EAPP

• Focuses on the elements, structures, and principles that govern a certain text, artworks, movies, books, poems, etc.

  Formalism
• Focuses on the life and background of the writer or artist and connect it to the subject of your reviews or critics

  Biographical
• Focuses on the era and significant events that happened during the time the text it was produced.

  Historical Criticism
• Method used to explain the question of why an author wrote a literary piece.

  Marxist Criticism
• Proponent of marxism

  Karl Marx
• Focuses on how women are portrayed in a certain literary works in arts, in commercial, in movies, etc.

  Feminism
• Focuses on the meaning you create while reading, watching or looking at a certain object. It focuses on your personal connection with and understanding of the subject of your review.

  Reader-Response Ciriticism
• Emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine it's meaning, focusing on literary elements and how they work to create meaning.

  Formalism
• Emphasizes the importance of the authors life and background into account of your review or critic

  Biographical
• Points that every literary work is the product of its time and its world

  Historical criticism
• Emphasizes on how power, politics, and money play a role in literary texts and among literary societies and characters.

  Marxist Criticism
• Emphasizes on the roles, positions, and influences of women within literary texts

  Feminism
• Emphasizes that the meaning of a test is dependent upon the reader's response to it.

  Reader-response criticism
• Guidelines on writing an effective thesis statement:

  1. Avoid making overly-opinionated stands
  2. Avoid making announcements
  3. Avoid stating facts alone
• Claim or stand in your paper that you will develop in your paper. It is the controlling idea of your essay.

  Thesis Statement
• It is a summary that gives the essential features of a text.

  Outline
• It is used to get the main ideas of a text that is already written

  Reading Outline
• It is a skeletal version of your essay and is used as a guide to organize your ideas.

  Writing Outline
• It is a single words or brief phrases.

  Topic Outline
• It is in complete sentences

  Sentence Outline
• It represents paragraphs

  Roman numerals
• It is used to represent supporting details for the paragraphs

  Capital letters
• It is a written assignments that provides a personal opinion regarding given piece of work

  Reaction paper
• It presents a balanced review of a particular topic so that a person who is not an expert on the subject will understand

  Review paper
• It is a short paper, usually about one book or article

  Critique paper
• In writing a critique paper remember these:

  1. Describe
  2. Analyze
  3. Interpret
  4. Assess
• gives the reader a sense of the writers overall purpose and intent

  Describe
• examine how the structure and language of the text convey its meaning

  analyze
• state the significance or importance of each part of the text.

  Interpret
• make a judgement of the work's worth on value.

  assess
• rules of speech sounds

  phonology
• rules of word structure

  morphology
• rules of sentence structure

  syntax
• rules of relating to the meaning

  semantics
• rules that occur within social situations

  pragmatics