REACTION PAPER

REACTION PAPER

 It is a written discourse which expresses the writer’s reaction to a

certain piece of writing or a response to an event, incident, program,
project, etc.

 Even if it is primarily subjective because it manifests the writer’s

ideas and emotions regarding a certain thing, it is still objective
because it is based on facts.
FACTS, OPINIONS, and Claims

FACT OPINION

 Truth, reality, or a thing that  Person’s view, appraisal, or

exists or existed judgment about, or attitude
toward a certain thing
 CLAIMS

CLAIMS OR ASSERTIONS ABOUT MEANINGFUL COUNTERCLAIMS IN

THE CONTENT AND PROPERTIES OF RESPONSE TO CLAIMS MADE IN A
A TEXT READ TEXT
 Length and complexity of the text
 Reader’s claims – fact, policy, and
 Its structure and organization, value
readership, authorship
 The author’s writing style, language,
diction, and point of view
 SOURCES TO SUPPORT CLAIMS

PRIMARY SOURCES:
First-hand information – includes persons, organizations, plants, animals,
artifacts, documents
SECONDARY SOURCES:
Second-hand information – books, periodicals (newspapers and
magazines), internet or online materials, and other sources not included in
primary sources
 LANGUAGE USE

 Language use – “register”

 Register – a term many modern linguists use to describe what is also known as
“style”
 Style – the variations in language which reflect such factors of use as whether
the language used is spoken or written, formal or informal, everyday or
belonging to a particular occupation

 *REGISTER VARIETIES – social and occupational origins

THREE DIMENSIONS

FIELD – associated with occupational varieties

TENOR – associated with the participants and their
relationship in the communication situation
MODE – associated with the medium or channel of
communication
PRESENTING VIEWS

A general view must be arrived at after weighing the two sets of

views
If there is a preponderance of the positive views, then the overall
impression is favorable.
If there is a preponderance of the negative views, then the overall
impression is unfavorable.