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Useful phrases
Here are some useful phrases from the book by Howe and Henriksson (2007):
Reviewing other work

The title of the study, …, suggests that …
Topics covered or treated include …
The core of X’s argument is that …
The study or X touches on a number of points

What you agree with:
a valuable and important study of …
an important and original work on …
an important contribution to …
a positive contribution to …
an important contribution to recent work on …
an important contribution to the debate on …
The study makes several or a number of important contributions to …

What you disagree with:

It or the study lacks …
The author appears to …
X overlooks …
earlier studies of …
the existing literature on …
recent work on …
Y’s findings …
important or crucial data on …

Disagreeing with their method
A criticism of this explanation is that …
… an incorrect assumption

… unconvincing reasoning
… inadequate controls
… incorrectly assessed
… merely compounds the problem

Disagreeing with their results or conclusions:
The reasoning here is problematic
the conclusions are somewhat weak
X’s arguments … are unconvincing

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