Although writing short story book reports is not that complicated, your awareness of some major rules will make your work much easier. If you have experience of making some other types of book reports like biography book reports or creative book reports, you definitely can use it.

Yet, you should keep in mind one significant peculiarity of your assignment. You need to discuss a short story. It is a separate genre or literature, which means writing a short story book report will also differ from preparing a typical report.

Use these simple strategies for making good short story book reports.

Choose a topic carefully

First, you need to decide on a good short story. It should be 10-22 pages long. Make sure that you really like the story and you are interested in it; otherwise, work on your short story book report will not be that funny and exciting.

Reading

Read the story several times. Make notes while reading. Mark pages that you think contain important info or you want to use a quotation from this page in your short story book report.

Writing your short story book report

We strongly recommend you to make an outline before writing the final draft of your short story book report. Highlight all main ideas, add necessary details, and check your outline. This is what your outline and short story book report should include:

A few words about the author, his/her work, some background information;
Summarize the main events of the story;
Start analyzing some specific elements of a short story: the main themes, author’s main goal, literature devices, etc.
Conclude the short story book report with your overall impressions from the story, some recommendations, etc.

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