Links: How to Write a Book Review

1. From Los Angeles Valley College

2. the Online Writing Lab at Purdue

3. Carlton College

After you read all of this advice, go back to the one we looked at in class and review the structure, how much contextual information is provided, how much authorial background is needed, where the book fits into it field, the author's purpose, the author's method of development...there's lot of ways to go. THE BOOK YOU ARE READING has to guide you. Everyone's will be a little different.

How to Structure a Rhetorical Precis

Sentence 1: Name of author, genre, title, date in parenthesis; a rhetorically accurate verb (claims, asserts, suggests, explores, implies, examines, argues, etc.) and a THAT clause containing the major assertion or thesis statement.

Sentence 2: Explanation of HOW author develops and supports thesis.

Sentence 3: A statement of authors' intended purpose, followed by an "in order to" phrase.

Sentence 4: A description of the intended audience and/or relationship the author establishes with the audience.