Book review is a critical article. The author takes "book" as the object, and demonstrates his academic accomplishment and professional knowledge level by commenting and introducing the contents in the book. Book review is an important style and an indispensable part of academic journals.

What is a book review?

As the name implies, book review is an article that comments on a book and introduces it to others after reading it. The object of book review is "book", and the author of book review needs to seek truth from facts and wisely analyze the form and content of the books he reads.

This paper discusses the ideological, academic, intellectual and artistic nature of a book created by the author, and builds a bridge for information exchange among the author, readers and publishers. Book review is not prose, nor novel, nor poetry. It is an applied style and an important writing style.

At present, the common forms of book review are as follows:

1, the text form of this kind of book review is no different from the text of the paper, with tables of contents and page numbers, and no advertisements. This form of recognition is relatively high and is welcomed by the majority of authors.

2. Advertising form This kind of book review is published in the second and third cover positions, or black and white pages, advertising inserts, etc. There are two similarities between the above two forms of book review: the author's unit, identity and specialty are not limited to receiving manuscripts; Book reviews, like the text, can link to the theme.