How to Write a Book Report课件.ppt

How_to_Write_a_Book_Report课件.pptHow to Write a Book Report
Jan. 2011
What Is A Book Report?
Why Write A Book Report?
What to Be Included in A Book Report?
Where to Begin?
How to Make a (n) Summary/Analysis/Evaluation ?
How to Conduct Further Research?
How to Avoid Plagiarism
What Is A Book Report?
A book report: providing basic information about the book
A book review, going beyond the basics to evaluate and make more subjective claims about the text’s quality.
a research paper, which investigates a topic through a variety of sources and takes a position within a set of claims about that topic
Why Write A Book Report?
to prove that you pleted, and understood, the assigned
To enhance your ability to analyze the story and the characters
to add its reader’s knowledge base
What to Be Included in A Book Report?
Who? What? Where? When? How? Why?
Its category; its major plot, characters, thesis, and/or main idea; its style
Explain; Summarize; Analyze; Evaluate
Where to Begin?
Author: Who wrote it? What, if anything, do you know about the author?
Publication Information: When and where was it published, and by whom?
Genre: Are you reporting on a novel? A biography? A history?
Title: What does it plish for the book itself? What does it tell you about the book?
How to Make a (n) Summary/Analysis/Evaluation
Summary
You should go into enough detail to make clear that you’ve gone beyond reading someone else’s summary
You should make your summary concise, clear and easy to understand
You should use present tense for a novel or a play or a science fiction
How to Make a (n) Summary/Analysis/Evaluation
Plot Summary
Freytag’s Pyramid
How to Make a (n) Summary/Analysis/Evaluation
Exposition: gives the reader the basic information: the characters, setting, and basic conflict
Rising action: complicates the basic conflict, presenting the characters with obstacles to e and other secondary conflicts.
Climax: the dramatic, often exciting, point at which things begin to change for the story and the