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Everything You Wanted to Know About Book Reviews
Everything You Wanted to Know About Book Reviews
If you've always wanted to know how to write and sell book reviews, this is the course for you. Book reviewer Niki Taylor teaches you the basics about book reviews, how to write them, and how to market them. At the end of this class, you'll be a book reviewer with knowledge of the best online reviews and books about book reviewing.
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Course Description

This course will teach you the best places to find book reviews online. It will also cover writing book reviews and marketing them to publications. The only requirements for the course are a love of reading and decent writing skills. Thanks to the popularity of the Internet and electronic books, book reviewers are needed more than ever before. So it's good skill to have if you want to be a writer, and even if you don't want to be a professional writer, learn how to write what you want to say about your favorite book, and wow them on Amazon.com reader reviews or in your book clubs. Remember book reviewers often get free books. The instructor Niki Taylor has degrees in English and Library Science and is a freelance writer/book reviewer who has written reviews for websites and magazines. You can work at your own pace with this course. There's no set class time. Let her take you from reader to reviewer.

Course Lessons

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What Is a Book Review?

The definition of a book review, a sample review, and how it helps people

Where are Book Reviews Found?

The types of media that print book reviews and how they get them

How to Write a Book Review

The synopsis, the assessment, the standards to use

Dorothy Parker: Famous Book Reviewer

Biography of well-known reviewer

Markets for Book Reviews

Where to find markets to publish your reviews? Paying or Nonpaying?

Optional Certificates Awarded

  1. Certificate of Attendance
  2. Certificate of Class Participation
  3. Certificate of Appreciation
  4. Certificate of Merit
  5. Certificate of Outstanding Achievement
  6. Certificate of Academic Excellence
Certificates may be awarded by the instructor at his/her own discretion and are based on student merit. To save your award and have a hard-copy delivered, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and delivery of the award, as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Portfolio Service that documents your achievements online. Official awards have a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award (great for employers to verify your achievement).
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Course Title : Everything You Wanted to Know About Book Reviews
CEU Value :

(Continuing Education Units)

Course Number : 3830
Course Type : Professional Development
Course URL :

bookreviews.onlineclasses.com

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Duration : Continuous: Enroll Anytime!
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment. This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.

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