Writing a Critical Review Paper

This post is to give more readings for my students at Sebelas Maret University. The topic we discussed last week was how to do a critical reading. The discussion then continued on how to write a critical review paper. Writing a critical review paper can be used to assess the critical reading skills.

Below are some more references on how to read critically.

1. Critical reading & writing
2. How to read and write critically?
3. How to ‘interrogate’ texts
4. Steps of critical reading
5. Principles of critical reading
6. Critical reading of an essay’s argument

Here is a sample of a critical review essay that you can use as a model. Download the PDF file here.

The links below give you some tips on how to write a critical review.

1. Thinking, reading, and writing critically [.doc]
2. Writing a review paper [.pdf]
3. Writing a critical analysis paper [.pdf]

Well… now that you have understood how to read and write critically, let us now write a piece of critical review. Choose ONE of the following articles to review. In your essay, please use the structure as recommended by this source (Introduction – Summary – Your Arguments – Conclusion).

Articles to Review:

1. No more dolly
2. Staking the media’s credibility