Tips. 1  If a source does not have an author, cite it in-text by using the first word or two of its title. In the reference list, begin the citation with the work's complete title. 2  If an organization is the author, use it in place of a person's name both in-text and in your reference list.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Redaction criticism, also called Redaktionsgeschichte, Kompositionsgeschichte, or Redaktionstheologie, is a critical method for the study of biblical texts. Redaction criticism regards the author of the text as editor of his or her source materials.
Pentadic rhetorical criticism looks at the who, what, when/where, why, and how of the speech or text; in other words, this type of criticism examines the agent, act, scene, purpose, and agency (to put it in terms more familiar to communication scholars).