The Review

SS434 Introduction to History.

Instructions ( 800 words – 1,000 words only.
 You are to review an article: Titled – Asian Workers in the Pacific
by Margaret Willson, Clive Moore and Doug Munro.
 In your review highlight the followings:
 Introduce the chapter & its focus.
 Establish key ideas & how they were developed.
 Highlight the event in terms of scholarship & state of knowledge.
 Your reaction to the content.
For example:-
 This chapter highlights Asian labourers in the Pacific in particular,
Chinese hence Indians in brief. The discuss was on the premises
that ( Highlight key ideas & trace the line of thinking by the
authors.
 Labour trade and more so Asian Workers in the Pacific had become
significant historical event which brought academic attention to
historians (Give justifications.
Cont..
 Hence my response or commenting on the article…..
 Be precise.
 Use your own word.
 Do not replicate the very words used.
 Express your sentences clearly. (Do not too wordy)
 Remain to the word count.
Hence review is not:-
 a summary.
 argument.
 essay.
 commentary
 synthesis
 Review is “lukluk lo hem moa”.
TAGIO TUMAS.