Convergence: Book Review Guidelines

General Directions

Book reviews are an important source of information for adult educators in that they provide a valuable synopsis and summary of important recent texts in the field. The timeline for completion of a review will be negotiated between the book review editor and the reviewer. While most book reviews are solicited by the editor, Convergence does accept unsolicited book reviews. The editor reserves the right to reject reviews.

Book reviews must provide a concise summary of the contents of the book and must address whether or not the book is a valuable contribution to the field. As such, reviews should evaluate the usefulness of the book as well as make mention of who would find the book useful. Reviews should be written in a manner that is accessible to a general readership rather than to an academic audience.

Style

Footnotes and references must be kept to a minimum. Convergence uses Commonwealth (Oxford UK) spellings-centre (not center), programme (not program), criticise (not criticize), co-operate (not cooperate), per cent (not percent), and so on. Numbers ten and under are spelt out; 11 and over use numerals. Include the title, author, place of publication, publisher and number of pages with your review.