BOOK REVIEW: Texas History

Due date: March 31

How to do Book Review:

Submit two double spaced, typewritten copies (original and photocopy).

Select a book about Texas history. The College Library has a number of books on Texas. Bring the book to the instructor for his ok before reading the book.

Steps in preparing a book review:

1. Read the book.

2. Determine the book's subject and time period.

3. Determine whether the author is trying to give the reader a broad picture, or is concentrating on a very limited subject.

4. Determine whether the author is presenting a particular interpretation of the subject, or is trying to describe the subject without presenting a particular slant or special emphasis.

5. Select a topic, analysis a argument, or a perspective the author presents which impressed you either positively or negatively.

6. Present your personal impression and/or reaction to the book, and to the author's interpretation.

7. Write a rough draft review of the book, incorporating the key elements form steps 2-6 (not necessarily in the listed order). The review should be approximately 2 pages in length double spaced. It should not be more than 3 pages long.

8. After the review has rested for a day or so, read it over, checking to see that you have written a clear, comprehensible review that encompasses the key elements listed in steps 2-6. Check your spelling, punctuation, grammar and composition. Type your final draft. Proof read it and correct and correct any errors you find. Make a second copy.

9. In the upper right hand corner of the first page should be your name and course number (History 1301.??).

At the top of the first page use as a heading the essential information about the book:

Title. Author. (Location of publisher: Publisher's name, publication date. Number of pages.)

Texas: A History. Frantz, Joe (New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1976. 220 pp.).

10. Turn in 2 copies of your review on or before due date.