After Joanne’s speech, she asked for feedback. One student raised his hand and said that her topic was very relevant to this audience and that her message was very clear thanks to her good organization. However, he felt that her speech could have been more interesting had she used more visual aids to engage the audience. This is an example of:

This is a critique: the student evaluates the speech by pointing out both strengths—its relevance and clear organization—and an area for improvement, using more visual aids. Criticism usually focuses on faults, while criteria are standards for judging something and a critic is a person who evaluates it. The correct choice is “critique.”

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