Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Book Review Criteria

1) Mention the name of the author and the book title on the first slide.
-Click: Unexpected Insights for Business and Life by Bill Tancer

2) What is the author's viewpoint and purpose?
pp. 102: at the click of a button, we can find out what our society is thinking and what they are interested in and WHY!".

3) What are the author's main points?


4) What kind of evidence does the author use to prove his points? Is he convincing?


5) What do you like or dislike about the book's writing style? Is it funny? Does it give you a sense of the place it's set? What is the author's/narrator's "voice" like?


6) Does the author have the necessary expertise to write the book?



7) What are the most appropriate criteria by which to judge the book? How successful do you think the author was in carrying out the overall purposes of the book?


8) Describe the setting of the book.



9) Describe the book's main characters.


10) Did you like the book?


11) What was your favorite part of the book?


12) Do you have a least favorite part of the book? If so, what was it?


13) Would you recommend this book to another person?


14) What type of person would like this book?


15) If you could change something in the book, what would it be?

1 comment:

  1. Instead of tagging comment after comment for these 15 questions, I would recommend that you actually EDIT the post and put your comments under the questions below. Hopefully, if we summarize the majority of thoughts here-in line with how we will be graded-putting together the actual framework of the presentation that Melissa sent out will be EASY PEASY!

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