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Examples of critical reviews

Students often, and sensibly ask for example CRs (critical reviews). Often if you go to the right PAL session, the facilitators will bring theirs in as examples. If you do the reciprocal peer critiquing exericse in your tutorial group(s), where each student reads and comments on two other CRs, then you will have seen examples.

I have put some of my past students' CRs on the web because I think they are generally useful, so you can look at them if you like. No marks or comments are available for these.

• Ian McCubbin on Tinto's theory of student dropout
• M.Nimmo (2005) Placebo: Real, Imagined or Expected? A Critical Experimental Exploration
• J.Woolfson (2009) Questioning the Power of the Placebo Given the Substantial Psychological and Physiological effects Generated by Placebos, should Pharmacologically Inactive Medicines be considered Ineffective or Indispensable?
• A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY INVOLVED IN VIDEO CONFERENCING. Christopher. P. O'Donnell

• Effects of group therapy in breast cancer: survival and psychosocial benefits by Sarah Gunn.
  This CR has an especially interesting structure: picking pairs of papers showing opposite findings on each of 3 points, so as to get critical points from the literature; and then adding a conclusion of the reviewer's own critical conclusions (about the literature).

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