Book Review Criteria
The book review should be about 3-pages
doubled spaced in 12-point Times New Roman Font. It should be uploaded
to Canvas one week after we finish reading the book. The best way to get
a good grade on this assignment is to read the book, take notes, and
also look at different examples of book reviews from The Economist, The New York Times Book Review and newspapers and magazines.
Here are questions to keep in mind when you write your book reviews.
1) Does the review have a title that reflects the main point of view you are trying to get across?
2) Does the review start with an introduction that gets the reader’s attention?
3) Does the review address the main points and the arguments that the author of the book is trying to make?
4) Does the review discuss the evidence the author of the book uses to make these points?
5)
Does the review comment on how effective the author is in making these
points? What aspects of the book deserve praise and what need to be
critiqued? For example, does the author succeed in convincing the reader
about the main point of the book?
6) Is each paragraph in the review held together by one clear idea?
7) Does the start of each paragraph have a topic sentence that
contains the main idea of the rest of the paragraph? Does each paragraph
flow naturally to the next?
8) Has the review been checked for clarity and small mistakes?
9) Does this review represent your best work?
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