Learning Skills
References and additional Web resources
References
Anderson, J. & Poole, M. (2001). Thesis and assignment writing (4th ed.). Brisbane: John Wiley & Sons.
Clanchy, J. & Ballard, B. (1991). Essay writing for students: A practical guide (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Longman Cheshire.
Fairburn, G. J. & Winch, C. (1996). Reading, writing and reasoning: A guide for students (2nd ed.). Buckingham: Open University Press.
Hay, I. (1998). Communicating in Geography and the Environmental sciences. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1996)
Hart, C. (1998). Doing a literature review: Releasing the social science research imagination. London: Sage Publications.
Northey, M. (2005). Making sense: A student's guide to research and writing (4th ed.). Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press.
Wallace, M. & Wray, A. (2006). Critical reading and writing for postgraduates. London: Sage Publications.
Web resources
A useful site providing a sample review from Clanchy and Ballard (1985), with commentary on the features that make it effective.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/lls/resources-good-crit-review.pdf
These sites provide structured information about how to write a critical review. The second site provides an extract from a critical review written by a student, with some commentary on how it is structured.
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/critrev.html
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/critrev2.html
Critical review writing, Teaching & Learning Unit, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, The University of Melbourne
http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/pdfs/criticalreviewwriting.pdf
For the busy student the following site provides a one page description of how to write a critical review.
http://www.elssa.uts.edu.au/programs/EDUHSSworkshops/2007/Critical%20Review.pdf
If you like detailed explanations of how to do things, this site provides an extensive description of how to write critical reviews for readers in the discipline of Psychology.
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/resources/crs.html