In short, be perspicacious and clear. Your review should give a sense of the bre

In short, be perspicacious and clear. Your review should give
a sense of the breadth and depth of the book, its strengths and its
weaknesses. In short, do not
merely summarize the book; evaluate it. Here are the kinds of questions
and issues that will help you in formulating your essay:
Who
is the author and what makes her or him qualified to write this book?
What is the major thesis
of the book?
How successful, in your opinion, is the author in his or
her attempt to convey
important information and what is some of that information?
Do you find
the author’s
arguments cogent and persuasive or not?
Was the book enjoyable to read?
What do you think
of the quality of the research or the truthfulness and relevancy of the
author’s account?
Did you
find the book to be well written or not?
What did you find lacking in
the account?
How have
you benefited or failed to benefit from reading the book?
In your essay, be sure to include examples (names of important people,
events, issues, dates,
enactments, concepts, etc.) from various parts of the book to support
your analysis and to
convey that you have read the entire book. Do not just simply string
together answers to the
aforementioned questions and consider that an essay.
Each book analysis should be approximately three pages in length and
must be typed,
double-spaced with standard size type and margins.
Do not exceed three
and a half pages.
Avoid extensive quoting. We are interested in your own words, not those
of the author. I’ll upload what I’ve started.