Introduction of Review Text

Hi world!

This is my first blog (finally I have a blog, :D ). In this blog, I’ll discuss all about the review text. Do you know what review text is? Btw, do you ever give a comment about movie you watched or book you read? Yeah, that is review.

A review is a critical evaluation of a text, event, object, or phenomenon. If you want to write a review text, you should consider the generic structure and lexicogrammatical features of that text. Check these out!

Social purpose: to critique an art work or event for a public audience. Such work of art include movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts and ballets.

Generic structure:

• Orientation: places the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or through analogue with a non-art object or event.

• Interpretative recount: summarises the plot and/or provides an account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being; is optional, but if present, often recursive

• Evaluation: provides an evaluation of the work and/or its performance or production; is usually recursive

•  Evaluative summation: provides a kind of punchline which sums up the reviewer’s opinion of the art event as a whole; is optional

Lexicogrammatical features:

• Focus on particular participants

•  Direct expression of opinions through use of attitudinal ephitets in nominal groups, qualitative attributes and affective mental processes

• Use of elaborating and extending clause and group complexes to package the information

• Use of metaphorical language, e.g. the wit was there, dexterously ping-ponged, to and fro.

Ok guys, for make it clear, I’ll give you example of the text!

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

By J.K. Rowling

Reviewed by Emily Kremer

Orientation

The book takes place in modern times, in England. The main character is Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a wizard. He goes to a school for witches and wizards, called Hogwarts.

Interpretative recount

It is Harry’s second year at Hogwarts and he and his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are having a great time learning magic. There is a new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart who all the witches are crazy about! Professor Lockhart keeps nagging Harry, because the professor thinks that Harry tries to get attention to be famous! While all the witches at school love the new professor, all of the wizards think he is a big joke!

After a month of school at Hogwarts, strange attacks begin to happen. First, the caretaker’s cat, Mrs. Norris, has been found, not dead, but petrified! Not only was Filch’s cat attacked, but some of the Muggle-born students at Hogwarts have been found petrified, also. Naturally, all of the students are frightened at this, but they become even more scared when the next victim to be found petrified is the Griffindor ghost, Nearly Headless Nick!

Evaluation

What kind of monster is powerful enough to kill someone who is already dead? Who will be the next victim of the monster at Hogwarts? Will the victims ever be revived? To find out you must read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! I have to say that the story was bright, fast-paced, intriguing, and ultimately satisfying.

Evaluative Summation

I like this book because it kept me wanting to read next page, and the next, and so on. The book is definitely a page-turner! I recommend this book to nine years old ans over.

Taken from http://nome.nosd.schoolaccess.net

Reference:

Gerot, L. and Wignell, P. 1995. Making Sense of Functional Grammar. NSW: Antipodean Educational Enterprises.