Book Review

Bibliography
Rose, Mike; Kiniry, Malcolm. Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing. Boston: Bedford, 1998.

In academic thinking and writing, we can find information and detail explanations to develop further strategies to increase students’ skills. Rose & Kiniry try to help students in college that present a lack of critical strategies when they have to do papers, research or essays.
The authors state that students don’t know to differentiate whether a text is suitable or not to write an essay, and when they choose the book, the book is not appropriate for the essay. For that reason, in the text appears an introductory discussion with examples that make easier to comprehend the mistakes students make, followed by an explanation (examples included) that help to realize and point out the main ideas of how a good paper, essay or research have to be done. It can also be found, some suggestions to develop and increase the critical strategies.
Nevertheless, the book after introducing the main ideas, changes into a group of papers that are hard to follow and tiring, which is not attractive for young readers. This kind of help, we can take it to the school life, for the reason that students in High School do not think and write critically, their works are mostly vague, lacking of deep opinions and thoughts. They just follow weak structures to develop papers.