Book Review guidance
For this assignment you select a book that has been published since 2010 and relates to business and/or communication. Read the book and prepare an informative and insightful presentation about the book. You may use additional materials to support your arguments. The presentation should explain the main thesis, issues explored and findings and conclusions, as well as how the material relates to the topics covered in the course.
A review is a thoughtful discussion of a text’s contents, strengths, and limitations. The review should reflect your capacity to read critically and to evaluate the author’s arguments and evidence. Prepare your presentation as you would any essay, with an argument supported by evidence, and a clear, logical structure.
To assist you with this assignment, below are some guidelines you may wish to consider in preparing your submission.
Read the book or study carefully, taking notes on material that you think may be relevant or quotable and on your impressions of the author’s ideas and arguments.Determine the author’s principal argument, the chief themes of the text, the kinds of evidence used, and the way in which the author uses them.
Provide the proper APA citation for the book you have selected, including all relevant information: the author’s name, date, the book’s full title, place of publication, publisher, etc.
Introduction: State the central thesis of the book and the main issues that you will be discussing in the essay. You may want to include some information about the author(s) and the motivation behind the work.
Introduce the work, giving your initial appraisal of the work, including your key observation on the text. This key observation will be your thesis. Try not to begin with a flat statement such as “This book is interesting.” Begin with an anecdote, a challenging quotation, or a key observation.
Follow with descriptive analysis and evaluation of the text. You may either treat these topics separately, first describing the book’s contents, the author’s argument, presentation, and evidence, and then offering your own evaluation, or you may weave the two together. In either case,clearly set out the author’s purpose in writing the book, and whether or not you think the author has succeeded.Describe the sources and evidence the author uses to prove his case, and evaluate their appropriateness and sufficiency. What are the author’s sources? Should the author have used more, or different, sources?
Body: You may want to consider addressing some of these questions in the main section of your review.
a. How much does the book agree or clash with your view of the issues covered? Use quotes as examples of how it agrees with and supports what you think. Use quotes and examples to discuss how the text agrees or disagrees with your position.
b How were your views and opinions challenged or changed by this text, if at all? Did the text communicate with you? Why or why not? Give examples of how your views might have changed or been strengthened (or perhapswhy the text failed to convince you). Please do not write “I agree with everything the author wrote,” since everybody disagrees about something, even if it is a tiny point. Use quotes to illustrate your points of challenge, or where you were persuaded, or where it left you cold.
c. How well does the book address things that you, personally, care about and consider important to the world? How does it relate to things that are important to your family, your community, your ethnic group, to people of your economic or social class or background, or your faith tradition? If not, who does or did the text serve? Did it pass the “Who cares?” test? Use quotes to illustrate.
d. Reading “critically” does not mean the same thing as “criticizing” in everyday language (complaining or griping, fault-finding, nit-picking). Your review should be positive and praise the work as much as possible, as well as pointing out any possible problems, disagreements and shortcomings.
Is the book or study well written, or is it in some way repetitive, obscure, or confusing?To whom would the text appeal? What audience did the author intend?
Conclusion:Here you may make more general remarks about the text and the ideas presented in it. State your final conclusions as clearly as possible and mention your evidence for each conclusion. This is your farewell statement, so leave readers with something to think about! A ringing send-off that will stick in readers’ minds is sometimes the best closing.
What is your overall reaction to the text? You might want to comment on what you liked most about the work and what you disliked. What is your inference after reading the book? How do you think it has affected or might affect you or others who will read it?To whom would you recommend it?
Would you read something else like this, or by this same author, in the future? Why or why not?Try to sum up the principles, relationships, and generalizations shown in the body of the work. Remember, you DISCUSS, never REPEAT, what the paper says. Point out any remaining unanswered questions or unsettled points related to the subject of the text, or any problems that still need to be clarified or need more study.
Show how your interpretation in the review agrees or disagrees with other experts’ opinions, with what you always thought you knew about the subject before starting the paper, what you learned in class, or what “everyone” thinks about it. (Hint: Never “apologize” for what you have to say!)
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