Must have own copy or access to the book
Aristotles way by Edith hall
The Good Reviewer will represent the book (without lapsing into long-winded summaries) so the reader gets a sense of what the book is like whether the reviewer likes it or not. The good reviewer will also offer an interesting or revealing point of view from which the book can be perceived critically.
What is the task of a book review? There are at least five kinds of book reviewer, but only one pursues the real goal.
Layout
Put page references inside parentheses as plain figures; put them inside final punctuation; use ‘p.’ only when it is part of the normal grammar of a sentence. So:
Blogg says on p.21 or Blogg says (21) … or … as Blogg says (21), …
Please use the reduced form for reference: e.g. 239-67 not 239-267, 235-9 not 235-39; but 112-17 – leave the 1 in for teens.
Indent quotations that are longer than three lines in your document.
Normally, when quoting the book reviewed, put closing commas and periods inside any quote-marks. Otherwise, put punctuation outside quote marks, including the case where a page reference follows a quotation. Punctuation always goes outside the titles of parts, sections or chapters.
So ‘ … an invalid argument.’ But ‘ … an invalid argument’ (21).
For omissions in quotes, use space / three adjacent dots / space as in this sheet..