Text Book Review

Dr. Tapan K. Dutta Ph.D.

H.O.D.
Teachers' Training Department
Panskura Banamali College
Purba Medinipur
West Bengal
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 Text Book Review
A Text Book Review is a form of literary
criticism in which a book is analyzed
based on content, style, and merit.
Reviews are also often published in
magazines and newspapers. Its length
may vary from a single paragraph to a
substantial essay. Such a review often
contains evaluations of the book on the
basis of personal taste. 3
 Text Book Review
Reviewers, in literary periodicals, often
use the occasion of a book review for a
display of learning or to promulgate their
own ideas on the topic of a fiction or
non-fiction work. At the other end of the
spectrum, some book reviews resemble
simple plot summaries.

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 Text Book Review
A book review is assigned to secondary
and post-secondary students to help
them to develop analytical skills. First,
the reviewer has to summarize the
content, regardless of the type of novel, a
historical or critical book.

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 Text Book Review
In the subsequent narration, the goal of
the book reviewer is to discuss the
content of the book and provide analysis
of what he or she had read, and deduce if
the author managed to reveal the core,
whether he or she kept to the thesis or
properly achieved the purpose of the
book.
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 Text Book Review
The last thing the reviewer has to do is to
speculate on the topic himself or herself.
The book reviewer should also undertake
through their own research to discuss the
theme, assess the author's ability to
express and explore this theme, and
provide an opinion of the novel.

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 AIMs of The TBR
The determination of the book review is
to communicate to the reader's mind the
ideas and sensations the reviewer
experienced while researching the
content. In this way, the reader knows
what the author sought to transmit, or
what the reviewer experienced while
reading.
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 Text Book Review
The reviewer, then, takes three roles:
reporter, in informing the third party of
the events; analyst, in making judgments
based on experience; and sideline
observer, in pretending to act as the
reader should by expressing their own
opinion, desires and expectations.

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 Textbooks
Unlike the language in a monograph, that
in a textbook must not be technical and
jargon must be avoided. The reader will
be a student, not a peer of the scientist
who wrote the book. Technical terms will
be used, of course, but each should be
carefully defined at first use.

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 Textbooks
The function of the book reviewer is to
determine whether the subject of the
text is treated clearly, in a way that is
likely to enable students to grasp and to
appreciate the knowledge presented. The
textbook reviewer has one additional
responsibility: If other texts on the same
subject exist--which is usually the case--
the reviewer should provide appropriate
comparisons. 11
 As professional work
Book reviews require special skills and
oblige the reviewer with precise
responsibilities.
The professional reviewer does not just
have to read and scrutinize the text, but
to realize concealed, implied meaning
the author obviously had dropped hints
about.
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 As professional work
Skilled book reviewers' explanations
make the reader feel confident in their
perception of the book or change it
entirely. The reviewer must also state the
main points of the reviewed book.

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 As professional work
While some aspects are less meaningful,
others have to be marked out as
prerogative issues. The task is even more
complicated as the writer could
unintentionally imply the idea the
reviewer of the book can notice.

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 As professional work
Then the book reviewer has to decide upon the author's
point's validity. The reviewer has to be the judge and say,
Did the writer persuade the audience, or was his/her
evidence insufficient and weak? The reviewer here makes
a judgment on the adequacy of the book topic to the
content. The book review also evaluates the expertise of
the content's authenticity. By comparing the reviewed
book to other materials in the given category, the reviewer
work implies potential danger for those writers who admit
plagiarism. If the reviewer finds the book authentic and,
perhaps, unique, the points and attitudes of the reviewer
are discussed. rsrn should maintain.
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 Finding reviews
There are many special journals devoted to
book reviews and they are indexed in special
databases such as Book Review Index, but
many more book reviews can be found in
newspaper databases and in scholarly
databases such as Arts and Humanities
Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index
and discipline specific databases. Some book
reviews are available online.
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 Problems
Principally, book reviews are good sources for evaluating
the quality of books. Sometimes, however, the amount and
content of book reviews have been considered
problematic. Katz (1985-1986) found that there are too few
critical book reviews. This is also documented by Novick
(1988) in the field of history. Typically, book reviews in
scholarly journals are of a much higher quality than those
in newspapers. Nielsen (2009) proposes a theoretical and
practical framework for scholarly or academic reviews of
dictionaries that is intended to improve the quality of
reviews in terms of academic standards.
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