ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL WHAT IS A REACTION PAPER?

PURPOSES  “The Reaction Paper: A Measured Response to

the World” by Marikit Tara Alto Uychoco.
THE WRITING PROCESS REACTION PAPER – significance is societal.
Thesis statement – the claim or stand that you will – Written for the enlightenment for one’s fellow
develop in your paper. human beings.
– A strong thesis statement usually contains an – More formal, more descriptive, and often uses
element of uncertainty, risk, or challenge the rhetorical devices of description and
(Ramage, Bean, and Johnson 2006: 34). narration in order to prove a point.
DIARY ENTRY – Personal in their significance.
Organizing Your Paper – Written for the enlightenment of the self.
 Organizing your ideas – finding the connection – Less formal, less descriptive, and does not
of one point to another and stablishing a link endeavor to persuade or to make another
from on idea to another. person understand.
 Outlining - an effective way of ensuing the
logical flop of your ideas.  Both have their significance, however, only the
 Introduction – for academic essay provides a reaction paper is considered significantly
background of your topic, poses a question valuable for the academe.
regarding a topic. 
 Body – this is where the bulk of the essay is READING AND WRITING A REVIEW
found.  “O. Henry” by O. W. Firkins.
 Conclusion – should bring together the points in – The middle class views him as the
your paper and emphasize your final point. impersonation of vigor and brilliancy.
 “Comments on the Moro Massacre” by Samuel
 “How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words” Clemens.
by Paul Roberts. – A tribe of Moros, dark-skinned savages, had
 Why College Should Be Abolished fortified themselves in the bowl of an extinct
crater not many miles from Jolo.
The following should be Consider in Writing an
Essay:
1. Avoid obvious content
2. Take the less usual side
3. out of abstraction
4. Get rid of obvious padding
5. Beware of pat expressions
6. Call a fool a fool
7. Colorful words
8. Colored words
9. Colorless words

THE POST-WRITING PROCESS

 According to Murray, “writing is revising”
 Columnist Ellen Goodman (quoted in Nadell,
Langan, and Comodromos 2005:60) seems to
echo that statement when she said that “what
makes her happy is rewriting”.

Two Process in Post-writing

 Revising
 Editing

Checklist for Revising

 Subject
 Focus
 Authority
 Context
 Voice
 Reader
 Structure
 Documentation
 Quantity