Glossary
Convention: General (often implicit) consent; practice based on this; accepted social
behaviour especially if artificial or formal; accepted method of conduct used
to convey information (Oxford Concise Dictionary).
Critiquing: This activity is not limited to noting what’s wrong or bad about an article or
accomplished by trying to justify your opinion of the article. Critiquing a piece of writing
involves considering what the author has either told you or implies she or he is going to do
(prove, explain, interpret) in the article and evaluating how well or not the author has done
so. A critique can also serve to explain to its readers in what ways the article advances knowledge
in the field (or not). In this context, it means an evaluative, thoughtful overview of literature
(articles and books) in a particular field.