Last
week on Critique Wednesday, we talked about sweeping story analysis and how it provides some of the structure for your story.
Not exact matches
But, of course, by the end of the final
week of the games, I became the calloused Olympic viewer, watching with a bowl of ice cream
on my lap as a Chinese diver jumped three stories into the water, rotating three and a half times
on his way down, only to be
critiqued by me — ice cream lap girl — for making too big of a splash.
A few
weeks ago, just before election day 2016, I met two video people from Food & Wine at Sullivan Street (which hasn't changed much) and we taped a reunion, with Jim commenting
on and
critiquing my technique (which evidently isn't bad).
This
week two heavily critical reports were published
on Iain Duncan Smith's flagship Universal Credit programme, joining a long list of damning
critiques of his time as work and pension secretary.
At the same time, a Siena College poll this
week found more voters, 46 percent, view Cuomo as liberal — a designation that comes as the governor has opened up blistering
critiques of President Donald Trump
on issues like immigration and gun control.
Critics say that, as is, that's simply putting a Band Aid
on a larger wound: Just last
week, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, in a larger
critique of the problems at the much - maligned terminal, called that plan «a project born of political expediency,» noting that Cuomo has «brushed off more sweeping proposals that might tackle once and for all the whole panoply of problems that plague Penn Station.»
(An aide to Bloomberg, Howard Wolfson, responded to a similar
critique from de Blasio last
week by posting the mayor's post-Sandy approval rating
on twitter.)
This
week on NOT AT ODDS Jandy and I talk about our journey through the year of positivity and how that has shaped our consuming and
critiquing of the media.
Finally,
on March 25, 2009, just two
weeks after her Rockefeller Institute charter
critique, Eva Joseph announced her resignation.
They spend four
weeks drafting and
critiquing their essay with teacher and peer feedback, and then each student meets one -
on - one with a student from the University of Cambridge for further feedback.
But today, many Black History Month activities — discussions
on the bravery of Rosa Parks, research projects
on famous African Americans, or parties celebrating black culture — don't «get to the heart of the
critique that was inherent in Negro History
Week,» says Givens, a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Writing in Education
Week, school reform champion Robert Pondiscio recently offered a thoughtful and thought - provoking
critique of the open letter
on educational choice and accountability issued by scholars at the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the Heartland Institute, and the Center for Education Reform.
«I revised my manuscript based
on the thoughtful
critique I received at the conference, and I sent out my requested full manuscripts and queries a
week later.
Note from Jane: Last
week, I ran a comprehensive guest post
on how to find the right
critique group.
As Anne mentioned last
week, some
critique groups tend to focus more
on line - by - line issues than big picture things, especially because
critique groups / partners often see just a chapter or so at a time.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Last
week, Penguin subsidiary Book Country — a digital slush pile / peer
critique community with a focus
on genre fiction — announced that it was adding self - publishing services.
The Desk Drawer is an email group that shares submissions and
critique on writing exercises posted each
week.
As soon as my
critique group and my husband have read the book, I work furiously
on edits and revisions, then post the book within a
week.
A few
weeks ago
on a Facebook marketing group page, a bunch of authors were displaying their book covers for
critiques from the other members.
SKOWHEGAN IS A NINE -
WEEK SUMMER RESIDENCY that welcomes visual artists to an intensive program offering instruction and
critique on a 350 - acre farm in Maine.
On Start the
Week Mariella Frostrup talks to the academic Hamid Dabashi about his
critique of European intellectual heritage and identity.
In the past
week, sociologist Sarah Thornton and veteran art critic Dave Hickey have each articulated cutting
critiques of the excesses of the art market, and its pernicious influence
on the contemporary art scene.
Twenty - plus artists contribute more than sixty works in diverse media — ranging from quasi-architectural interventions (Los Carpinteros) to incisive social
critique (Daniela Ortiz and Alexander Apóstol) to poetic reflections
on history and form (Quisqueya Henríquez and Ishmael Randall
Weeks).
As part of Ojih Odutola's residency, she is participating in a host of campus events, some big and public — like her January 31st dialogue about Art & Equity with South African artist Mary Sibande, and a talk about her new book, The Treatment — and others more focused
on students of the visual arts — such an intensive two -
week drawing course, a studio visit for visual - arts majors, and a senior studio
critique.
PROGRAM Each of the four
weeks includes group
critiques, individual studio visits and a seminar: a focal point for group discussion of contemporary ideas, theory and issues based
on readings, artist talks, public events.
Canada's leading climate conspiracy theorists, the Friends of Science, are out this
week with a
critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little blush.
Writing in NLJ this
week, McDonagh
critiques the Commission's consultation, Making a will, due to close
on 10 November.
If he'd taken me up
on the free resume
critique weeks ago, we could have been nearly done with the process.