How to write a book review
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How to Write a Book Review
How to Write a Book Review A book review is a description, critical analysis, and an evaluation on the quality, meaning, and significance of a book, not a retelling. It should focus on the book's purpose, content, and authority. A critical book review is not a book report or a summary. It is a reaction paper in which strengths and weaknesses of the material are analyzed. It should include a statement of what the author has tried to do, evaluates how well (in the opinion of the reviewer) the author has succeeded, and presents evidence to support this evaluation.
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Preface - Provides important information on the author's purpose in writing the book and will help you to determine the success of the work. Table of Contents - Tells you how the book is organized and will aid in determining the author's main ideas and how they are developed - chronologically, topically, etc. What is the general field or genre , and how does the book fit into it? (Use outside sources to familiarize yourself with the field, if necessary.) From what point of view is the work written?Do you know how to write a book review? I didn't. And even though I knew I didn't, that didn't stop me from firmly inserting my foot in my mouth by agreeing to conduct a book review writing workshop for my local Barnes & Noble. I blithely assured myself it would simply be a matter of picking up Book Reviews for Dummies, or something to that effect.
How to Write a Book Review
You may want to read about book reviewing. For books about writing book reviews, look up BOOK REVIEWING in the Library Catalogue. Two books which might be useful are:
How to Write a Book Review: Memorial University Libraries
Book Reviews - Libraries - Dalhousie University
There are two approaches to book reviewing: Descriptive reviews give the essential information about a book. This is done with description and exposition, by stating the perceived aims and purposes of the author, and by quoting striking passages from the text. Critical reviews describe and evaluate the book, in terms of accepted literary and historical standards, and supports this evaluation with evidence from the text. The following pointers are meant to be suggestions for writing a critical review. Knowing the work under review: This demands not only attempting to understand the author's purpose and how the component parts of the work contribute to that purpose, but also knowledge of the author: his/her nationality, time period, other works etc.
Okay, so you have to write a book review. What do you need to do and in what order? Here's a 10-step process you can use to review any book. 1) Don't read the book.
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Book Reviews
What this handout is about This handout will help you write a book review, a report or essay that offers a critical perspective on a text. It offers a process and suggests some strategies for writing book reviews.