a review, a critique are specialized forms of writing in which a reviewer or reader evaluates
reaction paper
Critical Approaches in Writing a Critique:
Formalism
Feminism
Reader-Response
Marxist
- claims that literary works contain intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct work of art.
Formalism
posits that the key to understanding a text is through the text itself; the historical context, the author or any other external contexts are not necessary in interpreting the meaning.
Formalism
- focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of sociopolitical, psychological, and economic oppression
- reveals how aspects of our culture are patriarchal, i.e.,
Feminist Criticism or Feminism
- concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as an audience of a work.
Reader-Response Criticism
- claims that the reader’s role cannot be separated from the understanding of the work; a text does not have meaning until the reader reads it and interprets it
Reader-Response Criticism
- Readers are therefore not passive and distant, but are active consumers of the material presented to them.
Reader-Response Criticism
- concerned with differences between economic classes and implications of a capitalist system, such as the continuing conflicts between working class and the elite.
Marxist Criticism
- attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people’s experience is the socio-economic system
Marxist Criticism
Structure of Reaction Paper/ Review/ Critique
Introduction
Summary
Review/Critique
Conclusion
Introduction
‣ Title of the book/article or work
‣ Writer’s name
‣ Thesis statement
Summary
‣ Objective or Purpose
‣ Methods used (if applicable)
‣ Major findings, claims, ideas, or messages
Review/Critique
‣ Does the writer explicitly state his/her thesis statement.
‣ What are the assumptions
‣ What are the contributions of the work to the field where it belongs?
‣ What problems and issues are discussed or presented in the work?
‣ What kind of information are presented in the work?
Conclusion
‣ Overall impression of the work
‣ Scholarly or literary value of the reviewed article, book or work.
‣ Benefits for the intended audience
‣ Suggestion for future direction of research
aims to explain, clarify, or theorize a particular concept. Academic texts such as thesis, research papers, reports
concept paper
are also used to propose ideas for a project. Any project, program, or product started with a concept. It functions like a short summary of what the project is and why it is important and how it is carried out. Since it is a proposal, it is typically addressed to an approving body or office such as funders or sponsors. The - should be able to convince them to support the project
concept paper
is a logical technique by which the meaning of a term is revealed.
Definition
it clarifies the meaning of a word or a concept and it also limits the scope of that particular word or concept. Limiting the scope controls and avoids misinterpretations, argue notions, and/or broad ideas.
Definition
Techniques in Definition
Formal
synonym
origin or semantic history
Illustration
function
analysis
contrast
negation
follows a pattern or equation: \
term + genus + differentia
Formal
a class or group of something.
Genus
using a word or phrase that shares a meaning with the term being defined
By synonym
using the etymology of the word.
By origin or semantic history
