Page 1 of 1 Article Review The purpose of an article review is to provide a summary and evaluation of a piece of writing. When a lecturer reads an article review written by a student, they want to see evidence that the student has not only understood the topic of the article, but is able to evaluate the article in relation to their own knowledge of the topic and other relevant knowledge in the field. The annotated example below provides useful guidance on how to organise information within your article review and how to select and use language strategies which help make your writing more evaluative. Annotated Example of an Article Review This is an authentic example of student writing. Therefore you should not view this as a model – while it contains many attributes of a successful article review, it is not a perfect piece of writing. The comments on the right hand‐side draw your attention to both strengths and weaknesses in the review, but are not comprehensive and as such you should not assume that sections of the article review which do not have comments are without problems. Please not that the language in this article review is not without grammatical errors. Functional elements Article Review: Introduction Language resources Citation: tells the reader which article you are reviewing and provides referencing details Overview: summarises for the reader the main points and goals of the article (this is important – your marker wants to see that you are able to identify these things) Overview of critical assessment: tells the reader about your overall assessment of Fabricius (2002), in her article ‘Ongoing change in Modern RP: Evidence for the disappearing stigma of t‐ glottalling’, focuses on the replacement of the /t/ at the end of words/syllables with the glottal stop / / in ‘Received Pronunciation’ (RP), a prestigious sociolect in Britain typically ascribed to the royal family and the BBC. This feature is traditionally associated with more localised varieties of British English (e.g. Scots, Cockney). The author aims to highlight the changing nature of both RP itself and also attitudes towards whether the inclusion of phonetic variations such as t‐glottalling can still entail ‘acceptable’ RP. This article is significant given that studies of sociolects Reporting verb carefully selected to add more specific meaning (compare ‘focuses on’ with ‘discusses’ in this sentence) Verb group carefully selected to signpost the student’s identification of the goals of the article Semi-technical terminology shows familiarity with