Any of these reviews can be either descriptive or critical Try to find critical reviews, those will be most helpful for this assignment.
| Critical |
Descriptive |
- Long
- Should include
- Citation
- Discussion of the author's intentions
- Discussion of the author's ideas and the author's particular point of view
- How the book relates to larger scholarly conversation about this topic
- Errors in the book and their significance
- Importance of the book to the discipline
- The author's credentials, affiliations, and other relevant work
- The intended audience of the book and whether the author engages their audience
- Most often found in academic journals, and occasionally in The New York Review of Books and the New Yorker
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- Short
- Should include:
- Citation of the book
- Purpose of the book
- Summary of the main themes of the book
- Book's impact/how it compares to other books on the same topic
- The author's credentials, affiliations, and other relevant work
- Most often found in Magazines, Newspapers, and Choice Reviews
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