Research Guides: Book Reviews: Web Resources

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Here are a few reputable online sources that may guide you in drafting book reviews:

Writing Tutorial Services (IU) - Book Reviews
This guide boils book review writing down to three main parts: Describing what is on the page; analyzing how the book tried to achieve its purpose; and expressing your reactions.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
OWL has created tremendously helpful guides to depict how to use APA and MLA citation styles. It has given book review writing as nice a treatment.
UNC (Chapel Hill) Writing Center
This guide offers a process and suggests some strategies for writing book reviews.
Scholastic - Write a Book Review
This how-to book review primer is aimed a general audience though the site indicates the tips are for teachers.