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Writing the Book Review

Once you have read the book and made your observations and assessments of the work under review, carefully survey your notes and attempt to unify your impressions into a statement that will describe the purpose or thesis of your review. Then, outline the arguments that support your thesis.

Your arguments should develop the thesis in a logical manner. That logic, unlike more standard academic writing, may initially emphasize the author’s argument while you develop your own in the course of the review. The relative emphasis depends on the nature of the review: if you are more interested in the work itself, you may want to make the work and the author more prominent; if you want the review to be about your perspective and opinions, then you may structure the review to privilege your observations over (but never separate from) those of the work under review.

Cover Page

  • Please be sure to include your name, course name and section, due date, and title of the book as well as the author(s).

INTRODUCTION

  • The name of the author and the book title and the main theme.
  • Relevant details about who the author is and where he/she stands in the genre or field of inquiry. You could also link the title to the subject to show how the title explains the subject matter. Remember this should be linked to government and/or politics.
  • The context of the book and/or your review. Placing your review in a framework that makes sense to others and alerts other readers to your “take” on the book. Perhaps you want to situate a book about the Cuban revolution in the context of Cold War rivalries between the United States and the Soviet Union. Another reviewer might want to consider the book in the framework of Latin American social movements. Your choice of context informs your argument.
  • The thesis of the book. Identifying the book’s particular novelty, angle, political motivation or originality allows you to show what specific contribution the piece is trying to make.
  • Your thesis about the book as it relates to our course content.

SUMMARY OF CONTENT

  • This should be brief, as analysis takes priority. In the course of making your assessment, you’ll hopefully be backing up your assertions with concrete evidence from the book, so some summary will be dispersed throughout other parts of the review.

ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE BOOK

  • Your analysis and evaluation should be organized into paragraphs that deal with single aspects of your argument. This arrangement can be challenging when your purpose is to consider the book as a whole, but it can help you differentiate elements of your criticism and pair assertions with evidence more clearly.
  • You do not necessarily need to work chronologically through the book as you discuss it. Given the argument you want to make, you can organize your paragraphs more usefully by themes, methods, or other elements of the book.
  • If you find it useful to include comparisons to other books, keep them brief so that the book under review remains in the spotlight. Please note accordingly.
  • Avoid excessive quotation and give a specific page reference in parentheses when you do quote. Remember that you can state many of the author’s points in your own words.
  • Important; You MUST link the themes, methods, or elements of the book to course related material. Reflections, comparisons, and relationships to course content relating to class reading, class discussion, notes, and/or class assignments MUST be included.

CONCLUSION

  • Sum up or restate your thesis or make the final judgment regarding the book. You should not introduce new evidence for your argument in the conclusion. You can, however, introduce new ideas that go beyond the book if they extend the logic of your own thesis.
  • This paragraph needs to balance the book’s strengths and weaknesses in order to unify your evaluation. Did the body of your review have three negative paragraphs and one favorable one? What do they all add up to?
  • Your final assessment may be of more opinion and belief, which is acceptable however it is important to include reference to book material that help to shape your opinions.

Important:

Note:The Cover Page and Reference Page are required but are not to be included in the total page count. Remember the book review is to be 5 pages of content, type 12 font, with one inch margins and stapled.

Note: The Review is due on the stated due date, there will be no exceptions or extensions granted.No electronic or Email attachments will be accepted.In other words, the paper must be in hand at the end of class on the stated due date.

 
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