review: a writing genre that features a reviewer’s informed opinion avbout a subject

overview

• introduction
• description
• discssion
• conclusion

orgnnizing and drafting review

• the intro
• description or summary of subject
• discussion of strengths and shortcomings
• conclusion

summary in review

informed opinion about subject

summary is keeping essence

review is adding opinion

writing to someone who hasn’t seen it

assume they know next to nothing about the topic/subject

assume they are mature well educated from upper social class

harpers, atlantic monthly (high) times magazine (lower)

formal review

pitch it to the appropriate audience

back it up with evidence from the text

INTRODUCTION

• identify your topic
• basic premise of story
• background information
• establish opinion - overall assessment
• thesis statement
• 1 paragraph

going in/prewriting

• understand what the genre is
• generate a list of expectations
• be open minded
• has to do the main things properly
• need to know what it’s made up of

academic expectations

• formality
• knowledge on your topic
• originality
• advances knowledge and addresses an important topic
• shows existing knowledge in the field and compared to similar texts on similar topics
• detailed in-depth analysis and sufficient research and evidence
• make a sound argument and takes a reasoned critical stance
• terminology/jargon specific to the field
• organized

description/summary of subject

• describe/summarize the essence of the film
• length depends on depth of movie
• 1-2 paragraphs to give a sense of the movie
• more summarizing will be involved in next step

strengths/shortcomings

• main body of the review
• largest part
• topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph
• [statement at topic] [support of claim with evidence - reference specific scenes]
• don’t go to the film world
• go into specifics

conclusion

• remind reader of thesis
• conclude