How Town - Learn How To Do Things from our How To Community » Education http://howtown.com Learn how to do things Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:26:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How to Write a Book Report http://howtown.com/how-to-write-a-book-report http://howtown.com/how-to-write-a-book-report#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:10:50 +0000 admin http://howtown.com/?p=223 How to write a book report
Book report is simply a summary of a book. But this summary needs to be focused on the key topics or the main idea of the book. The entire summary also should be in a formal presentable form which may sounds complicated but we will discuss it in few easy steps.

Step#1

Thoroughly read the book and take notes of the topics that are emphasized and related to the main idea of the book. You can also use post-it flags to mark all the important pages and go back later to combine them.

Step#2

Before you start to write your report by gathering all your notes, ask yourself questions like why author wrote the book? What made you read the book? What are the key points of the book? What need to be excluded from the summary of the book? etc.

Step#3

Once you have all the answers of above, start with a brief outline of the book, followed by the main section of the book report which will include entire work from step 1 and step 2. Be sure not to go too in-depth (one page to elaborate a single topic) of any topic as well as not too brief (a complete topic in one sentence only).

Step#4

At the end, add a conclusion of the book summary you just wrote. The significance of the book, the potential contribution of the book, any negative aspects of it and about author’s opinion on the whole idea can be few things can be included in this last section of the book report.

]]> http://howtown.com/how-to-write-a-book-report/feed 0 How to write a bibliography http://howtown.com/how-to-write-a-bibliography http://howtown.com/how-to-write-a-bibliography#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:25:40 +0000 admin http://howtown.com/?p=220 Proper bibliography or reference section is essential for any formal research paper. There are many ways a bibliography can be created; APA, MLA etc. In this tutorial we will discuss how to write a bibliography using simple and standard method.

Step#1

Create a page at the end of the paper and name it “Bibliography”.

Step#2

List and sort all author’s last names and sources used in the writing alphabetically. Author’s last name will come first, followed by a comma and then the first name followed by a period.

If the used source is from a book, write the book title in italic font style, followed by a period. You may underline the book name too.

If the used source was from an article rather than a book, cite the name of the article inside quotation marks, in place of a book title. You also need to write the journal or magazine name including its volume number if the article was a part of a journal or magazine.

Step#3

Now you need to name the location where the article or the book was published, followed by a colon.

Step#4

Include the name of the published, followed by a comma.

Step#5

Finish the bibliography entry by adding the date of publication, followed by a period.

Add number to your bibliography pages when adding page number to your paper.

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