Textbooks. Reference books. Specialised monographs. Trade books for the public. And many journals, magazines, and other publications include reviews of books on science. As well as helping readers choose books to obtain or consult, book reviews can inform readers by sharing content from the books. They also can provide useful feedback to authors and publishers and help guide future authors. Reviews of other media, such as journals and electronic resources, can serve similar functions. Regardless of whether a book or other item is reviewed, the principles are much the same. Thus, guidelines for writing book reviews apply in general to other reviews.

Book reviews at AuthorsMania.com both describes and evaluates the book. Among questions it may address are the following (Gastel, 1991): What is the goal of the book, and how well does the book accomplish it? From what context did the book emerge? What is the background of the authors or editors? What is the scope of the book, and how is the content organized? What main points does the book make? If the book has special features, what are they? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the book? How does the book compare with other books on the same topic or with previous editions of the book? Who would find the book valuable?

Normally, answering these questions entails reading the book thoroughly. For a reference work, however, sampling the content is more feasible and better reflects the intended use. If writers of AuthorsMania.com do take such an approach, they consider drawing their own skills in research design in determining how to proceed.

To facilitate writing, writers at AuthorsMania.com take notes as they read or mark passages of interest in the book. They write down ideas for points to make as they occur to us.

Although some journals feature structured book reviews, with standardised headings for specified types of content, writers of AuthorsMania.com choose how to organise the book review. One format that AuthorsMania Professionals do use is IMRAD (introduction, methods, results, and discussions) structure commonly used for scientific papers. In this format, the introduction presents an opening comment on the book, the results describes the book, and the discussion evaluates it. No methods section is used if we read the book from cover to cover. But if, for example, our writers systematically sampled content in a reference book, we would summarise our procedure in the methods.

Book reviews at AuthorsMania.com are not advertisements and do not gush with praise. Neither it nitpicks or ridicules. Rather, it has a reasoned tone. By presenting information about the book and drawing careful conclusions, AuthorsMania.com serves well the readers of our review.

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