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The critique essay asks you to look at a source with a critical eye and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. It will incorporate source material summary into its discussion but will also evaluate that source material. Specifically, you should
Read over Chapters in Postman’s Technopoly.
Develop a critique between 1,000 and 1,200 words of an idea that is presented by Postman in these chapters, using at least two scholarly sources to help provide support for your ideas (so, you must use at least three sources total: the chapter from Postman that you’ll cite AND at least two scholarly articles to support your critique). (Do not use book reviews to support your critique.)
Organize your critique in a meaningful way and include a clear thesis statement.
Use APA format to cite your sources. (For this assignment, an abstract is not needed, but a title page and references page should be included.)
Some useful tips and possible topics for this essay are given below. Feel free to peruse the topics given to help generate ideas for your essay.
Useful Tips:
You can find suggestions for strategies to organize the critique in several places:
Wilhoit provides a chart on pages in the text.
Additionally, make sure that you use essay structure (thesis, introduction, body, conclusion, transitions) and paragraph structure (topic sentences, illustrations, analysis, transitions).
Topic:
In chapter 1, Postman argues that technology gives and takes away. “[T]he benefits and deficits of a new technology are not distributed equally. There are, as it were, winners and losers” (p. 9). With regard to computers, he argues that computers have given some members of society benefits but have also resulted in deficits for other members of society.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of his analysis on these points? Some issues you might consider for this topic include whether Postman has defined his terms clearly, has considered the big picture with regard to computers, has “used and interpreted information fairly” (Behrens & Rosen, p. 68), and has argued his points logically. Even for people in society whose jobs have been eliminated by computers, have they overall been negatively affected by computers? Take, for example, factory workers. Have their lives been affected negatively by computer technology? Or positively? Or both? How about other workers in society? Critique Postman on this claim.
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