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A book report (or book review
Book review

A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. It is often carried out in periodicals, as school work, or online....
) is an exposition
Expository writing

Expository writing is a type of writing, the purpose of which is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader. Expository text is meant to ?posit? information and is the most frequently used type of writing by students in colleges and universities....
 giving a short summary of a book and a reaction to it. While it includes some details, a book report is usually tailored to its readers. Emphasis usually on a whole falls on aspects of the book related to the subject matter seen in an academic group of studies.

reports usually follow a set format but may vary in length and complexity depending on the academic level at which they are set and the importance of the individual assignment.






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A book report (or book review
Book review

A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. It is often carried out in periodicals, as school work, or online....
) is an exposition
Expository writing

Expository writing is a type of writing, the purpose of which is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader. Expository text is meant to ?posit? information and is the most frequently used type of writing by students in colleges and universities....
 giving a short summary of a book and a reaction to it. While it includes some details, a book report is usually tailored to its readers. Emphasis usually on a whole falls on aspects of the book related to the subject matter seen in an academic group of studies.

Format

Book reports usually follow a set format but may vary in length and complexity depending on the academic level at which they are set and the importance of the individual assignment. They are commonly assigned in primary and secondary schools.

Time required

The time required for book report research and writing may vary from one to several weeks depending on the number of pages of the book to read and the complexity required by the teacher. It should be noted however that the term (report vs. review), the length, and the time commitment may vary widely as book reports are commonly used to assess reading comprehension and writing skill at a particular point in time and so are in no way standardized.

See also

  • Non-fiction
    Non-fiction

    Non-fiction is an document or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question....
  • Fiction
    Fiction

    Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
  • Expository writing
    Expository writing

    Expository writing is a type of writing, the purpose of which is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader. Expository text is meant to ?posit? information and is the most frequently used type of writing by students in colleges and universities....
  • Academic writing
    Academic writing

    In academia, writing and academic publishing is conducted in several sets of forms and genres. This is a list of genres of academic writing. It is a short summary of the full spectrum of critical & academic writing....
  • The essay as a pedagogical tool
    Essay

    An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal Perspective . Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author....
  • Creative writing
    Creative writing

    Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional writing, journalistic, Academic writing, and technical forms of literature....
  • Coursework
    Coursework

    Coursework is the name for work carried out by students at university or secondary school / middle school / high school....
  • Book review
    Book review

    A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on content, style, and merit. It is often carried out in periodicals, as school work, or online....
  • Close reading
    Close reading

    In literary criticism, close reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read....
  • Explication de Texte
    Explication de Texte

    Explication de Texte is a France Formalism method of literary analysis that allows for limited reader response, similar to close reading in the English-speaking literary tradition....
    , a formal French format


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  • Learn how to plan, organize, develop and present an effective book report.
  • Get book report ideas and book summaries.