RESPONSE PAPER

1 Person: 1500 words (2 articles)

2 People: 3000 words (3 articles)

3 People: 4500 words (3 articles)

Questions for discussion: Students are required to write a reaction/response paper of these
articles based on the following questions:

(i) What are the main points of the articles?  brief summary!

(ii) What are the lessons learned?  your argumentation (agree/disagree, what is your
view and what is your solution?)

(iii) How does your analysis relate to your own country of origin or another country that
you are familiar with?  comparative studies

Make sure your ideas is STREAMLINE, don’t separate your ideas, but make it smooth.
Don’t make a treatise. Author A said: bla bla bla… author B said: bla bla bla. No! and don’t
jump from one idea to another idea. Make sure it has conjunction – can be sentences or even
a paragraph.

First paper: state a proper citation, a presence of title would be perfect

Example:

REVIEW ESSAY

The Bay of Bengal: Beyond the nation-state

Sunil Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and Fortunes of
Migrants, Harvard University Press, USA, 2013, ix + 353 pp

Willem van Schendel. The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in
South Asia, 2004, Anthem Press London. x + 419 pp

Chua Beng Huat. Inter-Asia Referencing Southeast Asia: Absence,

Resonance, and Provocation. In Methodology and Research Practice in
Southeast Asian Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 368 pp

Dadang Ilham Kurniawan Mujiono

First paragraph: state your argumentation and the structure of your paper

The following paragraph till end is brief summary  your ideas/argumentation  solution?
 conclusion  bibliography
In writing response paper you can either jump into stating your argument directly over the
argumentation that showed by the selecting authors or by examining what is their approach
(theory/concept) and therefore, stating your argument.