Learning, Teaching And Assessment In Higher Education

Andrew Middleton considers what a Book Review would be like as a podcast. A review activity should encourage students to read and reflect upon the literature available to them and help them to develop a pool or collection of audio book reviews. In this way students are making a contribution not only to a resource used by their peers, but a resource that may be useful to those that follow in subsequent years. Here are some guiding principles for an audio book review. It should be, - short (less than 2 minutes) - provide information about the book and its stated aims - indicate the scope of the book - consider why it attracted the reviewer in the first place - provide one or two quotes - and comment on the style of the writer "This book review considers 'Writing for Broadcast Journalists' by Rick Thompson, published by Routledge in 2005. It is part of their Media Skills series and weighs in at 182 pages. Writing for Broadcast Journalists sets out to guide readers through the differences between written and s