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Purpose of a critical review
The critical review is a writing task that asks you to summarise 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 selected text in detail and to also read other related texts so that you can present a fair and reasonable evaluation of the selected text.
What is meant by critical?
At university, to be critical does not mean to criticise in a negative manner. Rather it requires you to question the information and opinions in a text and present your evaluation or judgement 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 course.
Thank you so much Mr. Subir and Mr. Harshvardhan. this will help. I could understand the process how to do a critical review. A long way to go. But I am sure I will do a good job :)
You are absolutely correct but what you said may not always be true. You can find some reviews where cases of plagiarism have been exposed and there is not a single good word about the authors and their books. They really deserve it!