Critical Review怎么写
Writing a Critical Review
The advice in this brochure is a general guide only. We strongly recommend that you also follow your assignment instructions and ek clarification from your lecturer/tutor if needed.
Purpo of a Critical Review
The critical review is a writing task that asks you to summarize and evaluate a text. The critical review can be of a book, a chapter, or a journal article. Writing the critical review usually requires you to read the lected text in detail and to also read other related texts so that you can prent a fair and reasonable evaluation of the lected text.
What is meant by critical?
At university, to be critical does not mean to criticize in a negative manner. Rather it requires you to question the information and opinions in a text and prent your evaluation
or judgment of the text. To do this well, you should attempt to understand the topic from different perspectives (i.e. read related texts) and in relation to the theories, approaches and frameworks in your cour.
What is meant by evaluation or judgment?
Here you decide the strengths and weakness of a text. This is usually bad on specific criteria. Evaluating requires an understanding of not just the content of the text, but also an understanding of a text’s purpo, the intended audience and why it is structured the way it is.
What is meant by analysis?
Analyzing requires parating the content and concepts of a text into their main components and then understanding how the interrelate, connect and possibly influence each other.
Structure of a Critical Review
Critical reviews, both short (one page) and long (four pages), usually have a similar structure. Check your assignment instructions for formatting and structural specifications. Headings are usually optional for longer reviews and can be helpful for the reader.
Introduction
The length of an introduction is usually one paragraph for a journal article review and two or three paragraphs for a longer book review. Include a few opening ntences that announce the author(s) and the title, and briefly explain the topic of the text. Prent the aim of the text and summarize the main finding or key argument. Conclude the introduction with a brief statement of your evaluation of the text. This can be a positive or negative evaluation or, as is usually the ca, a mixed respon.
Summary
Prent a summary of the key points along with a limited number of examples. You can also briefly explain the author’s purpo/intentions throughout the text and you may briefl
y describe how the text is organized. The summary should only make up about a third of the critical review.
Critique
The critique should be a balanced discussion and evaluation of the strengths, weakness and notable features of the text. Remember to ba your discussion on specific criteria. Good reviews also include other sources to support your evaluation (remember to reference).
You can choo how to quence your critique. Here are some examples to get you started:
•Most important to least important conclusions you make about the text.
•If your critique is more positive than negative, then prent the negative points first and the positive last.
•If your critique is more negative than positive, then prent the positive points first and the negative last.
•If there are both strengths and weakness for each criterion you u, you need to decide overall what your judgment is. For example, you may want to comment on a key idea in the text and have both positive and negative comments. You could begin by stating what is good about the idea and then concede and explain how it is limited in some way. While this example shows a mixed evaluation, overall you are probably being more negative than positive.
•In long reviews, you can address each criteria you choo in a paragraph, including both negative and positive points. For very short critical reviews (one page or less) where your comments will be briefer, include a paragraph of positive aspects and another of negative.
•You can also include recommendations for how the text can be improved in terms of ideas, rearch approach; theories or frameworks ud can also be included in the critiqu
e ction.
Conclusion
This is usually a very short paragraph.
•Restate your overall opinion of the text.
•Briefly prent recommendations.
•If necessary some further qualification or explanation of your judgment can be included. This can help your critique sound fair and reasonable.
References
If you have ud other sources in you review you should also include a list of references at the end of the review.
