beginning the review

Finding just the right sentence to begin your review can indeed be a challenge. Here are some very interesting opening sentences, which are here transformed into skeletal sentences for you.

[Author names] present a plausible case that ... Less adequate is their discussion of ...

[Author names] take on the difficult task of ... Unfortunately, ...

[Author names] present an important discussion of ... Although we may not agree on all the issues raised in the article, we praise the authors for ...

The article by [author names] is an ambitious feat of synthesis, encompassing diverse theories of ... This effort, however, is not fully successful.

[Author names] have written an important and timely article on ... Despite its many strengths there are a number of small, but important, weaknesses.