How to write a review | Writing Essentials
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0:00 hi folks it's miss teneticus and in today's video i'm going to talk about how you can write a review
0:06 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
0:13 can get a higher result by simply changing a few words in your review if you want to skip to the part that is
0:20 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
0:28 consist of let's get to it [Music] so what does a basic review consist of
0:46 well a review consists of an introduction it has a description of the thing you're reviewing and in the case of a film
0:54 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
1:03 and a verdict with a particular recommendation do you recommend this thing film restaurant whatever it is to the
1:10 person who's reading your review so you're now ready to write your review and the first thing you need to write
1:20 is your introduction now usually i would say write the introduction at the end but since the review is kind of different
1:27 you can start with your introduction now the introduction is there to give some basic information about the thing or the film or episode
1:35 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
1:42 conclusion video but it's basically that you start very general and you move towards specific and you know how general it is
1:49 it really depends on the type of thing you're reviewing now your introduction might consist of some basic information about the thing
1:56 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
2:04 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
2:10 maybe a tablet or whatever make sure that you give some details about the thing you're reviewing now sometimes
2:16 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
2:24 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
2:32 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
2:38 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
2:46 concise because we're not really interested in all the details of the plot you also want to avoid giving spoilers here
2:53 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
2:59 a restaurant or something that you experienced you want to describe objectively what it is and how it was
3:05 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
3:13 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
3:20 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
3:28 relevant for an object that you're reviewing maybe you want to give specific features of the thing you're reviewing
3:34 and only give facts that are necessary and relevant because you don't want to overload your reader with lots of facts and
3:40 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
3:47 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
3:53 find this very specific information now after you've given the summary or in this case of an object after you've described
4:00 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
4:06 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
4:13 paragraph structure video now what you could do before you start writing is creating an outline and in the next
4:19 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
4:25 out important for your opinion is that you give clear examples you don't want to give an opinion that's
4:31 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
4:39 that you really like or maybe you don't like you can use it as an example to illustrate your opinion now in each
4:44 paragraph make sure that you focus on one particular element now i'm not saying that you only need to
4:50 give three sentences per paragraph paragraphs could be a bit longer but make sure that your topic sentence which describes the element you're
4:57 focusing on really connects everything together in your paragraph so don't add things to a particular paragraph that is not described in your
5:05 topic sentence and when you're done you can link paragraphs together using linking words or linking phrases and things like
5:11 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
5:17 given your summary you've given your opinion it's time to write a verdict would you recommend this to the person
5:24 that is reading your review you want to combine everything you discuss together in a good conclusion and this conclusion should also follow
5:32 the upside down funnel shape make sure that your review has a clear recommendation because that's why people are reading your review
5:42 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
5:51 and in the review adjectives and adverbs are very important so what you could do is avoid particular adjectives by
5:58 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
6:07 could use something like alluring or maybe something like gorgeous in the case of something like well written you could say that something's
6:14 eloquent and finally instead of saying something is emotional you could say that something is poignant
6:20 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
6:27 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
6:35 that is something that you can simply avoid so try not to use very too much instead of saying that something is very
6:42 important for example you could say that something is crucial and the same goes for a word like very funny
6:48 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
6:54 help you with this i'll put a link in the description to an infographic from people at proofreadingservices.com
7:00 and this infographic contains 120 ways to avoid the word very and that's basically it when it comes to review writing
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