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Unit 6: Writing a critical review

Dos and don'ts of critical reviewing:

  • Don’t simply provide a list of past studies – ensure you analyse and synthesise to provide an overall picture
  • Make sure you have identified the best sources of literature and given each source the due weight it deserves
  • Make sure you have demonstrated how your literature relates to the relevant wider picture
  • Don’t uncritically accept the results of existing literature – critically evaluate!
  • Make sure you have considered contrary findings and offered explanation

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SMILE - Writing a critical review by Steve Draper, Glasgow University, Dr Jane McKay and Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/resources/crs.html.