Pengertian Review Text
Secara harfiah, review bermakna "tinjauan, ringkasan, tinjauan ulang." Jika ada frasa book review berarti bermakna tinjauan buku. Karenanya,
review text bisa diartikan secara harfiah sebagai teks yang difungsikan
untuk meninjau. Apa saja yang ditinjau? ya apa saja lah, baik buku,
produk kecantikan, mobil, hp, laptop dan lain sebagainya.
Social Function Review Text
Ternyata review text bisa berfungsi sebagai to criticise an art work, event for a public audience. (untuk memberikan kritik terhadap suatu karya seni, ataupun lainnya untuk khalayak umum).
Generic Structure Review Text
Generic Structure dari Review Text terdiri dari :
- Orientation : places
the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it
with others of its kind or through an analog with a non–art object or
event. (menempatkan karya yang ditinjau pada konteks umum ataupun
khusus, biasanya dengan membandingkan dengan karya lain yang sejenis
atau melalui analogi obyek yang bukan karya seni.)
- Interpretive Recount : summarize the plot and/or providers an account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being.(meringkas alur cerita "jika mereview buku" bagaimana cara penyampaian karya tersebut)
- Evaluation : provides an evaluation of the work and/or its performance or production; is usually recursive.(memberikan sebuah evaluari karya ataupun penampilan, produksi; evaluasi ini biasanya berulang-ulang)
Sebenarnya,
susunan umum (generic structure) review text ini tidak harus sama
persis seperti di atas, mungkin karena alasan "meringkas" pelajaran,
jadi ketiga susunan tadi bisa sebagai gambaran umum saja, oke.
Masih
bingung? Yang nulis juga bingung :) Okelah mari kita langsung saja
memberikan beberapa contoh review text, yang semoga bisa menambah
pemahaman kita tentang review text.
Contoh Review Text (1) - A Book Review
Rhymes of the Times By: Harold Matthew Nash
Publisher: Booksurge
I
particularly liked the first few pages of this book where the poet
acknowledges those who have helped him and tells us something about his
life. Too often writing is a lonely task and poetry so personal that it
excludes others until they read the final result. But both poets and
audiences are intimately involved in the process. Readers are not
consumers looking for a pair of shoes, but people trying to discover
something about how they feel, as well as understand the emotions of the
person writing the poem. This spirit of openness and participation is
right here from the start in this collection.
Harold is one of nine children, raised by his mother. In the
Introduction he tells us about public moments that have shaped his life
(Martin Luther King’s ”I Have a Dream” speech, Muhammad Ali’s “I can
float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.”) as well as very private
ones like attending the wedding of a girl he was still very much in love
with. This not only gives us an insight into the person behind these
poems, it helps us understand their inspiration and connection to things
outside of the words. “The Bee in the Web” draws on the
“butterfly”/”bee” of Ali’s boast, yet expands on it to a message of
racial harmony as opposed to one of militant aggression and separatism.
There are some great titles (“The Martian and the Wino,” “W Stands for
Wrong", ”Fasten Your Seatbelt”) and lines that make us think (“Sometimes
I feel that life’s a curse, has front-wheel drive and no reverse” and
the very poignant “I hate in order to protect yourself—you pack a gun or
mace. So why don’t I say what the hell and hate the human race.”) There
are also some bad lines: “Her skin is cream, her body is slim. Looking
at her makes the average saint sin.”—perhaps, but what or who is “the
average saint”? The book ends with a sweet poem by Charla Angeline
Hultmann (and I really like the candor of her bio) called “Gift” and
“giving” is the real spirit of this book of poetry.
I
will be honest, I am not a fan of rhyme. There is a delight in adjacent
sounds rubbing together—vowels held and savored, consonants clicking in
a row—but “easy” rhymes (“head”/“dead”; “love”/”dove”; “moon”/”prune”)
tend to overshadow poetic subtleties, determine word choice and the
words themselves lose their meaning, becoming clichés. But this is the
music of this poet’s generation, and there is no denying that poetry is
more alive, more meaningful and more accessible than it has ever been at
any other time during my life. PS I do love the “Osama” “mama” rhyme.
In general I think it would benefit Harold Nash’s development to read
more of the published contemporary Black poets.
But form aside, this is an honest (courageous and unflinching) look at
life today—one we need to share together for the survival of us all.
That is “Rhymes of the Times” message. And it is a good one.
Contoh Review Text (2) - Product Review
Acer Iconia Tab A100
Acer
Reviewed By mikeandrew
While
the 10-inch tablet market is very crowded and highly competitive right
now, when it comes to 7-inch powerful and reliable slates, there are
still some gaps that need to be filled. The Iconia Tab A100 wants to do
just that, being a very interesting, portable and snappy gadget.
Design and display
When talking about 7-inch tablets, the
aspect is very important. The Tab A100 does not disappoint from this
point of view, being elegant and classy. The front face is surrounded
by glossy black plastic, while the back of the tablet is a dark gray
plastic with Acer’s logo in the middle. In terms of portability, the
Iconia Tab A100 is also a more than a satisfying device, being about
the same size and weight as the HTC Flyer, for example.
The 7-inch touchscreen with 1024x600
pixels resolution offers great image quality, contrast and brightness,
but does more of a mediocre job when talking about viewing angles.
Still, the display is overall decent and holds the comparison with the
HTC Flyer or the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.
Performance and software
- The Iconia Tab A100 features the already classic Nvidia Tegra 2
dual-core processor with 1 GB of RAM memory and is therefore at least
as snappy and powerful as any other 7 or 10-inch tablet on the market
right now. The cameras are surprisingly decent, the 2 MP front-facing
and the 5 MP rear-facing devices offering pretty much the best image
quality you might hope to find on a slate.
In
terms of software, Acer’s 7-inch tablet is set to be a pioneer, being
the first slate of its category to be powered by the Android Honeycomb
OS. Not only that, but it will run on the latest 3.2 version of the
operating system, which means that you will get loads of apps and
snappy performance.
Connectivity and pricing
- The Iconia Tab A100 is set to feature WiFi and Bluetooth
compatibility, as well as a micro-USB port and a micro SD slot card. It
would have been perfect if it would have featured HDMI as well, but
still it is pretty decent for a 7-inch tablet.
As far as pricing is concerned, the Acer
Iconia Tab A100, which has not yet been released on the market, will
be available for 329 dollars( the 8 GB version) or for 349 dollars( the
16 GB version). This is consistently less than HTC Flyer’s or
Blackberry Playbook’s prices, to name two of the important 7-inch
tablets right now.
Wrap-up
- While the Iconia Tab A500 is still struggling to become one of the
important names in the tablets’ world, the from this Android tablet
review it looks like a winner right away. Packing good technical
specifications, as well as a decent display and a revolutionary software
for a 7-inch tablet, Acer’s new slate also comes at an affordable
price tag and will probably mesmerize technology fanatics all around
the world.
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