RAWS

• Considerations in Writing a Book Review or an Article Critique


  • Unique features of the text
  • Purpose and Audience
  • Pattern of Development
• Unique features of a Book Review/Article Critique


  • Write a summary of its content
  • Include pertinent details such as the title and author of the book or article
  • State your general evaluation of the book or article as the main idea of your review or critique
• Purpose of a book review or an article critique

  To persuade the readers of a particular genre or researchers in a specific field whether read the book or article or not. To a certain extent, the review or critique tells how useful and credible a book or an article is.
• Warrant


  Inferences or assumptions that connect the support to the claim.
• Revision Checklist


  • Does the thesis statement introduce the purpose of the book review or article critique
  • Are the supporting points arranged logically
  • Does each topic sentence in the body support the thesis statement
  • Are appropriate transition words or phrases used in the text
  • Is the arrangement of the specific details logical
• Visualize

  Picture in your mind the images the author creates with his/her words.
• Evaluate

  Forming opinions about what you have read, both while you're reading and after.
• Fallacies


  defects in an argument
• Missing the Point


  The premise supports a conclusion other than the one it is meant to support.
• Post Hoc (False Cause)


  This fallacy assumes that because x precedes y, therefore x caused y.
• Slippery Slope


  Falsely assuming that one thing will inevitably lead to another and another, and another, until we have reached some unavoidable dire consequence!
• Weak Analogy


  Many arguments rely on an analogy between two or more objects, ideas, or situations. If the two things that are being compared aren't alike in the relevant respects
• Good readers also make educated guesses about what may happen later in the story

  Predict
• highlighting areas of improvement and offering suggestions for enhancement


  Providing Feedback
• is assessing the degree to which the writer's idea are valid


  Evaluating text
• texts that act as an electronic networks of related information, materials and pages in gadgets and electronic devices


  Hypertext
• text which contains links to other text

  Hypertext 

• when readers often connect a text with another text, cultural practice, or a personal experience, without there being any tangible anchor point within the original text.


  Accidental Intertextuality
• Has a less vital impact on the significance of the hypertext.


  Optional Intertextuality
• involves a comparison or association between two or more texts


  Obligatory Intertextuality
• The relationship between texts especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other.


  Intertextuality
• argue that persons, things, and circumstances could produce a result.

  Claim of Cause and Effect
• specific and measurable actions that need to be done in order to address issues or concerns presented in the argument or proposition.


  Claim of Policy
• 
are judgments based on moral standards and norms.


  Claim of Value
• Are inferences made based on data, documents, scientific observation results, and research.

  Claim of Fact
• The topic of an argument.

  Claim

• 
Attacking the opponent instead of the opponent's argument.


  Ad Hominem
• 
The arguer tries to convince the audience to do or believe something because everyone else(supposedly) does.


  Ad populum (Bandwagon Fallacy)
• This fallacy states that because there is no conclusive evidence, we should therefore accept the arguer's conclusions on the subject.


  Appeal to Ignorance
• This fallacy is quite common around the due date or deadline.


  Appeal to Pity
• Attempting to convince an individual to accept a conclusion by making them feel sorry for someone.

  Appeal to Pity

• When an arguer tries to get people to agree with him/her by appealing to a supposed authority who isn't much of an expert. 


  Appeal to Authority
• the info from the text is considered as solid


  objective evidence
• is the textual evidence that is immeasurable or unspecific


  subjective evidence
• evidence in the form of text is called


  textual evidence
• is a highly persuasive and informative document that aims to address a particular problem or issue

  Project Proposal
• A project proposal usually ranges from

  1,000 to 2,500 words
• It is used within the organization. It responds with specific request within the org. The problem has identified and the decision has been made


  solicited internal
• It is used when the target reader is within the org but has not yet identified that a problem exists within the org; hence, no decision has been made to solve the problem


  Unsolicited Internal
• used when the target reader is not within the org. It responds to a specific request from someone who is not within the company. The problem has been identified and the decision to solve it has been made.


  Solicited External