EAPP (writing a reaction paper, review)

Question 1

• Includes critical assessment, analyses or evaluation
• Use proofs and logical reasoning
• presents an analytical response
• usually range in length from 250 to 750 words

Answer 1

Reaction, review, and critique

Question 2

Introduction (around 5% of the paper)
includes the ff:

Answer 2

• Title of the work
• Writer’s name
• Thesis statement

Question 3

Summary (around 10% of the paper)
includes the ff:

Answer 3

• objective or purpose
• methods used
• major findings, claims, ideas or messages

Question 3

conclusion (around 10% of the paper)
includes the ff:

Answer 3

• overall impression of the work
• benefits for the intended audience
• suggestion for future direction of research

Question 3

review / critique (no particular order around 75% of the paper)
includes the ff:

Answer 3

• appropriateness of methodology
• theoretical soundness, coherence of ideas
• sufficiency and soundness of explanation
  other perspectives in explaining the concepts and ideas

Question 3

• claims that literary works contains intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct work of art.
• The key to understand the text is through the text itself.

Answer 3

formalism

Question 4

common aspects looked into in formalism:

Answer 4

• Author’s techniques in resolving contradictions within the work.
• Central passage that sums up the entirety of the work.
• Relationship of the form and the content.
• Use of imagery to develop symbols used in the work.
• Interconnectedness of various parts of the work.
• Unity in the work.

Question 4

Focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, psychological and economic oppression.

Answer 4

feminist criticism

Question 4

• It is concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as an audience of a work.
• A text does not have a meaning until the reader reads it and interprets it.

Answer 4

reader-response criticism

Question 5

aspect looked into in reader response criticism

Answer 5

• The impact of reader’s delivery of sounds and visuals on enhancing and changing the meaning
• Interaction between the reader and the text in creating meaning

Question 5

common aspects looked into in feminism

Answer 5

• How culture determines gender
• How gender equality (or the lack of it) is presented in the text
• How gender issues are presented in literary works
• How women are oppressed by patriarchy
• How patriarchal ideology is an overpowering presence

Question 6

Concerned with difference between economic classes and implications of a capitalist system, such as continuing conflicts between the working class and the elite.

Answer 6

marxist criticism

Question 6

aspect looked into in marxist criticism

Answer 6

• Social class as presented in the work
• Social class of the writer/creator
• Social class of the characters
• Conflicts and interactions between economic classes