Reviewing the article

Questions 1 - 5:

1. What is the title of the article? Who is the author? Where and when did the article appear?

The article is called "The Endangered Scholarly Book Review" and was written by Lynn Worsham in April 2012. It was published on the website of "The Chronicle (of higher education)".


2. What are the authors credentials?

The author is a professor of English at Idaho State University and an Editor for JAC (A Journal of Rethoric, Culture and Politics).


3. What is the nature of the article?

It's a newspaper article.


4. What is the theme of the article?

The theme could be described as "the scholarly book review and its current situation".


5. Why did the author write it?

The author sees a decline in the book review section of a lot of scholarly journals. With this article she points out the importance of saving these kinds of reviews from extinction.