BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
For many professional historians, w
BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
For many professional historians, writing splendid book reviews is their main method of publishing. Book reviews are just that—they are reviews. They are not chapter by chapter descriiptions of a book’s content.
INSTRUCTIONS
For this assignment, using the Book Review List located in the Module 1, review the book in 500 to 600 words. Make sure that you are using Turabian citation for the book you reviewed. If you use additional reviews they may be located using the online resources of the Jerry Falwell Library such as JSTOR or using the search engine Google Scholar. Make sure that you are siting all additional reviews that you have used in your synthesis of their material.
Be sure that you do the following in the review:
1. At the top, include a complete bibliographic entry of the book reviewed.
2. The review must be between 500 and 600 words
3. Do not use footnotes of the book reviewed. Instead, you must use Turabian “name/date” format in a parenthetical citation. Ex. (Wilson, 79).
4. Citations of consulted reviews should be done through Turabian-formatted footnotes.
5. Summarize the author’s thesis.
6. Explain what evidence the author relies upon to support the thesis.
7. Analyze the author’s argument, logic, coherence, and application. You are welcome to find fault if it exists. Pay attention to other reviews, and how they handle books on a similar topic. When you use any analysis gained from any other review, cite the review in a footnote.
8. Conclude with an encouraging statement. All too often, book reviews are nasty. Find at least 1 positive thing about the book.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.