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Hello there, Brandon Maze White  . I don't think there is an easy answer for this question nor are there any hard and fast rule for review length. Allow me to focus on different types of reviews: 1. Reviewing WDC Authors: Keep your intended reviewee in mind; make your opinions as clear and concise as possible; don't drag on your points; and focus on delivering the message. Finding a review length that both you and your reviewee are comfortable with takes some practice. My suggestion is to first review something and then look at the key points of what you review. What are the key elements involved? From there, establish a template consisting of subsections perhaps because writing a detailed review in a whole chunk of words overwhelm your reviewee. Eventually, you will work out your own style and suitable length for yourself and your reviewee. 2. Book Reviews What you are asking right now are book reviews which is another ball game altogether. In this case, your audience changes. Are you writing a review to give books a critique or reviewing to give book recommendations? What do your audience want? Who are they? There are many resources and case studies in terms of book reviews and there are many types of different reviews out there. There are commercial reviews then there are literature reviews. I'm assuming that you may be looking into literature review where you are studying the elements of story-writing and also assuming that your intended audience are writers, then you can write your reviews longer than a commercial ones (which is probably 300 - 500 words for the small column in lifestyle section in the papers, a 2-page full print-full colour book review for detailed professional ones [book week] or for lifestyle magazines, only 50 - 80 words = 4 lines) The same applies for literature book review as I've mentioned in Section #1 (Reviewing WDC Authors): make your opinions as clear and concise as possible; don't drag on your points; and focus on delivering the message. I have not done a detailed book review, but I can share my template when I review for WDC authors and how I fill them up. Again, this is not a hard and fast rule. You will work out your own eventually. You can look around for really good reviews around WDC. Here is what I personally do and I'm still trying to improve it. My rating description is still evolving so bear with me on that.
Review of "Dreams Charging Toward Reality "  Hope that helps. |
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