Book is Night by Elie Wiesel
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Book Report
I am providing a short guide, meant to help you organize your paper.
1) Use complete sentences.
2) Your paper should be written in your [academic/professional] voice; it should NOT just be a bunch of answers to questions. (I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. IF YOU JUST WRITE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS YOU SEE BELOW, I WILL DEDUCT POINTS)
3) You are writing this paper for an audience that has NOT studied American History. Someone who hasn’t taken this course should be able to understand your paper.
4) PLEASE proofread your paper, OR let a text-to-speech program read it to you. PLEASE proofread.
YOUR PAPER SHOULD BE ORGANIZED AS FOLLOWS:
Paragraph I: Introduction
A. Title and Author of the book
B. When was the book written?
C. Why did you choose this book?
D. General synopsis (1-2) Sentences
Paragraph II: Overview/Summary
A: What issue, or set of issues, is the author attempting to address?
B. How does the author set up his or her argument? In other words, is it placed in some kind of historical context explicitly, or is the historical context worked in throughout the work?
C. What are the key points of the argument? In other words how does the author move from one point to another, and what does he or she consider important?
Paragraph III: Critique
A. Is the author’s argument convincingthat is, do you come away from the book with new knowledge about a problem and its possible solution?
B. Are there parts of the argument that seem to be missing?
C. If you were asked to write this book, would you go about it in the same way as the author had done or would you do something differently? (Essentially, this is a question about your overall impression of the book.)
Paragraph IV: Conclusion
A. Restate the main points of this review.
B. How has this assignment helped you better understand the concepts discussed in class?
