EAPP

• Reaction paper, review, critique


  Specialized forms of writing in which a reviewer or reader evaluates any of the following: a scholarly work, a work of art, designs, graphic designs
• Formalism


  • Claims that literary works contain intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct work of art
  • Looks into: author's techniques, central passage, aesthetic quality, rhymes and rhythms, form and content, imagery, interconnectedness, paradox, ambiguity, irony, unity
• Feminist Criticism or Feminism


  • Focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression
  • Looks into: how culture determines gender, gender equality, gender issues, women's oppression by patriarchy, patriarchal ideology
• Reader-Response Criticism


  • Concerned with the reviewer's reaction as an audience of a work
  • Looks into: interaction between reader and text, impact of readers' delivery on meaning
• Marxist Criticism


  • Concerned with differences between economic classes and implications of a capitalist system
  • Looks into: social class of writer/creator, characters, conflicts and interactions between economic classes
• Other critical approaches


  • Post-modern criticism
  • Post-colonial criticism
  • Structuralism
  • Psychological criticism
  • Gender criticism
  • Ecocriticism
  • Biographical criticism
  • Historical criticism
  • Mythological criticism
• Reaction paper


  • Introduction (5%): title, writer, thesis
  • Summary (10%): objective, methods, major findings
  • Review/Critique (75%): thesis statement, assumptions, contributions, problems, information
  • Conclusion (10%): overall impression, value, benefits, future direction
• Reaction paper with no prescribed structure

  • Introduction: basic details, main assessment
  • Analysis/Interpretation: discussion, success/failure, unanswered questions, relation to other ideas
  • Conclusion/Evaluation: reinforcement of assessment, comparison, recommendation
• Guidelines for writing reaction paper, review, or critique

  
  

  ‣ Read to the work to be reviewed carefully.

  ‣ Relate the content of the work to what you already know about the topic.

  ‣ Focus on discussing how the book treats the topic

  ‣ Report the type of analysis or mode of presentation.

  ‣ Examine whether the findings are adequately supported.

  ‣ Suggest points for improvement of the reasoning.

  ‣ Point out other interpretations that the writer missed out
• Concept paper


  A summary document of a project proposal that tells what the project is, reasons for conducting it, and how it will be carried out
• Concept paper for a project

  • Cover page.
  • Introduction.
  • Rationale/Background.
  • Project Description.
  • Project Needs and Cost
• Concept paper for academic research

  • Title page
  • Background of the Study
  • Preliminary Literature Review
  • Statement of the Problem/Objectives.
  • Methodology.
  • Timeline.
  • Reference
• Three ways to elucidate a concept

  1. Definition (informal, formal, extended)

  2. Explication (detailed interpretation of text)

  3. Clarification (from general to specific examples)
• Position paper


  A kind of academic writing in which the writer researches a controversial issue and writes a paper explaining his/her stand or viewpoint on it
• Position paper

  • Describes a position on an issue and the rationale for that position
  • Purpose is to generate support on an issue
  • Based on facts that provide a solid foundation for an argument
• Steps in writing a position paper

  1. Choose a topic

  2. Conduct research

  3. Create outline

  4. Challenge your own topic

  5. Collect supporting evidence
• General guidelines for writing a position paper


  • Use evidence to support your position, such as statistical evidence or dates and events
  • Validate your position with authoritative references or primary source quotations
  • Examine the strengths and weaknesses of your position
  • Evaluate possible solutions and suggest courses of action
• General outline for a position paper

  • Introduction
  • Development (Body)
  • Conclusion
• Introduction


  • Identification of the issue
  • Statement of the position
• Development (Body)


  • Background information
  • Supporting evidence or facts
  • Discussion of both sides of the issue
• Conclusion


  • Summary of main concepts and ideas
  • Suggested courses of action
  • Possible solution
• TIPS IN WRITING

  
  

  -Don't be afraid to be argumentative

  -look at all sides of the issue and base your opinion on a thorough examination of all the relevant evidence

  -convince the reader that you have critically read the text and analyzed the issue

  -express your thoughts clearly and concisely

  -use vivid verbs and concrete nouns
• Guidelines for writing reaction paper, review, or critique(for artworks and other me)

  ‣ Use speculative verbs (evoke, create, appear, & suggest).

  ‣ Make sure to describe it to the reader (do not spoil key events).

  ‣ Describe the material in simple terms (artworks).
• USES OF CONCEPT PAPER

  • serves a foundation of the full proposal
  • determines whether the proposal is feasible or not
  • piques the interest of the potential funding agencies
  • obtains informal feedback of the ideas prior to preparing the full proposal
  • helps in addressing social issues which plague our society