Tina Nazerian Book Review
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ENGL 1307.741
5 July 2013
Book Reviews have Feelings too Academic writing is basically writing you will start in college. Once entering an academic community with similar ways of thinking, speaking, and writing, it is important to also develop the skills to do these things in order to have a higher level of educational learning and to join others in conversational studies. Like any other types of writing, academic writing has many types of genre that follow under it. These genres can include research essays, journals, anything to annotated bibliographies and proposals. The genre that will be discussed in this essay is the book review. Although book reviews may not seem as important as other genres of academic writing, …show more content…
When asked about why book reviews are considered as a genre of academic writing, Nazerian expressed how important it was, saying, “The writer of the book review is synthesizing vast amounts of information to make a point, or points” (Nazerian). The writer gains knowledge through writing book reviews by learning how to ideally and effectively express and persuade their viewpoint. Although book reviews may be mistaken as similar to book reports, it is actually not identical. Book reports focus mainly on discussing the plot, characters and main ideas of the work, while book reviews give a sneak peek about the book and criticism on whether they enjoyed it or not …show more content…
It is not only useful to the audience but also to your self. As quoted by Nazerian, “They help make meaning of what people read or will read. They add to discussion within literature, which is vital. Merely reading books isn 't enough. Thinking and writing about them is important” (Nazerian). Book reviews challenges your skill to ask important and useful questions. The experience of writing book reviews will expand and enhance your insight on books and also take note of your audience. It gives you so many factors into consideration when writing a book review, therefore is a challenging experience in your education. It has made an important impact in exchanging information in college. It has taught people how to evaluate and incorporate their own opinion, thus is just as important as proposals, research essays, and other types of academic
Professor N/A
ENGL 1307.741
5 July 2013
Book Reviews have Feelings too Academic writing is basically writing you will start in college. Once entering an academic community with similar ways of thinking, speaking, and writing, it is important to also develop the skills to do these things in order to have a higher level of educational learning and to join others in conversational studies. Like any other types of writing, academic writing has many types of genre that follow under it. These genres can include research essays, journals, anything to annotated bibliographies and proposals. The genre that will be discussed in this essay is the book review. Although book reviews may not seem as important as other genres of academic writing, …show more content…
When asked about why book reviews are considered as a genre of academic writing, Nazerian expressed how important it was, saying, “The writer of the book review is synthesizing vast amounts of information to make a point, or points” (Nazerian). The writer gains knowledge through writing book reviews by learning how to ideally and effectively express and persuade their viewpoint. Although book reviews may be mistaken as similar to book reports, it is actually not identical. Book reports focus mainly on discussing the plot, characters and main ideas of the work, while book reviews give a sneak peek about the book and criticism on whether they enjoyed it or not …show more content…
It is not only useful to the audience but also to your self. As quoted by Nazerian, “They help make meaning of what people read or will read. They add to discussion within literature, which is vital. Merely reading books isn 't enough. Thinking and writing about them is important” (Nazerian). Book reviews challenges your skill to ask important and useful questions. The experience of writing book reviews will expand and enhance your insight on books and also take note of your audience. It gives you so many factors into consideration when writing a book review, therefore is a challenging experience in your education. It has made an important impact in exchanging information in college. It has taught people how to evaluate and incorporate their own opinion, thus is just as important as proposals, research essays, and other types of academic