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Writing Strategy: Guidelines for Writing a Comprehensive Literary Review Essay (p.104) When writing a review essay for a literary work, aim to achieve two main objectives: briefly summarize the book’s content and critically evaluate its quality. Keep the book summary brief—no more than one-third of your essay. Focus on discussing the key arguments, themes, and ideas of the book, using YOUR OWN WORDS primarily, though you can include some direct quotes with page numbers as references. The core of your essay should be a critique of the book, where you offer your personal insights, reactions, and evaluations. This critique doesn’t necessarily have to be negative; it should, however, be well-supported and justified, showing your ability to understand and assess the author’s arguments and conclusions. To help you structure your critique effectively, consider the following guidelines: Guide for Analyzing a Literary Work 1. Overall Opinion State your overall impression of the literary work and explain how you formed this opinion. Reflect on your initial expectations, assess whether they were met, and discuss your reactions to the narrative. 2. Central Theme Identify and summarize the central message or theme of the work in your own words, discussing how it is introduced and developed throughout the text. 3. Author’s Aims Evaluate the author's objectives and how effectively they are achieved, especially through the structure and organization of the work. 4. Presentation and Support Analyze how the author presents and supports main points or themes, noting any assumptions that lie behind these points. 5. Literary Devices and Evidence Review how the author uses literary devices to support themes or arguments, and whether these connections are clear and logical. 6. Conclusions Consider the conclusions the author reaches and how clearly they are expressed. Assess how these conclusions are derived from the themes and structure of the work. 154 I Reading & Writing Strategies