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We explain what a review is, its objective and what topics or objects it can address. In addition, literary reviews and critical reviews.
What is a review?
A review it’s a kind of text expository-argumentative, consisting of a critical evaluation of an object, document or investigation, by an expert in the field, or even a simple user. You can make reviews of books, films, records, plays, but also academic research, of articles and of virtually anything.
Of course, depending on the author’s journey and his argumentative capacity, the reviews differ greatly from each other. They can be very technical texts, aimed at experts in the field, or informative texts that expose a point of view for the general public to read.
Anyway, The purpose of a review is usually to provide an interpretation, an evaluation or a look to the thing, according to the author’s criteria. You can even rate it or give the public some kind of appreciation system that recommends it, or not.
Usually, it is a very free type of publication.
Literary review
Literary reviews are part of the literary genre of the test or criticism, in the sense that they are part of written texts to speak about other texts (fiction or poetry, for example). That is, a literary review It is all that offers an evaluative look at a literary work, that is, on a book of literature.
Literary reviews are governed by very free criteria, but usually they usually have an expository part, in which information is provided from the book, and then they enter into an argumentative, where they offer the reviewer’s vision of its content, often offering textual quotes. or third party judgments, in order to compose a generally short opinion about a literary work.
Critical review
They are called critical reviews generally those texts that, although thought of as a review of some kind, they go deeper into the argumentative content and hold their opinion or its criteria based on citations, verifiable arguments and other forms of validation that aspire to objectivity, or at least to the critical sense.
Usually are more extensive, require a more informed audience and they can become very specialized, such as scientific reviews or academic reviews that appear in refereed, university or technical journals.