FINAL CRITIQUE PAPER

  • Very Briefly:This is a TWO-PAGE paper critiquing the speech performance of FOUR students (total).
  • The TYPEDpaper is due on your LAST DAY OF CLASS.
  • PURPOSE:Reflection, Critique, and Analysis
  • WHO IS CRITIQUED, DR. B??!? Three classmates (you choose) + YOU.
  • (Note that I said “AND” and not “OR.”)

More Details

You DO need to have a baby introduction and a baby conclusion (even one sentence each!).

1. Start with Student; develop an extended evaluation of their delivery—particularly how they’ve changed over the course of the class.

  1. Refer to at least three of the following for this classmate: Organisation, Nonverbals, Vocal style, Competence and Credibility, and/or delivery style (aka "Free-styling" vs outline vs reading).
  1. Be sure to include the things they have NOT improved upon, as well as some positive feedback and advice that you think might be helpful to them (fear not, they shan’t read it).
  1. This evaluation should be at least 1/3 of the page (which should be 12 point font, with 1-inch margins, and double-spaced.
  1. Move to the second classmate, and provide a similar evaluation of her or him. This, too, should take up 1/3 of the page.You guessed it—the third classmate’s evaluation follows.
  1. NOW…Spend the entire second page (or more if you want!) evaluating your OWN performance over the course of semester.
  1. This “self-critique” bit is just a longer version of the evaluation you’ve done for your classmates, with the addition of some coverage of the following topics:
  2. Your nervousness levels throughout the course,
  3. What “performance” elements (ie “remembering to make verbal citations”) you struggled with (from beginning of class to end-of-term),
  4. What you feel you still need to work on.
  5. How you feel you came across in your speeches,
  6. How you believe your classmates may have felt about particular things in your content and/or delivery.

Rubric for Final Critique

Perfect score—4/4

Typo-free

No grammatical issues at all

Correct and appropriate language

One FULL page dedicated to classmates and one FULL page dedicated to self

Evaluated THREE classmates and self

Addressed all required issues

Avoided irrelevant tangents

¾

1-3 typos, grammatical issues, errors

1-3 lines short of two full pages

No intro OR no conclusion

“Padding” the length of the paper (extra headings, etc.)

Spent less than one full page on three classmates

Evaluated less than three classmates

*1-2 tangents present

2/4

4 or more typos/grammatical issues

Length = 1 page + (second page is short of 4 or more lines) OR

Too much fluff and not much substance (Example 3)

Not typed

Neither intro NOR conclusion

Handed in AFTER due date (end of class)

*3-5 tangents present

¼

Less than one full page

No intro and no conclusion

Significant tangential material