425 Tier III option one(ta da!)

425 assignment option one: Review essay. In this option, you will read 3-5 books about a city of your choice, then write what we call a review essay. In a review essay, you discuss the approach each author took to the city in question, describe how he/she wrote about it, and then identify the strengths and weaknesses of the book(this is subjective and your call as reviewer). You can see a sample in the New York Review of Books(nybooks.com)…the writers there review several books at a time on a common theme and kind of pioneered the genre. The caveat on this one is that you need to choose a city on which lots of people have written books, for example London, Paris, Jerusalem, Prague. I don’t want anyone doing New York, because we will have covered it well, but you can do Paris, because there are so many good recent books on it. You might want to run by me the city you choose, since I can tell you whether it’s doable or not in terms of how much good, interesting English-language material you will find.