Brad Williams has âhyperthymestic syndromeââextraordinary autobiographical recall for daily life events. He has a diary-like recall of ordinary, daily events that most everyone else would have discarded, or at least relegated to memory storage not ordinarily accessible.
WRITING THE CRITICAL RESPONSE. --adapted from Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, 4th edition, Writing: Invention Forma and Style. by Podis & Podis, The Purposeful Writer by Donna Gorrell. A critique is an analysis of and a commentary on another piece of writing. It generally. focuses on technique as well as on content. A critical response essay (or interpretive. essay or review) has two missions: to summarize a sourceâs main idea and to respond to. the sourceâs main ideas with reactions based on your synthesis. Summarizing. The first step to writing is to read actively and thoughtfully, seeking answers to the.
How to Write a Critical Essay. A critical essay is an analysis of a text such as a book, film, article, or painting. The goal of this type of paper is to offer a text or an interpretation of some aspect of a text or to situate the text in a broader context. For example, a critical analysis of a book might focus on the tone of the text to determine how that tone influences the meaning of the text overall. Or, a critical analysis of a film might focus on the significance of a recurring symbol in the film.