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Miao Yu Fall 2009 How to… Take thorough and careful notes as you read the book. Use Post-it flags to mark pages that contain important passages or quotes. Look through your notes and decide, based on the length of the book report, what is essential to include and what can be excluded? State the main point of the book or give a brief plot summary. How to… Outline the plot or main ideas in the book or for fiction describe the story and key dramatic points. Follow your outline as you write the report, making sure to balance the general and the specific. A good book report will both give an overview of the books significance and convey enough details to avoid abstraction. Summarize the overall significance of the book: What has this book contributed to the knowledge of the world? For fiction: What does this story tell us about the authors taking on lifes big questions? Hints Choose something you feel interested in. Choose ways to relay the subject to your life and how it can help you in the future. In that way you can tell yourself that this is not just a report, its also a way of telling people that this subject is helpful for me, and it would be helpful for them also. Always give qualified criticism about the book. This shows that you both understand the book and are willing to give some suggestions on it. Also try to find out if the author has been reviewed before and see what the general opinion of the author is. APA Format Yang, L. M., Xu, K. R. (1996). College English (Book 4). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Print out on a A4 paper Font: Times New Roman Size: 12 Citation: you need to put the person’s name, year of quotation, and specific page of the quotation in a bracket. “Please follow the APA style when you write the book report” (Yu, 2010, p. ?).  Structure An introduction of the author and historical background of the book writing (if applicable). A summary of the book Comments Evaluate the book according to your own inte