Assignment task:
Complete Unit 6, Task 4 (Swales & Feak, pp. 233-236). For this quiz, you'll need to read the excerpt on pp. 233-235 and answer a few of the questions on pp. 235-236.
Q1. Does the review give the impression of being fair? Why or why not?
Q2. How serious do the cited weaknesses seem to be? How important do you think it is to cite weaknesses in what is by and large a good book? Is anything gained by doing so? (Consider "positioning," which was described in Unit One.)
Q3. The review consists of five short paragraphs. Explain the purpose of each.
Q4. Identify a sentence that contains positive evaluation and a sentence that contains negative evaluation. Where do the criticisms appear? In the beginning, middle, end, or throughout?
Q5. The author does not use I, but instead focuses on an imagined reader (see sentence 11) or readership (sentence 14). What is the effect of this on readers? Could she have used I? Why or why not?