summary, articles or evaluations on books
I have a book review due next week and I am looking at how I can pull up information on the book (summaries, reviews, etc.).
Can someone help?
Blessings.
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Greg Ezell said:
I have a book review due next week and I am looking at how I can pull up information on the book (summaries, reviews, etc.).
As one who has done some teaching, I would gently suggest that you need to do your own work on this, not look at someone else's summary or review. First, look at the Table of Contents to understand the overall structure of the book. Then read the introduction, which will often lay out for you the author's main thesis and argument. Then read the book. Take some notes on important quotes and points the author makes as you go. Then write up a summary in your own words. What do you think are the strong points of the book? How has it impacted you or changed your viewpoint? You'll also need to find something critical to say as well, I'm guessing. If you find it hard to critique a knowledgeable author (many of us do), try suggesting some areas that you wish he or she had expanded on more. Then finish it off with a nice ending paragraph summarizing why you would (or wouldn't) recommend this book to others.
EDIT: If, after reading what I've said, you still really want to read some other review of the book, check the Critical Review of Books in Religion. But still, don't plagiarize someone else's review. Don't even quote it and give a citation for your source. Your teacher will not be impressed. That would be like quoting Cliff's Notes in your English paper, and would be a dead giveaway that you hadn't done your own reading and analysis of the book, which is how you learn, even if you don't do an A+ job of it.
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Rosie Perera said:
I would gently suggest that you need to do your own work on this, not look at someone else's summary or review.
Rosie Perera said:Your teacher will not be impressed.
Besides getting much more out of your own work.... it could end up a problem if you teacher is also reading this forum [;)]
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