“…The term criticality was coined by Bruce (2014) to describe evaluative judgments made by writers within any field of human activity about some aspect, object, or behavior of that field. In the last few decades, criticality in academic writing has been approached from various angles using different terms like evaluation (Geng & Wharton, 2016;Tucker, 2003;Xie, 2016), stance (Biber, 2006;Charles, 2006;Crosthwaite, Cheung & Jiang, 2017;Hyland, 2005;Jiang & Hyland, 2015), and also voice (Escobar & Fernández, 2018;Lores-Sanz, 2011;Matsuda & Jeffery, 2012;Nelson & Castello, 2012) to show writer's viewpoints, emotions, attitudes, and positions towards certain entities or propositions. All of these are elements of critical evaluation and pertinent for effective literature review writing.…”