1000 years. Digging holes for athletes to fall into, training people in parks to become killing machines.

In this report on the Beijing Olympics, interpretedall wrong. They took the idea of the Chinese preparing for the Olympics to preparing to take over the people going there. For example, I quote, these Asian Chinese in their parks training to become killing machines. The whole story is basically a very big misunderstanding.

This article is just bad publicity to the upcoming Beijing Oylimpics. There is know point in this story, it just a comedic act.

Video 2;