Reaction Paper, Review, and Critique PDF

Reaction Paper, Review, and Critique English for Academic and Professional Purposes  Learning Objectives At the end of the lesson, the students is expected to: Differentiate the different approaches in literary criticism; Write objective assessments;...

Reaction Paper, Review, and Critique English for Academic and Professional Purposes  Learning Objectives At the end of the lesson, the students is expected to: Differentiate the different approaches in literary criticism; Write objective assessments; Use appropriate critical approaches in writing a critique such as formalism, feminism, etc; and Express ideas in appropriate language and manner.  Critique Paper Is the most academic and most elevated evaluation among the three. Is made by experts in the field. Is usually made to provide direction for future improvements of the subject.  Reaction Paper Paper Presents your reasonable response to anything seen, heard, read, or experienced. Can be made by anyone Focused on personal appreciation of the subject.  Review Paper Is an objective judgement of something. Focused on highlighting the good and bad points. Gives audience an informed judgement about the subject.  Functions of a reaction paper,review,and critique English for Academic and Professional Purposes What is the purpose of a reaction,review, and critique paper? Evaluate something using relevant criteria. Provide reason and evidence. Helps you become a critical thinker. The characteristics of an Effective Reaction, Review, or Critique English for Academic and Professional Purposes Relevant information and description of the subject Know your subject well. Provide enough background information on the subject.  Clearly defined and appropriate criteria for evaluation Clear criteria for basis of good judgement Helps you evaluate whether the subject is strong, needs improvement, or manifests certain qualities to some extent. Criteria changes depends on what you are reviewing, your purpose, and your  A fair, balanced, well supported assessment Effective reviews make clear assessments or claim that the subject is good or bad, or has a particular quality. These evaluations come from a critical judgement. Provide clear reasons and sufficient evidences to support claim. The reaction paper: Participating in an event  Introduction Describe what the event is about. Use WH-Questions Thesis statement When starting your reaction paper, do the following: STEP 1: Introduce the event – Your first sentence of the reaction paper should capture the event in the text. Give background information about the event, including the name, time and place of the event.  Body Recount what you knew before the event. Narrate what you experienced at the event. Describe your reactions to the event  Conclusion Summarize what you learned from the event.  Critical Approaches in Literary Criticism Approaches to Literary Criticism will detail the various approaches to literary criticism that we will utilize to study a literary piece.  Formalist Criticism This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.” All the elements necessary for understanding the work are contained within the work itself. Of particular interest to the formalist critic are the elements of form—style, structure, tone, imagery, etc.— that are found within the text. A primary goal for formalist critics is to determine how such elements work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers  Feminist Criticism Feminist criticism attempts to correct this imbalance by analyzing and combating such attitudes—by questioning, for example, why none of the characters in Shakespeare's Play Othello ever challenge the right of a husband to murder a wife accused of adultery. Other goals of feminist critics include “analyzing how sexual identity influences the reader of a text” and “examining how the images of men and women in imaginative literature reflect or reject the social forces that have historically kept the sexes from achieving total equality.”  Historical Criticism - This approach “seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it—a context that necessarily includes the artist’s biography and milieu.” A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers.  Reader-response Criticism This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader. It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.  Media Criticism It is the act of closely examining and judging the media. When we examine the media and various media stories, we often find instances of media bias. Media bias is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner. Media bias occurs when the media seems to push a specific viewpoint, rather than reporting the news objectively. Keep in mind that media bias also occurs when the media seems to ignore an important aspect of the story. This is the case in the news story about the puppies.  Marxist Criticism It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature. Marxist criticism often argues that all art is political, either challenging or endorsing (by silence) the status quo, it is frequently evaluative and judgmental, a tendency that “can lead to reductive judgment, as when Soviet critics rated Jack London better than William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, and Henry James, because he illustrated the principles of class struggle more clearly.” Marxist criticism “can illuminate political and economic dimensions of literature other approaches overlook.”