Book review
A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit.[1]
A book review may be a
Some journals are devoted to book reviews, and reviews are indexed in databases such as the Book Review Index and Kirkus Reviews; but many more book reviews can be found in newspaper and scholarly databases such as Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index , and dscipline-specific databases.
History
Photios I of Constantinople has been called "the inventor of the book review" for his work, Bibliotheca.[3]
Types of reviews
Academic reviews
Academic reviews are both a form of academic service and a contribution to the academic literature.[4] They are frequently published as a section or part of academic journals.[5] They help the profession understand what has been happening in their profession, and work on the emerging intellectual challenges of their field.[4] However, not all academics are incentivized to take on the work required in a book review, because they are often not rewarded for that work.[4] Book reviews can be used to predict which monographs are likely to have subsequent citations.[5]
Newspaper and magazine reviews
Newspaper reviews became prominent in the 18h century, as a form of reader responses[6]
In academic criticism, popular book reviews in newspapers and magazine reviews are often used to evaluate the relative audience and impact of books during a period.[7]
See also
- Amazon.com controversies
- Australian Book Review
- BookBrowse
- Booklist
- The Book Club Bible
- Claremont Review of Books
- Kirkus Reviews
- Library Journal
- Literary criticism
- London Review of Books
- National Book Critics Circle
- The New York Review of Books
- Publishers Weekly
- Self-Publishing Review
- Shelf Awareness
References
- ^ Princeton (2011). "Book reviews". Scholarly definition document. Princeton. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
- ^ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2011). "Book reviews". Scholarly definition document. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Archived from the original on September 10, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
- ISBN 0-19-872145-5.
- ^ ISSN 0093-4690.
- ^ ISSN 1588-2861.
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Further reading
- Chen, C. C. (1976), Biomedical, Scientific and Technical Book Reviewing, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ.
- Ingram, Helen M.; Mills, Penny B. (1989). "Reviewing the Book Reviews". PS: Political Science and Politics. 22 (3): 627. JSTOR 419632.
- Katz, Bill (1985). "The Sunny Book Review". Technical Services Quarterly. 3 (1–2): 17–25. .
- Lindholm-Romantschuk, Y. (1998). Scholarly book reviewing in the social sciences and humanities. The flow of ideas within and among disciplines. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
- Miranda, E. O. (1996), "On book reviewing", Journal of Educational Thought, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 191–202.
- Motta-Roth, D. (1998), "Discourse analysis and academic book reviews: a study of text and disciplinary cultures", in Fortanet, I. (Ed), Genre Studies in English for Academic Purposes, Universitat Jaume, Castelló de la Plana, pp. 29–58.
- Nicolaisen, J. (2002a). "Structure-based interpretation of scholarly book reviews: a new research technique". Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science. pp. 123–135. Archived from the original on Aug 18, 2005.
- Nicolaisen, Jeppe (2002). "The scholarliness of published peer reviews: A bibliometric study of book reviews in selected social science fields". Research Evaluation. 11 (3): 129–140. .
- Nielsen, Sandro (2009). "2. Reviewing printed and electronic dictionaries: A theoretical and practical framework". Lexicography in the 21st Century. Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice. Vol. 12. pp. 23–41. ISBN 978-90-272-2336-4.
- Novick, Peter (1988). That Noble Dream. S2CID 158050677.
- Rampola, Mary Lynn (2010). "Critiques and book reviews", A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, Sixth Edition, pp. 26–28.
- Riley, L. E. & Spreitzer, E. A. (1970), "Book reviewing in the social sciences", The American Sociologist, Vol. 5 (November), pp. 358–363.
- Sabosik, Patricia E. (1988). "Scholarly reviewing and the role of choice in the postpublication review process". Book Research Quarterly. 4 (2): 10–18. S2CID 144380238.
- Sarton, G. (1960). "Notes on the Reviewing of Learned Books". Science. 131 (3408): 1182–1187. PMID 17773924.
- Schubert, A.; Zsindely, S.; Telcs, A.; Braun, T. (1984). "Quantitative analysis of a visible tip of the peer review iceberg: Book reviews in chemistry". Scientometrics. 6 (6): 433–443. S2CID 32648183.
- Snizek, W. E. & Fuhrman, E. R. (1979), "Some factors affecting the evaluative content of book reviews in sociology", The American Sociologist, Vol. 14 (May), pp. 108–114.
- Spink, Amanda; Robins, David; Schamber, Linda (1998). "Use of scholarly book reviews: Implications for electronic publishing and scholarly communication". Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 49 (4): 364–374. .
- Zuccala, Alesia; Van Leeuwen, Thed (2011). "Book reviews in humanities research evaluations". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62 (10): 1979–1991. S2CID 33669460.
External links
- "Book reviews" at The Writing Center - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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