![]() A book review is a great way to step into the publishing arena. A review is small enough to not be intimidating and big enough to have substance in the analysis. We all love books and have our opinions on them. It's why we go to class and it's why we enjoy talking to other English majors. Read a book this summer and write a review about it. There are associated links to help you get an idea of how to write a book review. Two are examples of book reviews and the other is the format and ideas on physically writing the review. If you need more examples, search the Annie Gabriel Library "Onesearch" and limit results to book reviews. Read some and focus on the content, how the author critiques, what the author critiques, and the structure of the review. Shoot for at least one page, but no more than four. Remember reviews do not focus solely on the negative. Respond to what the author did well, how they presented information, their experiments with sentence structure (if any), how the author relays information to make the reader feel precisely what the author intends, etc. Again, for more information on how to write a book review see the last file written by Laura Belcher who also wrote a book on how to write an academic journal paper in 12 weeks. The article is easy to understand, helpful, and includes the format, which is drastically different from MLA academic papers written for class. The example articles are on "Maus" by Art Spiegelman and two books of poetry from Li-young Lee, "Rose" and "The City in Which I love You." The following article, "The Endangered Scholarly Book Review" by Lynn Worshan, makes great points about why we hold still write book reviews, in essence, reviews let us exercise our mental muscles and they give us practical experience in writing and critically honing our intellectual skills. This a great first opportunity to get a head start on writing book reviews. Submit one today and in the future, you will be comfortable with the format and have a head start on other graduate and doctoral students. If published on the site, you can write it on your resume in a "publications" section. This is just what writers and continuing academics need. https://chronicle.com/article/The-Endangered-Scholarly-Book/131361/ (this is the same article as the one linked above) If you need more sources, check out Purdue's Writing lab that gives advice on how to read a book for a review or Trent University's page on the structure of book reviews. ![]()
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How to SubmitFrom your lancer mail email [email protected] the review in a word document. In the subject of the email write Summer Book Review and in the body of the email be sure to write your name, academic standing (freshman, sophomore, etc) and that you want the review to be published on the website. You can review any book you want: classic literature, fiction, non-fiction, biography, self-help, a book you read for class, or a book you checked off your reading list. We will email you a confirmation and let you know if it will be published (most likely it will). Submissions not written in the proper format will not be published.
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