Reading Assignment

I found the article helpful and refreshing. Criticism can be hard to give and accept, specially if the audience criticizing comes from a different background. Its hard to comment on work that you are not familiar at all with whether is cultural, lifestyle or religious back ground. I like the way the essay is set up in terms of how to evaluate and go about giving and receiving feedback. Its good to know how to handle tough criticism and that it is OK to ask questions on why the person doing the critiquing sees thing in that way and what could be done to improve the work.
Something that I also found very helpful was to not automatically make changes to your work to please one critic but to collect all feedback and apply it as a whole to your work, but not let it loose your ideas. As a student, I have faced the difficult challenge of having to change my work to please the critic and feeling like it had lost meaning.
I will try to use this article as a reference on how to critique work in the future.
(I feel that while in school, all of us are at the mercy of our professors because they have the grade book. At least in my experiences here at UNC, I have felt that what is considered Good or bad was determined by the instructor and not fully by the feedback received in general to the work by all of the people involved in the critique. Given some have given some great advice on why a work should be changed regardless of what other things were said) I hope I not being too critical