Writing A Book Report Essay

Academic writing is a large part of a student’s life in any subject. There is no subject that a student does not have a form of academic writing. It is one of the more important things that a student does for their class. A simple but important form of academic writing is a book report. Students have to start doing book reports in the third grade and do them through high school. Book reports are one of the most dreaded assignments of a student in elementary and the beginning of junior high. Students find them complicated and hard because they do not want to think as hard as they should about a certain book. Teachers are really strict about book reports because they show if a student really read a book or not, and they show if a student …show more content…
Students need to always include genre in the book report, because that is an important part of every aspect of a book.(“Writing a Book Report”) There are three effective types of book reports, and those are plot summaries, character analyses, and theme analysis.

A plot summary is not just stating the actions, and order of events in a story. A student needs to tell their opinion about the happenings and why that is their opinion. (“Writing a Book Report”) Plenty of examples from the book need to be used to support a student’s opinion. The examples need to be very detailed and they need to be accurate. Because if you put in false details then your summary is not correct. People think that a Plot Summary is like a synopsis or a black liner and it is not. It does not have the same structure or go in complete chronological order like a synopsis, and it does not ask a bunch of questions like a black liner. (Kilpack) A plot summary should not be very long it should be roughly be about 100 to 300 words. It is not very long because it really is just a summary of the happenings of a story and why you think it was a good plot or not. …show more content…
The theme of a story is what gives the author control over his perceptions about life. (Davis) Finding the theme is one of the hardest things to do on writing a theme analysis. To find the theme using the easiest method is to look for topics that keep showing up again in the story. (Davis) Using the type of characters and plot are two of the best ways to find the theme also. There are many ways to find the theme sometimes it shoots itself out at you and sometimes you have to go in depth and look for it. Sometimes you have to identify multiple themes, if it is a novel sometimes the story has minor themes that the author wants you to learn.