Critique 2

          The article "It is still beauty before Brains", penned down by Chok Suat Ling expresses how women are being judged based on their appearance and not on what they have to offer the community. I personally feel that the author, as a woman, is being biased towards the opposed sex as she never revealed how men are judged on the first impression as well.

          Next, it prompts the readers to question on where she obtained the evidences in her essay from. For example, she stated about a survey done by a woman's magazine. The statement turns out to be vague as she did not indicate which woman's magazine she was referring to. The proofs were not declared so the values could have been inflated by the author in order to make the article substantial.

          Furthermore, the details given are not applicable to the article. The title "It is still Beauty before Brains" gives me the idea that the author composed on how women are judged on their appearance instead of their wisdom. At first, she talked about how women are dominating the universities these days, but as we read through the article, she started to mention about newsreaders, sports women and stewardesses. The particulars do not represent her main title, thus, the latter paragraphs do not seem to correlate with the former.

          However, her choice of words is expansive. She used scientific terms such as corpus callosum and electrophoresis. Although the words could have been easily misinterpreted by some of the readers, it shows how wide the author's vocabulary is. What’s good is that the author did not try too hard in boasting her vast vocabulary. Simple words, picked by the author made the article an easy read.

          In the nut shell, the author is clever as she used simple words that could be understood by the majority of the readers. However, she needs to pronounce the correctness of her statements, especially those that she extracted out of a magazine's survey or research studies so that the ambiguity is abridged. Last but not least, the article would have been better if the author had elaborated the given specifics and restructured her sentences in order to make the points correlative to each other.