CRITIQUE OR REACTION PAPER AND CRITICAL APPROACHES IN WRITING A CRITIQUE

is a form of paper writing in which the writer expresses his ideas and opinions about what has been read or seen.

When you write reaction papers, you are:
• expected to write about your (1)______ in relation to an event or reading material.
• You write about not just the usual details but also your (2)______ to it;
• you can discuss whether the experience had a (3)____and______ impact on you.

T or F. A reaction paper will be complete without your assessment of your experience
True False

In a reaction paper, it is in the _______ where you may include statements praising the organizers or suggesting points for improvement.

questions to ask when you write a reaction paper:
a. What is the book, event, or phenomenon (1)______?
b. Did it meet its (2)________?
c. How do I feel about it? Did it (3)_______ me in a negative or positive way?
d. What (4)______ did I get from it?
e. Did I tactfully justify my (5)_______ toward the book, event, place, thing, etc.?

describes, analyses and evaluates a work. A _______ may give you the main information about a piece of work.

T or F. The reviewer will also comment on the quality of the work, overall impression, and his personal opinions. But he will not go into a deep, technical analysis.
True False

Expressing your opinion about an event, book, restaurant, art, exhibit, performance, movie, or latest trends is called a________

T or F. You cannot talk about tourist destinations, government policies, and social phenomena.
True False

This type of writing takes the form of blurbs, blogs, and essays. It is not just a summary but a commentary involving the writer’s opinion

T or F. A reaction Paper does not requires persuasion and critical evaluation
True False

You also aim to argue when writing a review since you want your readers to make informed decisions based on what you have written.

T or F. It is not important to be concise in your review
True False

T or F. In a review paper, you are also expected to be unbiased in your evaluation. You can do this by providing your honest appraisal of it, combining your opinion with accurate facts.
True False

T or F. reviews does not involve arguments
True False

questions to ask when you write a review:
a. Does my review reflect my (1)______ of the book, event, or phenomenon that I am evaluating?
b. Did I (2)______ important aspects of the book, event, or phenomenon?
c. Have I included enough (3)____and______ to help readers evaluate the merits of the book, event, place or phenomenon that I am evaluating?
d. Have I been (4)______ in my evaluation?
e. Did I make a clear (5)________? Did I support my opinion with accurate, verifiable facts?
f. Have I given my readers enough (6)_______ to make an informed judgment based on my evaluation?

is a systematic, yet personal response and evaluation of what you read. It briefly summarizes and critically evaluates a work or a concept.

A critique paper is also called a ___________ , production, or performance—either one's own (a self-critique) or someone else's.

Of all the types of academic writing in this lesson, ________ are considered the most academic

It is a form of intellectual discourse involving one’s evaluation of an event, book, place, or phenomenon, a________ is the more expanded and combined version of a reaction paper and review paper.

This type of writing allows writers to articulate their opinion about issues familiar and relevant to them.

Examples of critiques include a critique of an (1)______, (2)_______, and (3)______ evaluating a project.

questions to ask when you write a critique:
a. What is the (1)______ of the work/subject?
b. Who wrote it, why, and what are his/her (2)________?
c. What is the (3)_______ of the work/subject?
d. What are its (4)_________? How well are they achieved?
e. What is the (5)____or______ for the work/subject?
f. Does the design or method help the work/subject (6)______ its objectives?
g. What is the particular (7)______ or lack of _______?
h. What (8)______ underlie the work/subject? Are they offensive? Obvious?
i. How do the assumptions and biases (9)_______ the validity of the work/subject?

(1) _______,________ and _________ allow writers to express their views, enabling others to share their point or a contrary viewpoint.

Although, they rely on the writer’s opinion, as with all types of academic writing, these types of papers require evidence in the form of facts, statistics, examples, testimony, reviews of fellow writers, pictures, and other pieces of evidence to make the writer’s claim more valid.

Reaction Paper
- to (1)_____ ideas and opinions about what has been read or seen.
- to write your (2)______ in relation to the event or reading material
- not just the (3)_______ but also your reaction to it.
- discuss how it impacts you (4)______, as a reader or viewer.
- it is (5)________ without the ASSESSMENT
- assessment includes: praising the authors or organizers and suggesting points for (6)_______.

Review Paper
- to (1)___,_____and_____ a certain work.
- to give (2)______ about a piece of work.
- to give (3)_______ about the quality of the work, overall impression, and expressing personal opinions.
- no (4)_______ involved.
- to write in a form of ___and_____.
- requires (6)_____and_____.
- aims to have an (7)_______ so that your reader will make informed decisions.
- important to be (8)______.
- not be (9)______ on the evaluation.
- combine (10)_______ with accurate facts.
- to (11)____or______.
- explain reasons for (12)______ your readers to read it.

Critique Paper
- (1)______ and evaluation of what you read.
- (2)__________ and critically evaluates a work.
- are considered the (3)______
- it is a form of intellectual discourse involving an (4)_______.
- it is a more expanded and combined version of a (5)______and______.
- to articulate (6)_______ about issues familiar and relevant to it.

Why Do We Write Critique, Review and Reaction Papers?
It helps us develop:

(1)______of the work’s subject area or related works;
understanding of the work’s (2)______, (3)______ audience, development of (4)_____, structure of (5)______ or (6)_______ style; and
recognition of the (7)_______ of the work.

Some Critical Approaches in Writing Critique, Review and Reaction Papers

focuses on the structural purposes of a particular text

it regards text as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms”.

It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence but mainly looking at the elements of imagery, figurative languages, text structures, text styles and tone.

A primary goal for _________ is to determine how such elements work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.

It ignores the author, reader and social context:
✓ The name of the author is not important
✓ The time in which the author lived is not important
✓ The political belief of the author is not important
✓ The actual reader is not important
It focuses on the text:
✓ It uses close reading
✓ Intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct work of art
✓ The key understanding a text is through a text itself

Common aspects looked into in ________:
✓ Author’s techniques in resolving contradictions within the work
✓ Central passage that sums up the work
✓ Relationship of the form and the content
✓ Unity in the work

the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes

recognizes that since literature both reflects culture and shapes it, literary studies can either perpetuate the oppression of women or help to eliminate it.

Presents women as subjects of sociopolitical, psychological and economic oppression. It is not just women but the tension between male and female within a text.

Common aspects looked into in________:
✓How culture determines gender
✓How gender equality is presented in the text
✓How gender issues are presented in literary works
✓How women are socially, politically, psychologically and economically oppressed by patriarchy.

this approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature/text” 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.

According ton________, literary texts do not “contain” a meaning; meanings derive only from the act of individual readings. Hence, two different readers may derive completely different interpretations of the same literary text; likewise, a reader who rereads a work years later may find the work shockingly different.

__________, then, emphasizes how “religious, cultural, and social values affect readings; it also overlaps with gender criticism in exploring how men and women read the same text with different assumptions.”

Though this approach rejects the notion that a single “correct” reading exists for a literary work, it does not consider all readings permissible “Each text creates limits to its possible interpretations.”

Common aspects looked into in ________:
✓ Interaction between the reader and the text in creating meaning.
✓ The impact of reader’s delivery of sounds and visuals on enhancing and changing meaning.

What is a Balanced or Objective Review or Criticism?
1. It is a system of interpreting, judging, assessing a person, thing, or any work of art (1)______ by feelings or opinions in considering and presenting facts.
2. It is a (2)________ of considering the truthfulness of a piece of work.
3. You have to keep in mind that your reaction, review or critique essay should be based on (3)______ not your opinion.
4. When writing an objective essay, you should state (4)______ unemotionally.
5. (5) _______ writing is writing that you can verify through evidence and facts.
6. If you are writing objectively, you must remain as (6)_______ as possible through the use of facts, statistics and research.

This type of writing is best used when you as a writer need to present unbiased information to an audience and then let them determine their own opinion.

Formalism
- focuses on the (1)_______ of a written work.
- it is a study of a text that mainly considers the (2)______: imagery, figurative languages, text structures, text styles, tone.
- to determine how these elements work together within the content of the written work that would have an (3)______ to readers.
- it (4)_______ the author, reader, and social context
- it (5)_____ on the text

Feminism
- it has advocacy to (1)______ on the basis of equality among sexes.
- (2)________ are the subjects. But it is not just always women there also present the tension between male and female in the text.

Reader- Response Criticism
- claims that literature or text has not exist to give just a mere artifacts about something. But it exists because there is a transaction between the (1)_______and_______
- to describe what is happening in the (2)_______ as they interpret what is on the text.
- according to this, literary texts does not have (3)_______. Since meaning will only exists from individual perspectives as they read.
- it emphasizes how religious, cultural, and social values (4)_______ the readings.
- it claims to have gender criticism given that a male and a female can read the same text but will have a (5)_______
- there is interaction between the reader and the text in (6)_______ a meaning.
- the reader's delivery of (7)____and_____ may have an impact in enhancing and changing the meaning of the text.