Family Man Fatherhood Housework and Gender Equity

Critical Book Review Assignment

Your book review will be about 3-4 pages long. It should inform readers about the content of the book, and provide an evaluation that gives your judgment of the book's quality. Your intent is to tell potential book readers if a particular book is worth reading. They want to know what the book is about, its strengths and weaknesses and they want to gain this information as easily and quickly as possible. Use the following points to guide the review.

1. Title of Review - should provide the complete bibliographic reference for the book and note that the essay is a review.

2. Introduction of Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity Research Paper should state an overview of the book that both incorporates a summary and a sense of your general judgment of the book. But it has to be persuasive to entice people to want to read your review and so has to be written interestingly.

Summary of Family Man: Fatherhood , Housework, and Gender Equity

1. a description of the author's thesis in your own words. What is the author trying to do? What are the author's aims? What is the book about?
2. you should also discuss why the author thinks those aims are important? Why does the author want readers to get the information or viewpoint presented in the book?
3. how does the author attempt to achieve his /her objectives and aims. How are the author's main points presented and supported? How was the research done? What methods were used to collect information and data? How long did the research take? Where it was done? How was the sample selected? How large was it?
4. the summary should consist of a discussion and highlights of the major arguments, ideas, concepts, themes and characteristics of the book. You may use direct quotes from the book but they should not be the bulk of the summary (Be sure to always use proper citation when you quote. include he page number). You have to describe and explain the material IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Your goal is an essay in your own words.

Evaluation of the book

This is where you state your overall opinion of the book and the basis of this opinion? Tell the reader whether you think the author successfully achieved his /her aims and how you arrived at this judgment. How did you react to the book? In general, you want to be balanced and note its strengths and weaknesses. What did you like? Why did you like it? What did you not like and why not? You might devote a paragraph to each strength and weakness so try to focus on important and nontrivial issues. In each paragraph you might note one quality or lack of quality and then go on to amplify on why you like or dislike it. Regardless of how negative or positive your critique is, you need to justify and support your position. Among some of the questions you might use to guide your evaluation;

1. what did you expect to learn when you picked up the book? To what extent - and how effectively - were your expectations met? Did you wish you engage with the author in a discussion or disagreement? Amplify upon and explain your reactions.
2. does the author effectively draw claims from his /her material and evidence? Are connections between claims and evidence made clearly and logically? Do the author's conclusions follow from his/her thesis and material?
3. does the author's presentation seem fair and accurate? Is the interpretation biased? Can you detect any distortion, exaggeration, or diminishing of material? If so, for what purpose might this have been done, and what effect does it have on the overall presentation?
4. were there methodological issues dealing with ethics, sampling, reliability, and validity raised by the research. Was the research well done?

5). Conclusion in which you summarize your argument and perhaps state whether you would recommend this book to others.