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    The document provides guidelines for writing book reviews, including preliminary steps like asking others about the book and understanding the publisher's policies. It recommends selecting a book to review, reading it thoroughly, and understanding its organization. The review should analyze the book's strengths and weaknesses, intended audience, and importance to society. It should be written in a concise yet popular scientific style and include elements like the book title, author, a quote, and conclusion. Finally, the review should be logically written and edited and checked by others to ensure it effectively summarizes the main ideas and generates interest in reading the full book.

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    The document provides guidelines for writing book reviews, including preliminary steps like asking others about the book and understanding the publisher's policies. It recommends selecting a book to review, reading it thoroughly, and understanding its organization. The review should analyze the book's strengths and weaknesses, intended audience, and importance to society. It should be written in a concise yet popular scientific style and include elements like the book title, author, a quote, and conclusion. Finally, the review should be logically written and edited and checked by others to ensure it effectively summarizes the main ideas and generates interest in reading the full book.

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    The document provides guidelines for writing book reviews, including preliminary steps like asking others about the book and understanding the publisher's policies. It recommends selecting a book to review, reading it thoroughly, and understanding its organization. The review should analyze the book's strengths and weaknesses, intended audience, and importance to society. It should be written in a concise yet popular scientific style and include elements like the book title, author, a quote, and conclusion. Finally, the review should be logically written and edited and checked by others to ensure it effectively summarizes the main ideas and generates interest in reading the full book.

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    GUIDELINES IN WRITING BOOK REVIEW

    Preliminary Steps
    1. Ask others who have read the book
    2. Always visit bookstores
    3. Understand media
    > policy, vision and mission
    > distribution (local or national)
    > proximity
    > organization of ideas
    4. Create reading habit
    - good mood
    - select your favorite theme
    Preparation before writing
    1. Select the book (buying or borrowing)
    2. Read by yourself
    3. Understand the organization of the book
    - Skimming
    - Reading introduction
    - Reading summary
    - Comparing and contrasting with other books
    4. Intended audience
    5. Strength and weakness of the book
    - misprint
    - mistranslate
    - lack of further discussion
    - lack of data
    - the importance of the book to society
    Some forms of book review
    Summary
    Elaboration
    Analysis
    Comparison (within the same author, to identify mainstream & with the
    different authors but the same theme)
    Emphasis
    1

    Language in book review


    Popular scientific style
    Concise
    What should exist in book review?

    Title
    Book data
    Write prolog
    Mention the title of the book or the status or data of the writer in the
    text.
    Quotation
    Intended audience
    Exclusiveness of the book
    Organization or what is being discussed
    Mention the identity of the writer of book review
    Conclusion

    Book data
    Example:
    Judul
    Judul Asli
    Penulis
    Penerjemah
    Penerbit
    Cetakan
    Tebal
    Harga

    : Demokrasi: Sebuah Tinjauan Analitis


    : Democracy An Analitical Survey
    : Jean Baechler
    : Bern Hidayat
    : Kanisius
    : 2001
    : 305 hlm
    : Rp. 34.000

    Writing prolog
    Question
    Main idea
    Mention the authors name
    Quote actual issue
    The worthy of the book
    Quotation of the famous writer
    Make judgment

    After reviewing book


    1. Editing
    logic and systematically written
    2

    number of pages in accordance with media space


    book data are complete
    whether other data are not missing (writers identity, title of book review)
    2. Asking others to read :
    whether the readers can retell the main idea of the book reviewed
    whether the readers are interested to read the book after reading your review
    whether your language style, the organization of ideas are not difficult for
    readers
    whether the readers can show you the strength and weakness of the book
    after reading your review

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