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ACL Review Tools
Reviewing (Instructions) Rating System BayViews - Review's Index
To be used no later than 10AM on Thursday before the meeting (1 day before the meeting). Submitted reviews will be printed and distributed at meeting. (UPDATED 11-2011)
For help in writing ACL reviews, please consult:
- Guide for Bayviews Reviewers (UPDATED Feb 2013) (MS Word)
Replaces - Guide for Bayviews Reviewers (Sept 2012) , (Sept 2010) , and (April 2007) (MS Word)
Which previously replaced - Reviewers Guide, Style Guide, and Grammar and Usage Guide - Sample Reviews from the first two pages of the October, 1999 issue (Vol. 10 No. 2).
- An Exhortation to Our Reviewers for Pith
by Erica Siskind & Elizabeth Overmyer, Copy Editors (11/09):
If you would like to review for BayViews, you must first become an ACL member! ( application form ). Questions: contact the Book Review chair ( see Contacts page).
The Rating System in BayViews (revised in 1999)
- Outstanding:
Outstanding in its presentation of the genre, including style, consistency, design, accuracy, and consideration of audience. Books receiving this rating will be considered for the annual Distinguished Books List. - Additional:
Competent, but may be excelled in its field by other books. A useful addition to most library collections. Reviewers who wish to distinguish books at the high or low range of the broad Additional category may use the terms High Additional or Low Additional to so designate. - Unsatisfactory:
Contains so many weaknesses in style, content, and/or book design that is not recommended for general library purchase.
BayViews, a journal of book reviews and opinions with a western perspective, is published 11 times a year.
For those receiving paper or electronic editions, Titles reviewed are indexed volume below. ACL Members have access to archived electronic editions of BayViews, stored on the ACL Yahoo group.
- Volume 15 - 2006/2007
- Volume 16 - 2007/2008
- Volume 17 - 2008/2009
- Volume 18 - 2009/2010
- Volume 19 - 2010/2011
- Volume 20 - 2011/2012
- Volume 21 - 2012/2013
Email Submission Form (MS Word 2000 file) - UPDATED April 2011.
and Instructions (MS Word 2000 file), (UPDATED Sept 2010)
for electronic submission of reviews to Nancy Pino.
Print only Submission Form - htm or RichText File (updated Nov 2009).
Please use this form only if you do not intend to submit your review electronically and/or do not have MS Word compatible software.