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Finding Facts, Reviews, and More
Finding Book Reviews
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Scholarly and popular reviews
As is the case with articles in scholarly and popular magazines and journals,
there are differences between scholarly and popular book reviews. The easiest
way to tell which is which is to look at where it's published or at who wrote
it:
- Popular reviews are usually published in popular magazines like Time
or People. They are usually brief (one page or less), and they are
generally written by someone who only has a basic knowledge of
the subject field for which the book was written. They often provide a very
general summary of the book with an equally general positive or negative rating
of it.
- Scholarly reviews are usually published in scholarly journals like
The Journal of American History. They tend to be at least two pages
long or longer, and they are written by experts in the same field as that
for which the book was written. They provide not only a summary of the book
but also information about how the book fits into the general scholarship
of the field.
If you are looking for a book review as a required source for an assignment,
be sure to ask which kind of review your instructor expects you to use: popular
or scholarly.
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