WRITING EFFECTIVE REVIEWS
Reviews usually accomplish two major things: 1.) They describe the event being reviewed (e.g., presenter, introducer, content of reading, atmosphere). 2.) They evaluate the event in terms of both content and presentation style–possibly also audience reaction.
PARTICULARS AND CRITERIA:
* Cover 2 full pages (about 600 words)
* Edit your prose. (Those with spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors will receive no credit.)
* Briefly outline or summarize the content of the presentation, using specific details.
* Include your evaluation (or possibly also your sense of the audience’s evaluation) not just at the end of the paper, but in the course of describing the presentation. Therefore, you will be able to show the complexity of your thinking.
* Show the complexity of your thinking.
* Your will receive 25 points ONLY if you have turned in 2 satisfactory reviews.
* See this for the opportunity it is.
HINTS:
* Prepare by finding out about the presenter and his or her work beforehand. But be careful not to use anyone else’s ideas / perceptions. (This is called plagiarism.)
* Take notes at the reading on the details–name and genre of works, names of presenters, etc. If you don’t know how to spell them, find out before you hand in your paper.
* Titles of short works are enclosed in quotation marks (e.g., short story and poem titles); names of books (including books containing any of these short works) are either italicized or underlined.
* The best essays will conclude with a reflection of the beginning paragraph or perception.
* Reviews have provocative titles. ("My Review" won’t work.)
* Read the examples on the web.