黑暗与光明How to write a Book Report怎么写英文读书报告

2021年1月18日发(作者：五言绝句)
How to write a book report?
Book reports may be required by teachers who want to know
whether their students have read the books assigned and how well they
understand those books. If they are not required, students may as well
write one or two for themselves, for writing book reports helps students
to improve their reading comprehension and their ability to analyze and
evaluate books. Moreover, it is very good practice.
Generally speaking, a book report consists of the following three
main parts: information about the author and his times, a summary of the
book, and comments on it.
A brief account of the author’s life should be given together with a
description of his times. The latter should include the circumstances that
led to the writing of the book under discussion and the historical and
social background related to the content of the book. To make these
things clear, the writer perhaps needs to read some reference material,
such as biographies of the author and histories of the period described in
the book.
A summary should be self-contained, clear, and easy to understand.
Above all, it should be objective. Comments on and criticisms of the
book should not be mixed with the summary; they can be left to the third
part. The summary of a novel or a play is usually written in the present
tense, while that of nonfiction, in the tense of the original work: for