Choose Your Topic

The first step includes choosing your topic. Most of the times, this topic is already assigned to you by the examiner.

Search for Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources

As soon as being assigned with a topic, look up for all the possible resources. As mentioned earlier, these can be both your primary and secondary sources. Secondary sources, just to make clear, are supplementary materials or on the desk data that is already recorded and you only need to gather it from places like a library or the internet.

Organize Your Reading Material

Once you are done with gathering all the sources, it is now time to read up on all of them having an objective in mind such that you are able to recall them once read. The important details you find in these sources are likely to be used in order to form a thesis statement.

Format a Hypothesis/ Thesis Statement/ Topic

After having a thesis statement for your essay, write a detailed outline for your critical essay. Make sure your thesis reflects in every point of the outline that you are going to be elaborating in the critical essay.

Guidelines for Writing a Critical Essay

Introduction Writing

Write a brief introduction that should be somewhat between three to five lines briefly stating the thesis statement. The introduction should also comprise of the name of the work that you are analyzing and the author or artist of the work. It should also state your position on the work and what led you to develop the arguments that you will further be talking about throughout the body of your critical essay.

Body Development

Collect and Present from the Primary Sources

Summarize each of the primary sources that you are using separately in the body paragraphs. One of the most common mistakes made by some writers while writing critical essays is that they make long summaries.

Analyze and Argue with Evidence

Write an evaluation of each primary source along with the summary. In addition to this, discuss the type of evidence the author uses to author uses to support the arguments in the book or the artist for a play or painting.

State Arguments in Lieu with Your Position

State your arguments along with the main supporting points. This plays the most important role in a critical essay. The argument, if not against the author whose work you are considering, could talk about what convinced you towards the author’s work. Use evidence from sources to support your argument. Any claim that you make must be based upon logical evidence.

Formatting Conclusion of a Critical Essay

The conclusion of your critical essay should restate your position and summarize how your evidence supports your perspective. Remember to restate the title and the author of the work that you are critically reviewing in your conclusion.

Form of control: Writing a critical essay

Independent work # 4

Theme: Computer-Mediated Discourse by Susan C. Herring

Task 1: Critical review of the scientific abstract devoted tocomputer-mediated discourse by outlining its main conclusions, summarizing and evaluating this abstract.

Before writing plan your critical review:

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