INDICATIONS

FOR BOOK REVIEW

The 2ond Review will be submitted via a task in the ATENEA course.

Remember delivery date (see Atenea course planning).

Reviews that will arrive later than the date set will NOT be evaluated.

Objective

The aim of the review is to convince the teacher that the book has
been read, and that he has brought some benefit to the reader.

Try to write the review as a comment for a blog or magazine saying
honestly your opinion about the book.

The review must include:

- Data about the book (the book publishing details)
- Who is the author
- The topics covered by the book
- Your reaction to the book (such as: "I like it when says ...", or "I do
not agree when says ... "etc.).

Normally it should include:
- A cover (see example included in attached file), with the student's
name and book title.
- Bibliographic data identifying the book (author, title, place of
publication, publisher, year of publication and collection) as in
standard bibliography.
- If possible, comment what you known about the author.
- Comment on the content of the book: topics, perspective, etc. One
way is to comment the index with more or less detail.
- Highlight the ideas that seem interesting to you (and comment why)
or the ones that seem controversial (and discuss them ...)
- In general, opinions and reactions to the reader of the book are the
most interesting part (and, in fact, makes it different from the
standard book reviews ...)
- The ideal length would be around about 10,000 (aprox. four pages)
characters, clearly, 7,000 or 8,000 (aprox. 3 pages) characters is a
minimum requirement.