Sample Critiques

Remember that critique-writing classwork we did last time? Well, here's a sample critique that another former student wrote in response to the essay you critiqued last time:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B59oU02C12STMDBQUmhjLWloMkk/edit.

And here's another sample critique, for an essay we've never read in class:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B59oU02C12STRVlKT0laLW53Tzg/edit.

Take a look at each of these critiques. Then decide: What are these critiques doing effectively? And what are they doing not-so-effectively? What lessons can you learn from these critiques that you can use in structuring your own critique better?