“The Review”
(Source: Lindsay, D., 1995, Scientific Writing, 2nd ed, Longman, Melbourne)
According to Lindsay (1995) “the review” is “a special type of scientific article which is in many ways like an extended version of the Discussion of a research article except that your own results are not being discussed”. The function of the review in the past was to consider who was responsible for what in a particular field with regards to support the readers to have a quick overview of the research done up to the current time and use the bibliography to look up selected articles for further study. Currently, the role of the review has been changing and becoming more important, because it is provide a qualified new ideas, reasons and arguments based on the previous published articles.
The specific difference between a research article and a review is that there is no section of Materials, Methods and Results. There is an Introduction in a review nonetheless it is different from an Introduction in research article, because it contains an outline of the review. However, the Introduction is very important because it shows the topics which will be covered in the review.
The three important aspects of the review are providing new thoughts, reviewing all of the literature related to these new concepts and being specific. There are also several most interesting and important points regarding the review.
Firstly, the review remains an original paper, because although it contains data which has been published, nevertheless it presents new reasons, arguments and evidence on those data. Secondly, only use the relevant and valuable sources to develop the hypothesis and it must be clearly defined in the Introduction that its scope will only cite relevant sources. Thirdly, it is imperative to be specific and create a generalisation based on logical reasoning with regards to stimulating for further research. Finally, the main role of the reviewer is as an interpreter. Thus, a good review should provide new ideas through qualified interpretation of relevant data.
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