Review is a text which presents critical analysis on events or works for readers or public audiences
Ciri-ciri teks Review
žFokus pada partisipan tertentu
žMenggunakan kata sifat untuk menunjukkan sikap, seperti bad, good, etc
žMenggunakan clausa panjang dan komplek
žMenggunakan perumpamaan
Struktur teks Review
žOrientasi: pengenalan hal yang akan diangkat
žInterpretive recount : ringkasan cerita, tafsir
žEvaluation : evaluasi atau penilaian
žEvaluative summation : rangkuman
Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix
žPengenalan /Orientasi (orientation) :
I absolutely love the Harry Potter series, and all of the books will always hold a special place in my heart.
I absolutely love the Harry Potter series, and all of the books will always hold a special place in my heart.
žEvaluasi 1 (Evaluation 1):
I have to say that of all the books, however, this one was not my favorite.
I have to say that of all the books, however, this one was not my favorite.
žEvaluasi 2 (Evaluation 2) :
When the series began it was as much of a “feel good” experience as a huge mug of hot cocoa. The stories were bright, fast-paced, intriguing, and ultimately satisfying.
When the series began it was as much of a “feel good” experience as a huge mug of hot cocoa. The stories were bright, fast-paced, intriguing, and ultimately satisfying.
žTafsiran (Interpretative recount) :
Order of the Phoenix is a different kind of book. In some instances this works…you feel a whole new level of intensity and excitement by the time you get to the end. I was truly moved by the last page. Other times the book just has a slightly dreary, depressing feel. The galloping pace of the other books has slowed to a trot here, and parts of it do seem long, as if we’re reading all about Harry “just hanging out” instead of having his usual adventures. Reading in detail about Harry cleaning up an old house, for example – housekeeping is still housekeeping, magical or no, and I’m not very interested in doing it or reading about other people doing it.
Order of the Phoenix is a different kind of book. In some instances this works…you feel a whole new level of intensity and excitement by the time you get to the end. I was truly moved by the last page. Other times the book just has a slightly dreary, depressing feel. The galloping pace of the other books has slowed to a trot here, and parts of it do seem long, as if we’re reading all about Harry “just hanging out” instead of having his usual adventures. Reading in detail about Harry cleaning up an old house, for example – housekeeping is still housekeeping, magical or no, and I’m not very interested in doing it or reading about other people doing it.
žRangkuman (Evaluative summation) :
A few other changes in this book – the “real” world comes much more in to play rather than the fantasy universe of the previous books, and Harry has apparently been taken off his meds. I know that he had a lot to be grumpy in this book, especially with being a teenager and all, but the sudden change in his character seemed too drastic. He goes from being a warm-hearted, considerate person to someone who will bite his best friend’s heads off over nothing. It just seemed like it didn’t fit with his character, like he turned into a walking cliché of the “angry teen” overnight.
A few other changes in this book – the “real” world comes much more in to play rather than the fantasy universe of the previous books, and Harry has apparently been taken off his meds. I know that he had a lot to be grumpy in this book, especially with being a teenager and all, but the sudden change in his character seemed too drastic. He goes from being a warm-hearted, considerate person to someone who will bite his best friend’s heads off over nothing. It just seemed like it didn’t fit with his character, like he turned into a walking cliché of the “angry teen” overnight.
The
“real” story seemed to happen in the last 1/3 of the book, and this part I
loved. I actually liked the ending (and yes, I cried!) as sad as it was. It
packed a punch and it made me care about the story even more. Still a really
good book, with some editing it would have been great.
OPERA MINI PHONE BROWSER
Opera has officially launched the best
phone web browser world widely. I've been using
it since last summer.
Here are the things that separate Opera
Mini out from other applications. Opera Mini is
small and easy to download and
install. Beside that Opera has made the process
simple by providing direct
access to download, no registration or multiple page view
needed. Opera Mini's
speed of downloading is incredible. It makes GPRS seem a lot
faster. It
compresses and down-sizes of picture on the server but not every web page
will
looks perfect. The header image on my blog doesn't show up.
I think Opera has done an amazing
job. I expect huge things from this. I bet you could
easily base a new
web-based business around this browser.
Opera Mini is just
about the best browser I've ever seen on mobile phone.
(Simplified
from: www.russellbeattie.com)
Analysis
Generic
Structure Analysis
Introduction/ Orientation;
Introduction/ Orientation;
the
best browser on mobile phone has been launched word widely by Opera.
Evaluation; Opera Mini is easy to download, has an incredible speed but image of the page isn't perfect.
Interpretation; I think Opera has done an amazing job. A new web-based business could be easily based around this browser.
Summary; Opera is the best browser on mobile phone.
Evaluation; Opera Mini is easy to download, has an incredible speed but image of the page isn't perfect.
Interpretation; I think Opera has done an amazing job. A new web-based business could be easily based around this browser.
Summary; Opera is the best browser on mobile phone.
Language Feature Analysis
Focusing on certain participant; I
Using evaluative adjective; best, perfect, easy, etc
Reviewed by Rodman Philbrick
I’ve never been to Alabama, but
novelist Harper Lee made me feel as if I had been
there in the long, hot summer
of 1935, when a lawyer named Atticus Finch decided to
defend an innocent black
man accused of a horrible crime. The story of how the whole
town reacted to the
trial is told by the lawyer’s daughter, Scout, who remembers exactly
what it
was like to be eight years old in 1935, in May comb, Alabama.
Scout is the reason I loved this
book, because her voice rings so clear and true. Not
only does she make me see
the things she sees, she makes me feel the things she
feels. There’s a lot more
going on than just the trial, and Scout tells you all about it.
A man called Boo Radley lives next door. Very few people
have ever seen Boo, and
Scout and her friends have a lot of fun telling scary
stories about him. The mystery
about Boo Radley
is just one of the reasons you want to keep turning the pages to find
out
what happens in To Kill a Mockingbird.
To
Kill a Mockingbird is filled with interesting characters like Dill, and Scout
makes them
all seem just as real as the people in your own hometown. Here’s how
Scout describes
Miss Caroline, who wore a red–striped dress: “She looked and
smelled like a
peppermint drop.”
The larger theme of the story is about racial intolerance, but Scout never
tries to make it
a “lesson,” it’s simply part of the world she describes.
That’s why To Kill a Mockingbird
rings true, and why it all seems so
real.
Even though the story took place many years ago, you get the idea that parts of
it could
happen today, in any town where people distrust and fear each other’s
differences.
In a just world an innocent man
should be found not guilty. But if you want to know
whatthis particular jury
finally decides and what happens to Scout and Jem
and Dill and
Boo Radley and the rest of the people who
live and breathe in To Kill a Mockingbird,
you’ll have to read the book.
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks ( Warner Books
Romance ISBN: 0446605239 )
When author Nicholas Sparks sat down to write The Notebook, a tender love story
inspired by the enduring relationship of his wife Cathy’s grandparents, he
wanted his
readers to walk away with a renewed spirit of hope. “I’ll never
forget watching those two
people flirt,” he recalls. “I mean, you don’t see
that very often. They’d been married 67
years, and yet they still loved each
other. I wanted to write a book about that kind of
love. I wanted people to
know that unconditional love does exist.”
So Sparks created The Notebook, the
simple story of Noah Calhoun, a soft spoken
North Carolina outdoorsman who
carried his love for the willowy Allie Nelson with him
long after their
youthful romance had ended. He paralleled Noah’s silent passions with
Allie’s
haunting thoughts—feelings she could not escape even after she became
engaged
to another man. He asked his readers to consider what it might mean if these
relatively happy, middle-aged people found their destinies once again
overlapped.
He presented a question all but
universal in appeal: What would happen if two people
were given a second chance
at the love of a lifetime? Sparks deftly answers that
question. But it’s the
inspiration drawn from his real life grandparents that makes The
Notebook more
than just a novel of flames reignited. The novel opens and closes with
an
elderly Noah Calhoun reading aloud from his personal journals and “notebooks.”
And
as he shares the delicate details, the good with the bad, it’s clear he is
as enchanted
with Allie in old age as he was on the day they met. “And that’s
the legacy of The
Notebook,” according to Nicholas Sparks. “When love is real,
it doesn’t matter what
turns the road takes. When love is real, the joys and
possibilities are endless.”
Jurrasic Park: The Lost World
A reviewer from Indonesia :
Good morning to all the fans of
science-fiction movies. Welcome back with me, Putri
Made Lestari, in an adventure program, Science-fiction review. Do you still
remember
the story of Jurassic Park I? Great! I absolutely love Jurassic Park
and all the science
fiction movies will always please the fans, including me.
The Lost World is Jurassic Park
Part II, which is still about an island
populated with real dinosaurs. Released in 1997.
This science-fiction adventure is the
sequel to the box-office hit Jurassic Park (1993), in
which a scientist built a
dinosaur theme park on a remote island. Although those
dinosaurs were
destroyed, there were still some left on another island. Dr. Sarah
Harding,
played by Julianne Moore, and Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum,
travel to the island to observe the dinosaurs and try to prevent Roland Tembo
who is
played by Pete Postlethwaite
from rounding the beasts up and taking them to a theme
park in the United
States. The weather turns bad, the dinosaurs become violent, and
one of the
angry beasts makes its way to Los Angeles, California. It’s very amazing,
isn’t
it?
Okay audience, with me this morning is Mr.Steven
Spielberg, the director of the
Jurassic Park. Good morning and welcome to
Indonesia. I’d be glad to have your view
on Jurassic Park. Steven Spielberg: To
be perfectly frank, this is not a science fiction,
it’s science eventually.
This movie, however, wants you to learn one thing: you decide
you can control
nature, and from that moment on you’re in deep trouble because you
can’t do it.
You can make a boat, but you can’t make the ocean. You can make an
aeroplane,
but you can’t make the air. Your powers are much less than your dreams
would
have you believe.
The reviewer from Indonesia: Wow,
Jurassic Park really deserves the highest praise.
Thanks for joining with Mr.
Steven Spielberg and me. See you tomorrow on the same
program. Bye.
The Guy Next Door ( Meggin Cabot )
A novel normally consists of
chapters. But you will find none in this book. Why?
Because it consists of
e-mails. Yep, you read me right, they are a bunch of e-mails from
people who
keep in touch with each other and talk about all kinds of seemingly
unrelated
things, which somehow share a common thread, in a humorous way.
Melissa Fuller is a journalist working
for the New York Journal. From her and her
friend’s e-mails, we get the
impression that Melissa is an attractive, intelligent, redhaired
single girl
with a kind heart toward her friends and animals. After an accident and some
arrangements, she ends up living next door to a handsome stranger whom she
believes
is the nephew of her elderly neigbor.
Actually, he is not what he admits he is. But before
she knows it, they fall in
love with each other. Will she be able to accept the fact that the
gorgeous guy
next door has been lying to her even though they both share the same
feelings?
Meggin
Cabot alias Meggin Patricia Cabot is also the writer
of the successful teenage
series The Princess’ Diaries. The Guy Next Door is
her debut in the genre of
contemporary adult novel. It discusses relationships,
working environments, and solving
a mystery from many people’s different point
of view. Just like her other books, The Guy
Next Door is amusing, refreshing,
and enlightening altogether. I wonder what this and
other writers will do next,
create a novel out of cluster of SMS’s, perhaps? THAT would
be cool.
2012 Film Review
2012
is Roland Emmerich's
film which uses the Mayan calendar and other end-of-days
prophecies for their
doomsday scenario. It imagines the world coming to an end in
2012.
2012 film brings off a series of wonders. The movie hits its peak early on. It
starts when
Cusack drives a limo through the streets of Los Angeles as freeways
and skyscrapers
crumble all around him from the shock of a 10.5 earthquake. The
preposterous flying
sequence is equally thrilling. The climax occurs aboard the
giant ark, when an
equipment malfunction almost threatens the entire
mission.
Unfortunately, the crucial sequence is not filmed or edited with the requisite
clarity. In
2012 film, Emmerich
leaves us befuddled as to exactly what is happening to whom.
However, Emmerich'
2012 deserves credit for offbeat casting. Cusack supplies his
trademark hangdog
charm. McCarthy has perhaps his best role ever as Peet's
cocky.
Danny Glover lends dignity to the role of the tormented president. Chiwetel
Ejiofor,
as
the chief scientist, brings a moving sense of anguish to a stock role. Platt
has fun
playing the villain of the piece, and Woody Harrelson also chews the
scenery as a bug
eyed radio prophet trying to warn his listeners about
Armageddon.
All in one, 2012's cinematography, production design and visual effects are
awards
worthy. Music also propels the movie. It presents American Idol
runner-up, Adam
Lambert, who provides a rousing anthem over the end
credits.
Simplified from:
www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/2012-film-review-1004041300.story
Zenni optical
Eyeglasses will become more and
more important. It is not only because for protecting
our eyes from the hot
light but also for holding the trend. There are a lot of online sites
which
provides products of eyeglasses but Zenni Optical was on FOX news! is just the
perfect one.
If
we visit the site, we will easily catch various information about eyeglasses.
The site is
quite simple but very informative. It is real, easy and not
complicated design. With quick
loading this site will bring us quickly in to
what we want.
and rimless frame are available. The eyeglasses
are designed for different users.
Eyeglasses for children, woman and man are
available choice. Again, what makes it
in cheap price because it has cut the
marketing link. It straightly goes to the end user.
BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM
Many of us want to build new
business or manage the old one to make big
development. Business plan has been
analyzed. The property and equipment have
been listed. However this good plan
and preparation will not run well without
enough cash in hands.
What we have to do when we have to face
such condition? Will we give up and
sleep leaving that good plan and
preparation? We should not. When there is a will
there is a way. The answer is
finding Business Loans
program which offer the best
service. Easy process is one of the
characteristics. Of course we do not want to
apply the loan in complicated
process. Some programs offer the easy service in
processing but some time they
do not give funding quickly. In the other hand we do
need the cash for running
our business.
The best program of Business
Loan will provide easy process in
application, fund
quickly as we urgently need the cash and provide the
excellent service with fully
customer support. So if you have found such
program, apply soon to increase your
own business profit.
GOOD TRANSLATION
Translation is transferring not
only words by word but also message to message. In
certain case, it will be
quite difficult to make translation. How is to make good
Arabic
translation from English phrase of “as white
as snow” meanwhile there is no
snow in Arabian?
The basic requirement of a good
translator is mastering resource and target
language with all non-linguistic
aspect . If he is an English translator and wants to
make Hindi
translation, he should understand well the
language and aspect of
India. Similarly, if he works with Farsi
translation, he has to be familiar with
linguistics and non-linguistics of Farsian.
However, translation providers can
bridge that difficulty. The translation experts,
such as India
translation will help to fix the problem. The
experts who have
grammatical, lexical, sociolinguistics specialization will
match in transferring the
message from one language to another language.
A TAMM CREATION
The loved people will make us do
everything. They have great impact on us. We will do
anything for them. Luckily
we have ability to catch the advantage of that "force", one
example
is a TAMM creation.
This site is built with the motivation to do everything for
the kids and
fortunately supported by the husband. After all, we find that this site is
composed by a mother. Now she has and run her own business.
She loves writing as it is said in her
previous pos 'freelance writing'. It is a great interest.
Firstly it is just
for fun but in the end she eagerly to write a book. At least by writing she
has
opportunity to share her idea, thought, and creation. She understands well that
writing has strong power for socialization personally and profitably. This blog
where she
writes on used to be a medium for her to run his business, selling
handicraft creation.
As everything had changed she focused on topic of kid and
family. She has been a
writer.
ALL ABOUT OHIO SPORTS
It is time for men speak. If
previous post is about kid and mother, this post is about men
and their
masculine stuff. Sport is always attracted us much. It shows power, strength,
strategy, dedication and commitment.
This site features Ohio
State player and recruit interviews of football, basketball and
National Football League of America information completely with top pictures.
It
presents scores and improvement of player and game. This site is useful
resource for
sport affiliates; player, spectator, commentator, journalist,
coach and others.
It also provides news area which a lot
of up-to-date information about sport and things
related to it. Beside that, it
also gives forum area where visitors have opportunity in
interact with others.
They can discuss a hot news and topic. They can ask certain
question while
others give comment. If they maximally use these facilities, they will be
strongly connected and appear as solid community on sport.
RECORDING MUMMY JOURNEY
Life itself is a journey. For
Rosemarie, a pretty young Filipino single mother
for 2-year
kid, the daily activities are worthily documented. The site is her
effort to record of what
she did, does and will do daily.
The site consists of several topic;
family, motherhood, shopping, money, love fashion
and shopping. These topics
are close related to her own life. She is not only young but
also pretty and
she has a kid. These topics will be useful to her. Rosemarie is also
interested
with making money, internet, business, computer, loan and other interesting
stuff. She is a widely knowledge mom.
The template design of her site is very girly, pink centered. She has arranged
her site
very attractive, fresh and bright. Again, this physical appearing site
must represent her
personal mood because she is a young and pretty mom. I like
this site and you, young
mothers, surely will like the site too.
MAKING MONEY ONLINE
I read the description of this blog
which has title The World is Yours Now and I straightly
catch the point that this blog is about how to make
money online. I have read several
such point blogs but this one is different.
This blog is strongly motivated reader that
there is wide opportunity to make
money online especially through writing blog.
This
blog gradually guides reader how to make money through blog fast and easily.
There are ways to make money by blogging. Bloggers can apply some pay per click
program. They can write for some reviews in their blogs and receive payment for
their
approval reviews. They can build massive affiliate program by selling
good and service
of certain merchant and getting payment for what they sell.
This blog shows reader that
the opportunity of making money is widely open.
This blog tries to open the reader's
mind and show how to do to earn money by
blogging. Certain content itself about
their own to make money by blogging.
A SITE FROM REOG BOY
It has been appearing. It calls its
self gusblake.
It is a site of a boy from Ponorogo.
If
you have not known Ponorogo yet,
it is one of regencies in East Java, Indonesia.
Recently, this town has
appeared as public issues because Reog Ponorogo,
one of its
local genius traditional dances got on the stage in Malaysia as its
icon. I am not going to
talk about this traditional culture. Instead of it, a
site which has been built by a young
boy with this local reog
spirit has attracted me much.
This site is trying to attract to the
world. With its physical design, it is simple but easily
eyes catcher. Each of
the pages is divided into three columns with different size. The
left wider
column is for main content. The central positioned column is seemingly
designed
for monetizing and SEO tools. The rest column which takes place in the right
side is taken place by archives, content summary and blogging community.
This site concentrates to several
topics, namely health, information, tips, trick, thought,
personal sharing,
technology, refreshing, travel and other topics. The author named
Sofyan
tries to present these topics seriously but in nice way.
ONLINE SHOPPING SOFTWARE
Internet makes great impacts on the
way we do something, including running business.
Formerly, business had to be
physically conducted by face to face. Now days, it has
changed. It may be
conducted by computer to computer. This way is then what we call
electronic
commerce, or in short e-commerce.
Since internet has spreaded
and appeared trustful, many businessmen rely on it. They
have ability to run
their business in easy way, flexible place and time. They can sell and
buy good
and service from others in any scale, small or big business.
The e-commerce software which merchants
and buyer possibly do transactions through
internet is shopping
cart software. It is designed specially to
run online store business. It
helps merchants to manage their store through
internet; from any where, any time and
any internet connection. Commonly
shopping cart software is completely supported with
web optimization. It has
been designed to have top page rank in any search engine
tool. Besides that, the facilities such; customer
support, security tool, fraud protection,
web customization and handful
operation will be included in a package of a good
shopping cart software.
GUIDE TO JAPANESE POP CULTURE
Cassandra Morgan is a married
woman. She has a kid. As other fixed family, she likes
pets too. She does not
close her self to popular stuff; movie, game, electronical
equipments, artist life, progressive music and others. In fact she is a
Japanese pop
culture its self.
She has been building her website, The
Geek Within. She has composed her reviews
to various
topics in side pop culture. She presents them to be known that they are the
recent life of Japanese. Music, interest, digital equipments and accessories
are found in
her subject. She eagerly strengthens her website as another side
of medium for
communication.
She has been familiar with various
games. She writes about what she has known. What
she writes in her blog is
short but effective. It just shows the way, walking through or not
is up to the
reader. She has a brave heart to show what she has known but she has a
willingness to accept any suggestion.
GOOD YOUNG MOTHER
It is about a young mother. It has
a title of yummy mummy.
This blog is representative
of her idea of becoming young mother. He pours her
thought and opinion on this blog in
relating her position of a mother of kid
and a wife of a husband. Beside that, she is
trying to monetizing it.
This blog has fresh physical
appearance. She choose green border of her template.
She is young therefore she
has to have a blog look fresh and energetic. She looks to
have strong care to
her baby that is why we find her monthly calendar of feeding milk to
her baby
attaches on the header of the blog.
She is not only a good mother for
her baby but also a good wife for her husband. She
expresses it in her post
labeled wedding anniversary. It is a romantic scene. In the last
she is
monetizing this blog. It must help her husband support financially the family.
It is
really a reference blog for every young mother and wife.
AN ATTRACTIVE MOTHER
The title is yummy baby
and the Author's nick name Yummy Mummy. It is clear enough
to be said that this
blog is composed by a mother to her baby. After reading her post I
find that
the mother and father got the second marriage anniversary. Now they have a
very
chubby baby. I should say congratulation on their completely fixed nice
family.
This blog is written in the third
person point of view. The third person is the baby itself. It
shows that the
mother has big effort to take care and do everything for her baby. It is a
very
motherly tasted blog. I like the way she write on her blog. She writes about
her
daily care on her baby. He makes record on her baby development. All these
materials
of taking care about her baby are the main resource in writing
contents for her blog. It is
a very useful blog especially for any mother and
babysitter. Of course, any father will
get advantage to read this blog.
