Review genres (e.g., literature review, critical review) are useful for developing students’ abilities to evaluate literature critically; they have been widely used in university contexts as assessment tasks. The ‘news and views’ article is one such review genre which is often included in science journals and which is increasingly used as an assessment task in graduate science courses. Published ‘News and views’ articles provide a synopsis and critique of a research article. Usually written by a senior researcher, they provide a good exemplar of critique. To investigate how ‘news and views’ articles persuade readers of their assessment of published studies, this article analyses the rhetorical moves and stance and engagement markers of published news and views articles. Findings were that moves in news and views articles had similarities with those in both research articles and review genres such as book reviews. Similar stance and engagement resources were used in news and views articles and research articles, but they were more frequent in news and views articles than in research articles. Based on this analysis, pedagogical applications for teaching critical evaluation of literature are discussed.

评论类型（例如文学评论，批判性评论）有助于培养学生批判性地评价文学的能力；它们已在大学环境中广泛用作评估任务。“新闻和观点”文章就是这样一种评论类型，通常在科学期刊中收录，并且越来越多地被用作研究生科学课程的评估任务。发表的“新闻和观点”文章提供了对研究文章的摘要和评论。通常由资深研究员撰写，它们提供了很好的批评范例。为了研究“新闻和观点”文章如何说服读者评估已发表的研究，本文分析了已发表的新闻和观点文章的修辞动作，立场和参与标记。结果发现，新闻和观点文章的动向与研究文章和书评等评论类型的相似。新闻和观点文章和研究文章中使用了类似的立场和参与资源，但是新闻和观点文章中的资源比研究文章中的频率更高。在此基础上，讨论了教学方法在文学批判性评价教学中的应用。