Class Description: This course will teach you the best places to find book reviews online. It will also cover writing book reviews and marketing them to publications. The only requirements for the course are a love of reading and decent writing skills. Thanks to the popularity of the Internet and electronic books, book reviewers are needed more than ever before. So it's good skill to have if you want to be a writer, and even if you don't want to be a professional writer, learn how to write what you want to say about your favorite book, and wow them on Amazon.com reader reviews or in your book clubs. Remember book reviewers often get free books. The instructor Niki Taylor has degrees in English and Library Science and is a freelance writer/book reviewer who has written reviews for websites and magazines. You can work at your own pace with this course. There's no set class time. Let her take you from reader to reviewer.
Lesson 1: What Is a Book Review?The definition of a book review, a sample review, and how it helps people | Lesson 2: Where are Book Reviews Found?The types of media that print book reviews and how they get them
| Lesson 3: How to Write a Book ReviewThe synopsis, the assessment, the standards to use | Lesson 4: Dorothy Parker: Famous Book ReviewerBiography of well-known reviewer | Lesson 5: Markets for Book ReviewsWhere to find markets to publish your reviews? Paying or Nonpaying? |
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