Affiliation:
1. steven e. gump – Office of International Programs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Abstract
Unimpressive books fail to make effective, distinctive, or otherwise substantive contributions. Yet their reviews can be useful to potential readers (as caveats), to publishers (as quality-control checks), to authors working on similar book projects (as models of what to avoid), and even to the reviewers themselves (as exercises for developing connoisseurship within a specific field). By articulating the implications and transferability of evaluative criteria, this essay explores the value and utility of such reviews.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Media Technology,Education