Book essay

essay guidelines is as followed

2. Identification of the Book: At the top of the first page of the actual essay (not on the
cover page) include a bibliographical entry for the book the essay is focusing on. Here are
the bibliographical entries that will be required for each essay presented in order of
assignment:
a. Patrick Spero. Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American
West, 1765-1776. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

3.Analysis: The analysis of the book consists of two parts. First, write a statement of theme for each bookby answering each of the following questions as each applies to the book the essay is focusing on:whois the book about; whatis the book about; wheredo the major events described in the book take place; and whendo the major events described in the book take place. Second, correctly identify the author’s thesis by locating it in the Prologue or Introduction of the book. Once you have located the correct thesis quote it in its entirety and cite the page number in parenthesis at the end of the quoted statement. Please Note: Failure to identify the correct thesis will result in a 50-point deductionoff your overall book essay. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE.4.Criticism: The critique of each book consists of providing an objective evaluation and an subjective evaluation of each book.a.Objective Evaluation: Look to see if the author of the book includes a bibliography and/or endnotes in their book. Does the author’s selection of source material inspire confidence in their work? Does the author seem well-informed based on your review of this material? Does the author’s thesis seem logical? Answer thesequestions in your essay and you will produce an objective evaluation of the book.b.Subjective Evaluation: What is your opinion of the book? Does the book seem like it will be interesting and enjoyable, or dull and boring? Would you
recommend to a friend or colleague who was not a student in this course? What about the book do you think you would like the most? What do you think you would like the least? Answerthese questions in your essay and you will produce a subjective evaluation of the book.5.Testing Conclusions: After completing the analysis and critique of the book, test your conclusions by locating at minimumtwo (2) published reviews of the book. Read each review and state whether or not the review was positive, negative, or neutral. Afterwards, indicate which of the two published reviews you thought was best and briefly explain why.6.The analysis, criticism, and testing conclusions make up the body of the book essay. In addition to the essay itself, students must also include a cover page and a works cited page. The cover page must include the students first and last name, the title of the course, the course identification numbers, and the date the final draft of the essay is due in the upper-right hand corner of the cover page. Additionally, each page of the book essay, with the exception of the cover sheet, must include the student’s last name and page number in the upper-right hand corner of the page. All book essays must use font style Times New Romanand font size 11. Themain body of all book essays must be double-spaced, but the information appearingon the coversheets and works cited page must be single-spaced. Samples modeling the correct format for both the cover page and works cited page will be provided to students during the semester.Please Note:Final Book Essay drafts that donot include all of these items, a correct coversheet, the student’s last name and page number in the upper-right hand corner of every page except for the coverpage, and a works cited page will not be accepted by the professor. THERE ARE NOEXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE.7.The works cited page will include complete bibliographical entries for the two published reviews used totest conclusions.Students must utilize the Hanging Indentionfor each item includedon the WorksCited page. Students who fail to do so will have points deducted from their overall book essay grade. THERE ARE NOEXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE.8.At the end of the semester, the four book essay grades will be averaged together into a final book essay grade,which will count for 50% of your overall course grade.Works Cited Page Guidelines:1.Each entry on the Works Cited page must include all of the following information inthe order presented:a.Author’s last name followed by a comma, then the author’s first name followed by a period.b.The title of the review in quotation marks followed by a comma;c.The title of the publication where the review appeared italicized;d.Followed by page numbers indicating where the review is located or date of publication.2.Each item must be listed alphabeticallyon the Works Cited pageby the author of the review’s last name.3.Each item listed on the Works Cited must utilize the Hanging Indention.4.Each item on the Works Cited page must be single-spaced, but separate each item by anadditionalspace.