1、Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,如何写读书报告,What Is A Book Report?,Why Write A Book Report?,What to
2、Be Included in A Book Report?,Where to Begin?,How to Make a(n)Summary/Analysis/Evaluation?,How to Conduct Further Research?,How to Avoid,Plagiarism,What Is A Book Report?,A book report:providing basic information about the book,A,book review,going beyond the basics to evaluate and make more subjecti
3、ve claims about the texts quality.,a,research paper,which investigates a topic through a variety of sources and takes a position within a set of claims about that topic,Why Write A Book Report?,to prove that you have completed,and understood,the assigned,To enhance your ability to analyze the story
4、and the characters,to add its readers knowledge base,What to Be Included in A Book Report?,Who?What?Where?When?How?Why?,Its category;its major plot,characters,thesis,and/or main idea;its style,Explain,;,Summarize;Analyze,;,Evaluate,Where to Begin?,Author:,Who wrote it?What,if anything,do you know ab
5、out the author?,Publication Information:,When and where was it published,and by whom?,Genre:,Are you reporting on a novel?A biography?A history?,Title:,What does it accomplish for the book itself?What does it tell you about the book?,How to Make a(n)Summary/Analysis/Evaluation,Summary,You should go
6、into enough detail to make clear that youve gone beyond reading someone elses summary,You should make your summary concise,clear and easy to understand,You should use present tense for a novel or a play or a science fiction,How to Make a(n)Summary/Analysis/Evaluation,Plot Summary,Freytags Pyramid,Ho
7、w to Make a(n)Summary/Analysis/Evaluation,Exposition:,gives the reader the basic information:the characters,setting,and basic conflict,Rising action:,complicates the basic conflict,presenting the characters with obstacles to overcome and other secondary conflicts.,Climax:,the dramatic,often exciting
8、point at which things begin to change for the story and the characters.,Falling action:,the resolution of the climaxs conflict.,Denouement,:,the ending of the story,How to Make a(n)Summary/Analysis/Evaluation,Analysis,What does the story tell us?How does the book tell its story or make its argument
9、What tools does it use?,Here,you may want to discuss themes,motifs,symbols,and other rhetorical devices the book uses,How to Make a(n)Summary/Analysis/Evaluation,Evaluation,What do you think of this book?What makes it importantworth writing a report on,or assigning you to report on?Would you recomm
10、end it,or assign it,to others?What are the first few things you would bring up for discussion with someone else?,the merits and demerits;the social/historical/literary significance,The structure of a book report,I.Introduction,II.Summary,III.Analysis,IV.Evaluation,How to Conduct Further Research?,Sc
11、holarly sources,are the bound journals in your library.They are often published by universities or by university presses.,Journalistic sources,include most newspapers and magazines with which youre familiar.They are published by for-profit corporations that accept advertising,and they cater to a wid
12、er and less specialized audience than do scholarly sources.,Popular sources,are usually self-published.Many blogs,term paper sharing websites,and internet sources fall into this category.,How to Conduct Further Research?,Databases,JSTOR-,西文过刊全文库,ProQuest Dissertations&Theses(PQDT)-,博硕士论文全文数据库(,ProQu
13、est,),Literature Resource Center-,文学资源中心,(Gale),Arts&Humanities Citation Index,(,1983-,),-,艺术与人文科学引文索引,万方数据资源系统的全文数字化期刊,中国期刊网期刊全文数据库,维普全文电子期刊,/,CNKI,(,中国知识资源总库,),How to Avoid,Plagiarism,Definition of,plagiarism,:using,borrowing,appropriating anothers work(words or ideas)in any way without acknowledg
14、ement or proper citation constitutes an instance of,plagiarism,When doing research,document with careful and precise notes,And careful citation will make your report a more useful document to both you and your reader,Citation,e.g.1,-“xxx”(writer page),用双引号;第一次原著引用。,新批评学者强调诗作为本体的存在,是封闭孤立、自给自足的客观物,一首诗
15、如同一个“语像”、“一幅程式化的画卷”,或者像一只“精致的翁”,“有重量,有体积,也有界定的边界”,(Vendler 4,),。,Citation,e.g.2,-“xxx”(89),用双引号,;,第二次引用只需页码,一般来说,引用原文,4,行及以上要另起一段,左边缩进,10,个字母,除对话外,不用双引号。,The following are some quotations from one of Bacons famous essays:,Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed a
16、nd digested;that is,some books are to be read only in parts;others to be read,but not curiously;and some few to be read wholly,and with diligence and attention.(217),Works Cited,e.g.,Vendler,Helen Hennessy.,Poets Thinking:Pope,Whitman,Dickinson,Yeats,.Cambridge:Harvard University Press,2004.,姓,名,.,书
17、名,(,斜体,).,出版城市:出版社,出版年份,.,e.g.Porte,Joel,and Saundra Morris eds.,The Cambridge Campanion to Ralph Waldo Emerson,.Shanghai:Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press,2004,说明:一个以上作者:从第二个人起后面姓名不颠倒;,主编者:姓名后加,ed(s),e.g.,Smith,David.“My University Days.”,College Composition,.John Powell,ed.NY:Harvard University Press,2003.18-29.,e.g.Price,Richard.“Interview with Larry Weissman.”25 June 1998,199.29.97.173/0698/price/interview.html,.,






