write book review addressing the following main question:
“How useful would this book be to scholar researching
this topic?” Your analysis also ought to
consider the following secondary questions:
- Who is the
author, and what is his or her
level of expertise with the subject matter? - What
is the author’s main argument ? - What
specific sorts of evidence are cited to support the argument?
Are any primary sources cited? - How
successfully does the evidence support the author’s argument? - Is the book
clear and well-written? - Are there
any other weaknesses?
Please
note that you should definitely not comment on whether you found the
book entertaining or boring. I certainly hope you enjoyed the
book, but whether you did or not is not actually relevant to a
consideration of how useful the author’s work might be to scholars and
researchers.
The
title of your paper should be the full bibliographic citation of the
book you are reviewing (author,
title, publisher, year,
pages) in Chicago
format. See
the following links for more infromation on how to write a scholarly
book review.
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