REACTION

PAPER
What are Reaction Papers, Review and
Critiques?
they are specialized form of writing in which a reviewer or
reader evaluates any of yhe following:
• a scholarly work (e.g. academic books and articles)
• a work of art (e.g., performance art. play, dance, film etc.)
• designs
• graphic designs
Critical Approches in Writing a Critique
1. FORMALISM - it posits that the key to understanding
understanding the text is through the text itself.
• central idea/ subject of the work
• genre
• use of imagery
• feeling evoked in the work
Critical Approches in Writing a Critique
2. FEMINIST CRITICISM / FEMINISM
focuses on how the literature presents a woman as subjects
of socio - political, psychological and economic oppression.
* women's role
* gender equality
* patriarchal culture
Critical Approches in Writing a Critique
3. READER - RESPONSE CRITICISM
• concerned with reviewer's reaction as an audienceof work
• claims that the work does not have meaning until reader reads it
and interprets it.
* reader's feeling towards the text
*relates to reader's real experience
Critical Approches in Writing a Critique
4. MARXIST CRITICISM
• concerned with differences betwen economic classes and
implications of a capitalist system.
*social class is presented in the work
*social of the writer/creator
* social class of the characters
* conflicts and interpretations between economic class
Others:
• Postmodern criticism
• Post - colonial criticism
• Structuralism
• Psychological Criticism
• Gender Criticism
• Ecocritism
• Biographical Criticism
• Historical Criticism
• Mythological Criticism
• Deconstructionist Critism
Structure of a Reaction Paper
A. INTRODUCTION (5%)
• title of the work
• writer's name
• thesis statement

B. SUMMARY/ DESCRIPTION (10%)

• gist of the plot
• simple description of the work
Structure of a Reaction Paper
C. REVIEW/ANALYSIS/INTERPRETATION (75%)
. employ the critical approaches
. point of view about the work

D. CONCLUSION (10%)
• overall impression of the work
• suggestion for further direction (Academic reaserch or Articles)
• recommendation of the material (If you like it)