Reading and writing book reviews across the disciplines

J Hartley - Journal of the American society for information …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… of respondents writing book reviews in … for writing book reviews. Here there were some
significant differences between the proportions checking various reasons for writing book reviews

Why write book reviews?

F Obeng-Odoom - Australian Universities' Review, The, 2014 - search.informit.org
Writing book reviews is what you do after doing all the important things: they do not seem to
… senior scholars with little experience in writing book reviews usually require me to explain …

Write Book Reviews

DD Stevens - Write More, Publish More, Stress Less! - taylorfrancis.com
… The advantage of writing book reviews includes the fact that your writing is published. Having
a published review indicates that you are getting your writing out for public scrutiny. If you …

Why Scholars and Students Should Write Book Reviews

OS Crocco, J Zarestky - New Horizons in Adult Education …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
… and scholars should avoid writing book reviews. Critics might … many benefits of writing book
reviews outweigh the reasons … and investment of writing book reviews and encourage you to …

Views on book reviews

P Oinas, S Leppälä - Regional Studies, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… To create some space for reflection in the Regional Studies Book Reviews section, a few
different forms of writing book reviews were experimented with, such …

[BOOK][B] Playing nice, being mean, and the space in between: Book critics and the difficulties of writing bad reviews

PK Chong - 2015 - books.google.com
Violence. Revenge. And a long-standing rivalry. This sounds like the stuff of Medieval or
heroic literature but actually describes a dinner party at which Norman Mailer, the famed …

The place of book reviews in the professional literature

C Runnels - Journal of Field Archaeology, 1994 - JSTOR
… the field, have little, if any, regard for the importance and responsibility of writing book reviews.
… The responsibility of writing book reviews, however, is always an important one, and at all …

[PDF][PDF] Learning “scholarship as conversation” by writing book reviews

N Rowland, JA Knapp, H Fargo - Scholarship and practice of undergraduate …, 2019 - cur.org
… practices to transform the process of writing book reviews from an undervalued, lone activity
… In the end, writing book reviews with students is an opportunity for faculty and librarians to …

How to Write a Book Review–And Why You Should

M Heyd - Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… It is possible to build a nice personal library by writing book reviews. … The reasons for
writing media reviews are the same as those for writing book reviews: lifelong learning, resume …

Writing book reviews for the Journal of Range Management and Rangelands

DL Scarnecchia - Journal of range management, 2004 - BioOne
Effective, analytical reviews of recently published books inform readers of their essential
content, and evaluate and communicate the value of their content to professional disciplines …