Great pointers for what makes for helpful critique!
Judy Reeves, author ofWriting Alone, Writing Together, offered this comment to my first post about feedback:
“Thanks for this post, Rosanne. I know from personal experience how criticism can do harm, but I also know critique is valuable to me as a writer and to those writers I work with. I wanted to pass along a list of what I found the differences to be between critique and criticism.”
The distinctions Judy offers come from Writing Alone, Writing Together in a section aptly titled “The Difference between Critique and Criticism Is Like the Difference between a Crystal Ball and a Wrecking Ball.”
“Criticism finds fault
Critique looks at structureCriticism looks for what’s lacking
Critique finds what’s workingCriticism condemns what it doesn’t understand
Critique asks for clarificationCriticism is spoken with a cruel wit and sarcastic tongue
Critique is positive (even about what isn’t working)Criticism is…
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