How to Write a Book Review Your opinion is important—don’t be afraid to voice it in a book review Writing a book review is not the same as writing a book report or a summary. A book review is a critical analysis of a published work that assesses the work’s strengths and weaknesses. A prominent reviewer can have a major impact on a book’s reception. Many authors strive to have their books reviewed by a professional because a published review (even a negative one) can be a great source of publicity
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Writing Resources Writing a Book Review View in PFD Format A critical book review is a thoughtful discussion of a text’s contents‚ strengths‚ and limitations. A book review should reflect your capacity to read critically and to evaluate an author’s arguments and evidence. Compose your review as you would any essay‚ with an argument supported by evidence‚ and a clear‚ logical structure. Initial Steps: 1. Read the book carefully‚ taking notes on material that you think may be relevant
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Amazon. Com offers readers the opportunity to provide feedback on the books they have purchased. Reading through the reviews of The Grieving Teen: A Guide for teens and their friends the book overall received positive reviews. One reader stated‚ “Helen Fitzgerald has all the experience needed to be an excellent source of what is "normal" for a teen who is grieving. There is so little out there to help a grieving teen but this book is a huge help. My daughter lost a friend 4 years ago when she was 12
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Book Review: Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution- and what it means for America Today What kind of country is the United States of America? Is it really the land of the free or are the Americans controlled by an imperial presidency? Is America peaceful and prosperous? Is it possible to identify the source of America’s economic problems? Some people have a clear picture of how things really are; while others are never able to see the entire scope of
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JuN Professor N/A ENGL 1307.741 5 July 2013 Book Reviews have Feelings too Academic writing is basically writing you will start in college. Once entering an academic community with similar ways of thinking‚ speaking‚ and writing‚ it is important to also develop the skills to do these things in order to have a higher level of educational learning and to join others in conversational studies. Like any other types of writing‚ academic writing has many types of genre that follow under it. These
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Book review for “The New Gold Standard – the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company” By Joseph A. Michelli By Jie Zhang Cal Poly Pomona Winter 2013‚ GBA 671 Professor Ed von Leffern Book review for “The New Gold Standard – the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company” Introduction Ernest Hemingway once wrote “When I dream of afterlife in heaven‚ the action always takes place in the Paris Ritz.” The Ritz-Carlton becomes synonymous with perfection and luxury worldwide through its painstakingly attention
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In this Essay i talk about Joel Meyerowitz and i talk about his works and i explain what i feel about his images and i explain what i think about the composition and images.Joel Meyerowitz is a street ‚ landscape ‚ and portrait photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 1970s he taught photography at the Cooper Union in New York
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The Evolution of Finance: A Review of Peter Bernstein’s Capital Ideas The world of finance is ever-changing. Over the last century‚ the modern form of economic and financial theory as we see today has been developed and shaped by the minds of many. What we have come to know and accept as fact today were seemingly unheard of nearly fifty years ago. It is with the endless efforts of these like-minded scholars that gives us the opportunity to appreciate the tools and fundamentals we used today to
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How to write a book review Perhaps the best way to offer guidelines on how to write a book review is to give you an example of the kind of instructions and guidelines we (i.e. the academic staff) would be given by journals who invite us to review books for them. So‚ here are the instructions given to authors by the ‘Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders’. “A book review should be an objective and tactful evaluation of a book. The review should offer logic and fact in support of its evaluations
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Book review. My book report is on ‘Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D.Salinger Over a month I have really enjoyed reading this novel. It’s a very perceptive book‚ but only in one point of view: Holden’s. I never felt attached to the book in any form‚ and when I wasn’t reading it‚ there was nothing that drew me back to want to read more. However when I wasn’t reading I would ponder about the book a lot and question the meaning and depth that Salinger was trying to get across. It’s a very interesting style
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