A review is any of the following:
1. survey of past: a report or survey of past actions, performance, or events a review of the stock market for the past five years
2. arts journalistic article giving opinion: a journalistic article giving an assessment of a book, play, film, concert, or other public performance The book got unexpectedly bad reviews.
3. publishing publication featuring reviews: a magazine or journal that publishes reviews the Literary Review
4. re-examination of something: another look at or consideration of something
5. US education covering of learned material again: a brief discussion of subject matter already learned, in preparation for a test
6. military military inspection: a formal military inspection
7. military formal military ceremony: a formal military ceremony staged to honour a person or an occasion
8. law judicial re-examination: a critical examination by a higher court of a decision taken by a lower court
Origin of the word "review"
Origin of the word "review"
15th century. From obsolete French reveue ‘inspection’, from revoir ‘to inspect’, from Latin revidere , literally ‘to see again’, from videre (see vision).
Reference
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Here's a review I wrote for a term paper in 2006.
A Review of Nuptiality Dynamics and Fertility Patterns in Contemporary Yoruba Society: An Overview by John Lekan Oyefara in Journal of Society, Development and Public Health, Vol. 1, No.2, 2005.
The writer, John Lekan Oyefara, who holds a doctoral degree in Sociology, began defining family demography, quoting Daugherty and Kammeyer (1995). He identified nuptiality dynamics as a significant variable in the study of family demography. Adopting Tilly’s (1978) definition of nuptiality, he opined that understanding its dynamics would aid policy makers in Nigeria because nuptiality affects fertility.
According to him, this study’s theoretical anchor is “structural functionalism”. This views society as a complete system. Applying this theory unearths other variables of fertility level. He assumed that the existing form of marriage would significantly affect fertility level in the study location (Ila-Orangun, in particular and Yoruba society, in general).
He conducted his study in 1998, employing over 300 female respondents whose profile showed adequate heterogeneity for making generalisation. He used secondary data from 1990 to 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys, referring to well prepared documents for empirically verified data in addition to analysis of his study.
He wrote that in traditional sub-saharan Africa, marriage is early, universal and interwoven with the system. Quoting Caldwell et al (1991), he maintained that the Yoruba traditional sexual system has been destabilized. Westernization and modernization are responsible, he wrote, citing Orubuloye (1981). Surveys show that in Nigeria marriage is no longer universal. His use of tables, division into sections and choice of words are commendable, showing style and logical organization.
He revealed that among Yorubas, age at first intercourse differs from age at first marriage. Monogamy and polygyny exist in Nigeria and the latter flourishes. Highly interesting and informative is the “polygyny-fertility hypothesis that women in monogamous unions have higher average fertility rate than those in polygynous unions. Pebley and Mbuguo (1989), Palmer (1991) and Isiugo-Abanihe et al (1991) agree while Olusanya (1971) and Feyisetan and Togunde (1989) dissent. He averred that marital stability, more certain after a decade, affects fertility.
He noted Timaeus and Graham’s (1989) discovery that late marriage affects fertility less than expected. Fertility rate of average Yoruba women is declining, national reports claim.
He, however, did not give the meaning of VVF nor the state in which to find
Ila-Orangun. He did not state why he chose the town as a representative sample.
He cited Haralambos and Heald (1980) but omitted this citation in the reference section. These are minor and do not reduce the intellectual skill shown.
His excellent closing suggestion is that government should channel adequate resources towards educating the Nigerian child and the proper implementation of population policies.
The writer, John Lekan Oyefara, who holds a doctoral degree in Sociology, began defining family demography, quoting Daugherty and Kammeyer (1995). He identified nuptiality dynamics as a significant variable in the study of family demography. Adopting Tilly’s (1978) definition of nuptiality, he opined that understanding its dynamics would aid policy makers in Nigeria because nuptiality affects fertility.
According to him, this study’s theoretical anchor is “structural functionalism”. This views society as a complete system. Applying this theory unearths other variables of fertility level. He assumed that the existing form of marriage would significantly affect fertility level in the study location (Ila-Orangun, in particular and Yoruba society, in general).
He conducted his study in 1998, employing over 300 female respondents whose profile showed adequate heterogeneity for making generalisation. He used secondary data from 1990 to 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys, referring to well prepared documents for empirically verified data in addition to analysis of his study.
He wrote that in traditional sub-saharan Africa, marriage is early, universal and interwoven with the system. Quoting Caldwell et al (1991), he maintained that the Yoruba traditional sexual system has been destabilized. Westernization and modernization are responsible, he wrote, citing Orubuloye (1981). Surveys show that in Nigeria marriage is no longer universal. His use of tables, division into sections and choice of words are commendable, showing style and logical organization.
He revealed that among Yorubas, age at first intercourse differs from age at first marriage. Monogamy and polygyny exist in Nigeria and the latter flourishes. Highly interesting and informative is the “polygyny-fertility hypothesis that women in monogamous unions have higher average fertility rate than those in polygynous unions. Pebley and Mbuguo (1989), Palmer (1991) and Isiugo-Abanihe et al (1991) agree while Olusanya (1971) and Feyisetan and Togunde (1989) dissent. He averred that marital stability, more certain after a decade, affects fertility.
He noted Timaeus and Graham’s (1989) discovery that late marriage affects fertility less than expected. Fertility rate of average Yoruba women is declining, national reports claim.
He, however, did not give the meaning of VVF nor the state in which to find
Ila-Orangun. He did not state why he chose the town as a representative sample.
He cited Haralambos and Heald (1980) but omitted this citation in the reference section. These are minor and do not reduce the intellectual skill shown.
His excellent closing suggestion is that government should channel adequate resources towards educating the Nigerian child and the proper implementation of population policies.
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