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How to write a review | Writing Essentials

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  1. hi folks it's miss teneticus and in today's video i'm going to talk about how you can write a review
  2. i'm going to cover the basics of a review and what parts a review consists of and in the end i have a tip on how you
  3. can get a higher result by simply changing a few words in your review if you want to skip to the part that is
  4. most relevant for you use the chapter indicators in the bar below so that you can go to that particular part but first what does a review
  5. consist of let's get to it [Music] so what does a basic review consist of
  6. well a review consists of an introduction it has a description of the thing you're reviewing and in the case of a film
  7. a book it might be a summary it has of course your opinion which is basically the review part and it has of course a conclusion
  8. and a verdict with a particular recommendation do you recommend this thing film restaurant whatever it is to the
  9. person who's reading your review so you're now ready to write your review and the first thing you need to write
  10. is your introduction now usually i would say write the introduction at the end but since the review is kind of different
  11. you can start with your introduction now the introduction is there to give some basic information about the thing or the film or episode
  12. or whatever you are reviewing make sure to follow the funnel shape and if you don't know what that is have a look at my introduction and
  13. conclusion video but it's basically that you start very general and you move towards specific and you know how general it is
  14. it really depends on the type of thing you're reviewing now your introduction might consist of some basic information about the thing
  15. you're reviewing so you might want to give some major characters or maybe you want to give the director or some actors that played
  16. in your film if you're reviewing a film if you're doing something else like you're reviewing your phone or your computer or
  17. maybe a tablet or whatever make sure that you give some details about the thing you're reviewing now sometimes
  18. it's necessary to add a second paragraph to your introduction in which you put this basic information and that's of course not a problem
  19. but important for your review is again make sure that it's concise and you only add information that is relevant next you want to describe the
  20. thing that you're reviewing and it's important that you do this objectively you don't want to give any opinions yet since you're simply
  21. describing something now in the case of a book or a film or series this is the part where you give a plot summary but it's important to keep it
  22. concise because we're not really interested in all the details of the plot you also want to avoid giving spoilers here
  23. unless it's very important that you include the ending in your summary because maybe you want to give your opinion about the ending in the case of
  24. a restaurant or something that you experienced you want to describe objectively what it is and how it was
  25. what did you experience when you were there how is the food presented it is very important to remain objective you're not giving your opinion
  26. in your summary yet in the case of an object you want to describe the object you're reviewing so in the case of a phone
  27. you might want to give something like the measurements it's weight how it's presented what it looks like the colors those kinds of things are
  28. relevant for an object that you're reviewing maybe you want to give specific features of the thing you're reviewing
  29. and only give facts that are necessary and relevant because you don't want to overload your reader with lots of facts and
  30. information that is not very relevant now in the case of a phone or an object or something else that has a lot of details
  31. what you could do is put this information in a table because then if someone is interested they can have a look at the table to
  32. find this very specific information now after you've given the summary or in this case of an object after you've described
  33. it you want to give your opinion what do you think of the product what do you think of the film what do you think of the story
  34. now make sure that when you do this you write structured paragraphs and if you need to know more about how to write structure paragraphs have a look at my
  35. paragraph structure video now what you could do before you start writing is creating an outline and in the next
  36. video i will show you how you can create an outline of a review so make sure that you're subscribed so that you know when this video will be
  37. out important for your opinion is that you give clear examples you don't want to give an opinion that's
  38. based on something that's very vague or something that doesn't really make sense so when you're giving your opinion it is your opinion and if you found something
  39. that you really like or maybe you don't like you can use it as an example to illustrate your opinion now in each
  40. paragraph make sure that you focus on one particular element now i'm not saying that you only need to
  41. give three sentences per paragraph paragraphs could be a bit longer but make sure that your topic sentence which describes the element you're
  42. focusing on really connects everything together in your paragraph so don't add things to a particular paragraph that is not described in your
  43. topic sentence and when you're done you can link paragraphs together using linking words or linking phrases and things like
  44. however although etc are very good words to use in the case of a review so after you've done all of this you've
  45. given your summary you've given your opinion it's time to write a verdict would you recommend this to the person
  46. that is reading your review you want to combine everything you discuss together in a good conclusion and this conclusion should also follow
  47. the upside down funnel shape make sure that your review has a clear recommendation because that's why people are reading your review
  48. now here are two very useful tips you can use in your own reviews one thing learners of english usually do is you stick to the same adjectives
  49. and in the review adjectives and adverbs are very important so what you could do is avoid particular adjectives by
  50. mixing them up and using them in different ways and one thing to achieve this is by using a thesaurus in the case of a word like beautiful you
  51. could use something like alluring or maybe something like gorgeous in the case of something like well written you could say that something's
  52. eloquent and finally instead of saying something is emotional you could say that something is poignant
  53. now a thesaurus is key here and if you notice that you're using a particular adjective several times have a look in a thesaurus and maybe you
  54. can use a different adjective with the same meaning now another thing learners of english usually do is put very in front of everything and
  55. that is something that you can simply avoid so try not to use very too much instead of saying that something is very
  56. important for example you could say that something is crucial and the same goes for a word like very funny
  57. you can say that it's hilarious and finally instead of saying that something is very good you could say that it's excellent now to
  58. help you with this i'll put a link in the description to an infographic from people at proofreadingservices.com
  59. and this infographic contains 120 ways to avoid the word very and that's basically it when it comes to review writing
  60. if you found this video useful please consider giving it a thumbs up as that really helps with this video coming along in the youtube algorithm
  61. if you want to stay tuned don't forget to subscribe and i'll see you in the next video [Music]

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