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  2. Critic - Wikipedia

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    The word "critic" comes from Greek κριτικός (kritikós) 'able to discern', [2] which is a Greek derivation of the word κριτής (krités), meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation or observation. [3]

  3. Critical friend - Wikipedia

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    A critical friend is a supportive person who can ask difficult questions using critical thinking to judge a situation. [1] The term has its origins in critical pedagogy education reforms in the 1970s and arose out of the self-appraisal activity which is attributed to Desmond Nuttall. [2] One of the most widely used definitions is from 1993,

  4. Critical literacy - Wikipedia

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    Critical literacy is the application of critical social theory to literacy. [1] Critical literacy finds embedded discrimination in media [2] [3] by analyzing the messages promoting prejudiced power relationships found naturally in media and written material that go unnoticed otherwise by reading beyond the author's words and examining the manner in which the author has conveyed their ideas ...

  5. Worksheet - Wikipedia

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    It can be a printed page that a child completes with a writing instrument. No other materials are needed. In education, a worksheet may have questions for students and places to record answers. In accounting, a worksheet is, or was, a sheet of ruled paper with rows and columns on which an accountant could record information or perform calculations.

  6. Critique - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy is the application of critical thought, [3] and is the disciplined practice of processing the theory/praxis problem.In philosophical contexts, such as law or academics, critique is most influenced by Kant's use of the term to mean a reflective examination of the validity and limits of a human capacity or of a set of philosophical claims.

  7. Critical lens - Wikipedia

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    A critical lens is a way of looking at a particular work of literature by focusing on style choices, plot devices, and character interactions and how they show a certain theme (the lens in question). It is a common literary analysis technique.

  8. Thing theory - Wikipedia

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    Thing theory is a branch of critical theory that focuses on human–object interactions in literature and culture. It borrows from Heidegger's distinction between objects and things, which posits that an object becomes a thing when it can no longer serve its common function. [1]

  9. Varieties of criticism - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetic criticism is a part of aesthetics concerned with critically judging beauty and ugliness, tastefulness and tastelessness, style and fashion, meaning and quality of design—and issues of human sentiment and affect (the evoking of pleasure and pain, likes and dislikes).