WRITING A

REACTION /
REVIEW /
CRITIQUE PAPER

ENGAPP3
What are Reaction Papers, Reviews, and Critiques?

These papers are specialized forms of written text wherein a

reader or reviewer evaluates any of the following:
● Designs (furniture, structural designs, fashion design)
● Work of art (dance, sport, play, film, exhibits)
● Graphic designs (digital media, posters, commercials)
● Scholarly works (academic journals, articles, books)
• may have a minimum of 250 words to a maximum of
750 words.

entails analysis, evaluations, and assessments of works.

Critical thinking skills and recognizing arguments

a writer must not rely on his/her own opinions because

it needs valid and information based from reliable
resources.
Critical Approaches in Writing
a Critique
There are varied ways on how you can write your own
critique. You can consider technical aspects such as its
structure and content, approach to gender,
reaction/response as an audience, or through its social
aspects.
 Formalism/Formalist Criticism

Claims that to understand a text, one should

examine it using its elements or its structure.
 Formalism/Formalist Criticism
Here are the common aspects that should be investigated
formalism:
✓ Techniques of author
✓ Central meaning of a passage
✓ Effects of rhymes and rhythms to the work
✓ Interconnectedness of various parts of the work
✓ Paradox, irony, and ambiguity in the work
✓ Unity of the work
Formalism/Formalist Criticism
 Feminism/Feminist Criticism

Focuses on women and how she is presented in a

literature as subjects of economic, socio-political, and
psychological oppression.
 Feminism/Feminist Criticism

● How culture determines gender

● How gender equality (lack of it) is presented in a text
● How gender issues are presented in a text
● How patriarchal system overpowers matriarchal
power in the society.
Feminism/Feminist Criticism
  Reader-response Criticism

Concerned with the reviewer’s reaction to a piece

of work. This claims that to have a meaningful text, a
reader should be present with it.
  Reader-response Criticism

● Interaction of the reader and the text.

● Impact of reader’s delivery of sounds and visuals on
enhancing and changing its meaning.
Reader-response Criticism
  Marxist Criticism/Marxism

Focuses on economic classes, social concerns, and

conflicts between the working class and elite.
  Marxist Criticism/Marxism

● Economic social class

● Social class of the author
● Social class of the characters
● Conflicts and interactions of the different social
classes
 Marxist Criticism/Marxism