Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Response Text
Response Text
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SOCIAL PURPOSES
A response is a text that gives a person’s
response or reaction to another text (a book,
film, play, poem, and so on) by providing a
description of the work and a judgement.
SCHEMATIC STRUCTURES
INTRODUCTION: a paragraph (more) that
introduces the text being judged. This should
contain information on the title of the text, the
name of the person who constructed it (the
author/artist), when it was constructed and a
brief summary of the work.
DESCRIPTION: a paragraph (more) that gives
details about the orientation, complication,
sequence of events and resolution – this step may
include other features of the text.
JUDGEMENT: a paragraph (more) that includes
opinions and some recommendations.
LANGUAGE FEATURES
Words that express judgements and the
writer’s attitudes (MODALITY)
The use of the present tense
Descriptive words
EXAMPLES
Review of Toy story
Review of Bridge to Terabithia
Review of Jagged Little Pill