{"id":10434,"date":"2023-03-24T20:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-review-of-anne-marie-oomen-and-linda-nemec-foster-the-lake-michigan-mermaid-2018\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T20:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T20:28:38","slug":"book-review-of-anne-marie-oomen-and-linda-nemec-foster-the-lake-michigan-mermaid-2018","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-review-of-anne-marie-oomen-and-linda-nemec-foster-the-lake-michigan-mermaid-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster, The Lake Michigan Mermaid (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>RETRIEVED FROM RUBRIC:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Here, as would any reviewer, you\u2019ll want to focus on the collection as a whole. You will want to write<\/p>\n<div>about how the collection is set up and discuss trends you see in the work in the attempt to give a fair\n<\/div>\n<div>assessment of what makes this collection work. You won\u2019t, however, be narrowly focusing on one (or\n<\/div>\n<div>two) poems; instead you\u2019ll want to quote and paraphrase from VARIOUS poems in the collection as a m<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">eans of providing support for your argument. You\u2019ll want to organize your thoughts along the lines of at<\/span><\/div>\n<div>least 3-4 different topics (topic sentences), and remember as a reviewer, you are making assessments,\n<\/div>\n<div>arguments. Be sure to take a clear stand on those arguments. Again<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">, what are the criteria you\u2019ll be using to make your arguments? Those criteria form<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">your topic sentences, and your argument is your assessment as to what is working (or not) in that<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">particular area.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Students tend to want to take shortcuts with this assignment and pass off 3-4 poems as proof that they\u2019ve&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">read the entire collection. As noted above, you want to bring in MANY poems as part of your<\/span><\/div>\n<div>analysis. You want to discuss trends\/patterns\/overriding characteristics in the work as a whole. Is this an&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">author\/collection you recommend? Why\/why not?<\/span><\/div>\n<div>This review should be 7 pages at a minimum, and you should use MLA style<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">(9th edition) to document.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because this is a review, rather than a WC page, you should embed the book information (Author info.\n<\/div>\n<div>Title Info. Publisher, Year. # pages) immediately after your review title and before your first paragraph<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RETRIEVED FROM RUBRIC:&nbsp; Here, as would any reviewer, you\u2019ll want to focus on the collection as a whole. You will want to write about how the collection is set up and discuss trends you see in the work in the attempt to give a fair assessment of what makes this collection work. 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