Review

A review (lat. recensio, patterning ') or meeting ( sometimes anglicized in the German -speaking world to Review) is a deposited writing in print media usually, but sometimes oral published in radio, film, or television form of a critique that a treated the subject of a certain defined subject field. It describes their development according to their content of scientific knowledge or cultural creations such as books, movies, pictures, recordings, other works of art, concerts, and computer games and software, analyzed and evaluated.

Reviews are often kept rather short with up to three pages, but can also take far more pages to the circumference of a separate book in the form of journalistic essays. As part of a scientific discourse form reviews a direct response to, eg, a published in a professional journal thesis or theory.

Appear as part of the feuilleton reviews in a timely manner shortly before or after the release of their viewing the object. However, while for example in a movie review preliminary meetings are quite common, book publishers usually want to pretend for literature reviews and book reviews a date for this book after publication.

Usually equal to review several reviewers independently the subject of their consideration. Their rare unanimous vote can range from unqualified praise to Totalverriss so often even completely contradictory opinions and ratings are represented in the reviews.

• 2.1 in journalism
• 2.2 in science 2.2.1 Feedback of scientific works
• 2.2.2 Literar and textual criticism

Assignments

Literary genre

The review forms in which had become customary parlance a generic smooth sub-form of the secondary literature, going far beyond criticism, in -depth essays and treatises ( discourses ) since the 17th century either in magazine form in loose -leaf or even in book form on their look object enters an.

Accruals

Delimit From reviews, however, are mere summaries of the contents of a publication that do not vote and are referred to as abstract or paper. Scientific advice (peer review), however, examine whether a work is to be published at all as a book or in a professional journal. Please rate, not least in the quality of any statements for one academic field for inner consistency of any changes.

See also: Abstract, Presentation ( documentation)

Forms of review

In journalism

Reviews are often a part of the arts section and will be published for the public in journalistic media such as newspapers, journals and magazines, on radio and television and on the Internet. For specific topics, however, can also be found on each oriented trade and themed magazines that are dedicated to a single object, such as books, movies or computer games to their meeting. Both reviews in the feature pages as well as those in special publications serve mainly to give the face of the vast abundance of publications orientation and classification as well as to allow for meaningful purchasing decisions. Target group of such reviews are, for example, even libraries.

See also the detailed literature review section: " literature reviews in the feuilleton "

In science

Feedback scientific works

In scientific reviews (ie, reviews of scientific works, as they usually appear in journals ) are named achievements or the formal and substantive error by academic practices in detail, so that such critical discussions in the scientific community are an important feedback. For them there is also special because bibliographies that open up this genus, for example, has been published since 1971 International Bibliography of Book Reviews of scientific literature (IBR ), which is available in many libraries.

Literar and textual criticism

In Literar and textual criticism of the term as possible designated review comparing all text versions of a historical text in the manuscripts and editions of texts to determine the textual history and literary dependence of the different versions and so in a pedigree ( Stemma ) assign specific text traditions.

See also: literary criticism, textual criticism

Customer Reviews on the Internet

Internet retailers such as Amazon.com and platforms such as ciao.de invite their visitors to share their opinion about a product anonymously under a nickname, but also making note of your own name as " Testimonials ". His use of the term " review " does not extend more to cultural goods such as books, movies, and so limited, but to consumer goods and goods of all kinds. The text extent of such product ratings has not prescribed, but is still generally supplemented by a rating scale, on which the customers have, for example, to forgive, depending on the assessment of one to five stars. Although these expressions of opinion can be placed unedited and are only checked for legally banned utterances ( or precisely because ) whose reception is apparently regarded by the Internet retailers as revenue generator. So Amazon.de now offers itself as a " prolific writer " prove relevant customers free copies to " review " on.

See also literary criticism which it delimits sections: "Current development of literature review " and " literature reviews on the Internet"

Fictional review in the literature

In the literature, there is the fictitious review, which is the book review of a non-existent book. This may be a book that did not want to write the author of the review or a book to write this is not possible. Well-known authors who have written such reviews are Jorge Luis Borges and Stanislaw Lem.