[ SECRET POST #3058 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3058 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Ughhhhh

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen OP mention that their critiques were supposed to be professional and objective.

Re: Ughhhhh

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I'm not sure how it works in the college they're going to, but in my university courses, the goal was to achieve a professional standard of writing when it comes to critiques. Maybe that's different in other countries, though. But in my classes, a text written in the way OP's critique was written would probably not have been accepted for sounding too colloquial.
But even if that wasn't the case/this isn't actually a college/uni-class but some other kind, it still sounds too judgy and subjective to be of any real help for the writer. Because it's not a critique of the writing, for the most part, but rather a "Ugh, this squicks me" and "but my FEELS say it's bad".

Re: Ughhhhh

[(Anonymous)]

Except that's precisely the point of writing class critiques/workshopping. They're meant to be professional and objective, and if OP's class is anything like the ones I've been involved with, the expectations for the correct kind of critique would have been made quite clear prior to the workshop starting.

It's pretty telling to me that the class teacher had to take OP aside and reiterate that this kind of comment has no place in writing critique.

I think you may be confusing the kind of feedback acceptable on fanwork (where people feel the need to bring up their squicks, whether they're relevant or not, and, unlike when you're critiquing in a writing workshop, you don't actually have to read those fics) with the kind appropriate for a writing class.

Re: Ughhhhh

[(Anonymous)]

OP doesn't have to mention that, because anyone who's taken a writing course that features peer critique knows that's how critique is supposed to work. The point of a writing class is to improve one's technical skills, and the point of the critique portion is both for the writer to receive feedback that is necessary for that improvement, and for their classmates to learn how to critically evaluate a piece of writing. The point is not for the critiquer to complain about how a story they're critiquing goes against their personal preferences. No one cares if you don't like the subject matter. It's entirely beside the point, because it doesn't help the writer improve their skills, it just tells them what you personally prefer.