CRITICAL BOOK REPORT
RECEPTIVE WRITTEN LANGUAGE SKILL
ARRANGED BY:
Filza Irawan Hasibuan (2211121006)
Niwana Adegan (2213121022)
Kezia Aurellia (2213121023)
CLASS ; ENGLISH EDUCATION 21 C
LECTURER : Yuni Khairina, S. Pd., M. Hum.
MEDAN STATE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ART
2021/2022
PREFACE
Special thanks to the Almighty God for His bless and grace for us, so we can finish the
critical book report with the tittle “Advanced English Reading and Comprehension “. Thanks to
Ma’am Yuni Khairina as the Receptive Written Language Skill lecturer, for who always help her
students and give a lot of useful knowledge. It is one of the required assignments in Receptive
Written Skill subject. It is composed of the explanation of the reading and comprehension with the
strategies in English. This is not a perfect model, so we expect the critic and suggestion in order
to make it better. Hopefully, this book report can be used as a reference to learn about the reading
and comprehension in English.
Medan, 15th September 2021
Author
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TABLE OF CONTENT
PREFACE ......................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
TABLE OF CONTENT .................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY .......................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF CBR .............................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
2.1 THE PURPOSE OF WRITING CBR .............................................................................. 1
3.1 ACTIVITY PROCEDURE OF CBR ............................................................................... 1
CHAPTER II IDENTITY OF THE BOOK .................................................................................... 4
CHAPTER III ................................................................................................................................. 4
BOOK SUMMARY........................................................................................................................ 4
4.1. STRENGTHS OF THE BOOK........................................................................................ 9
4.2. WEAKNESSES OF THE BOOK .................................................................................... 9
CHAPTER V ................................................................................................................................ 10
CLOSING ..................................................................................................................................... 10
5.1. CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................. 10
5.2. SUGGESTION ............................................................................................................... 10
Reference………………………………………………………………………………………11
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CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE CBR
CBR (Critical Book Report) is one of six KKNI’s tasks which must be done by college
students at State University of Medan (UNIMED). CBR is very useful as a tool that can be
used to critize or compare the book that are reviewed.. Students should know the strength and
weakness of the book being reviewed and try to give constructive feedback of it. In this study,
I criticized one book.
2.1 THE PURPOSE OF WRITING CBR
This critical book report aims:
a) To critize the contents of the book.
b) To criticize and compare two different books.
3.1 ACTIVITY PROCEDURE OF CBR
a) Choose one assignment model.
b) Doing critical book report by writing about the components of the book.
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CHAPTER II
IDENTITY OF THE BOOK
1.1 Introduction
The Main Book The Comparison Book
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1.2 Identity of the book
Main Book
Book Title : Practice Makes Perfect - Advanced English Reading and Comprehension
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Author : Diane Engelhardt
Edition :I
Publication Year : 2013/07
Publication City : United States
Pages : 255
No ISBN : 978-0-07-179887-7
Comparison Book
Book Title : Reading in English : for students as second language
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Author : Danielson Dorothy
Edition : 2nd
Publication Year : 1980
Publication City : United States
Pages : 242
No ISBN : 9780137534425
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CHAPTER III
BOOK SUMMARY
2.1 Summary of the book
(Lesson 1 Ecotourism: Another Way To See The World)
In this lesson, we will discuss about how ecotourism growth by years and what is actually
the principles and challenges of ecotourism. The reading strategies used in this chapter is making
us picked some point word or main ideas each paragraphs then jot down important details and
supporting statements under each heading. By using this reading strategies, we kindly found out
how to summarizing each text by just practicing it much.
(Lesson 2 The Human Genome Project: Writing The Book of Life)
In this lesson, we will swam deeply into the topic, "the human genome project" where we
gonna know 'what is actually genome', 'how many chromosomes does one human cell contain',
until 'where do genes actually come from?'. By knowing the historical background, What is the
Medical Benefits, How was the Ethical, Legal and the Social Issues of Genome, also knowing
How The Genomic Era will take a part in the future, we're going to realize that science is not as
simple as we thought. The reading strategies we used is looking forward for some main ideas
while we also going to search for details or supporting statements. In other way, supporting
sentences could provide as the little picture that they support, prove or develop the main idea we
found.
(Lesson 3 Near-death Experience: Fact or Fantasy? )
We rarely concerned about how do we get death someday. I believe everyone does thought
about it once in a whole time they lived at least. So here we are, in this chapter, talking about the
experience of getting near to death. Is it real, or... just some story that could makes us giggled
and entertained? The phenomenon of NDEs goes as far back as ancient Greece and Rome but it's
only since that these rare experience become the subject of scientific research. We're going to use
the reading strategies where we have to organize information to create chart with headings to
represent the main idea. it help us to save time as we could just write it on the box we made.
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(Lesson 4 Genetically Modified Organisms: Breadbasket or Pandora's Box?)
In this lesson we could discuss much about the question we rarely think about. Like, 'What if
plants and animals could deliver vaccines and pharmaceuticals in addition to vital nutrients?
Are these food just the product someone's wild imagination or can biotechnology create tastier,
more appealing, and more nutritious food?'. We have ever thought about that kind of things at
least once, but, how was the answer? do we really ever find the answer?. In this chapter, we will
discuss deeply into this topic, knowing that food production is just not as simple as our thoughts.
The reading strategies we used is to summarize a text, particularly one that is long and contains
lots of facts and details. We need to sort the differences between essential details and
nonessential details while doing the reading strategies.
(Lesson 5 Men and Women: Long Live the Difference)
A bit sensitives, this chapter will brings you to a non-ended-debate-of-all-time by bringing
up the genders as a matters. Everyone was ever does thinking about egoistic question like, 'Who
has a greater chance of becoming blind?'. It's... funny, but in fact, everyone at least was ever
think about it. Men and Women have been regarded troughout human history as opposites, so
that we could make it clear by learning it deeply in this lesson. The reading strategies we used is
outlining the differences between men and women in a following charts. This way of reading
strategies could help the readers to comprehending the topics we talked about in this lesson
(Lesson 6 Electric Cars Greener, Cleaner Driving)
In this lesson, we know that cars represent freedom, power and status. Most people who
don’t have a car want one and those already own one would like a newer, bigger, and fast. The
number of vehicles is increasing faster than the population and the statistics on car ownership are
staggering. Car manufacturing is responsible for one in ten manufacturing jobs, but along with
car driving it is one of the biggest contributors to air pollution and global warming. In addition to
air pollution and greenhouse gases, automobiles have resulted in traffic gridlock, urban sprawl
and the paving of land for highways, roads and parking lots also for the cleaner, greener cars has
been slow going, and industry efforts have fluctuated with the price and supply of oil.
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(Lesson 7 DNA Fingerprinting : Condemning Evidence )
In this lesson, we were told with the DNA fingerprinting will importance in modern crime
solving. Police detectives, crime scene investigators, and forensic technicians may not be as
glamorous as it appears on television. Before DNA arrived on the scene, digital fingerprints soon
made their way into the criminal justice systems, where they were used to keep a record of
convicted criminals. DNA fingerprinting was not only bringing criminals to justice, but was also
freeing wrongly convicted persons from long prison sentences. We will know that DNA
fingerprinting is usefulness to significant issues temper its success. DNA fingerprinting requires
a high level of expertise and accuracy.
(Lesson 8 Eco-cities : Building Sustainable urban communities)
In this lesson, we were told about the cities. Cities are where all roads lead and where
commerce and culture flourish. It formed communities to protect themselves from hostile tribes,
establish places they could trade products. We will talk about the urbanization. Fewer than 10
percent of urban dwellers are residents of megacities with populations of over ten million. As
engines of growth, cities have also become engines of pollution. Ideally, ecological cities should
provide a high quality of life. We will know the ten ecopolis development principles like restore
degraded land, fit the bioregion, balance development, create compact, optimize energy
performance, contribute to the economy, and the other more.
(Lesson 9 Solar Energy : Power for the future)
In this chapter author tell us about the solar energy in the cities. The sun is the most
abundant source of energy in the solar system. The world has relied on wood, oil, coal, and
natural gas to produce energy. Increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere cause the
global temperatures to rise. The most practical form of solar energy is passive solar, which
occurs when natural light floods in through windows. Solar power has been the subject of intense
debate, therefore we can know about the principal issues like fuel supply sunlight, environmental
impacts, cost processing silicon, energy payback amd the long term energy savings.
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(Lesson 10 Healing Circles : A gentler justice )
We will focus on how to healing circle work in life to process a continue change and with
change comes conflict. In response to incidents of violence, we will hear an outcry from the
public. According to the guiding of healing circles, helping individuals is need serves everyone
involved in the process. We will know about the objectives of healing circles is to support
victims of a crime or harmful behavior, to determine by consensus the appropriate sentence, to
assist the offender in fulfilling the obligations of the sentence, and to reinforce the community’s
ability to prevent crime. Healing circles can be adapted to family situations, schools, the
workplace, government agencies, churches, clubs, organizations, and prisons, and they embrace
all ages, races, and walks of life. Whenever people need to make decisions, to resolve
disagreements, to deal with harm done to others, to engage in teamwork, to learn from each
other, or to celebrate, healing circles guide people toward achieving a greater understanding of
each other and the issues.
(Lesson 11 Medical technology : New frontiers in health care)
In this chapter we’ll learn that computer technology has affected the field of medicine as it
has every aspect of our lives. computer networking infrastructure will allow housebound and
bedridden patients to receive medical care without having to go out the door. We focused to
reading strategies : paraphrasing ; traditional devices. There are three main uses of transitional
devices such as cause and effect, contrast and adding information.
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(Lesson 12 The Enneagram :Understanding our personalities)
In this lesson, we discuss about nine of personalities type. The Perfectionist/Reformer, The
Giver/Helper, The Performer/Achiever, The Romantic/Individualist, The Observer/Investigator,
The Loyal Skeptic/Loyalist, The Epicure/Enthusiast, The Boss/Challenger, and The
Mediator/Peacemaker. We use reading strategies in this part with summarizing: eliminating
relative clauses and appositives. Writing a summary of a reading text is one of the most useful
skills you can develop. Having practiced paraphrasing passages from the reading texts and
organizing key information, you should be able to restate the most important information in your
own words.
(Lesson 13 Artificial Intelligence : Can machines think?)
In this part, we’ll read about we use so many machines that life is unimaginable without
them. Because of machines, we can travel farther and faster. We can access and process greater
quantities of information at ever-increasing speeds. We can perform dangerous and complicated
tasks more safely, efficiently, and precisely.
(Lesson 14 Voluntary simplicity : Making more out of less)
This part tells us that what makes a person happy differs greatly from individual to
individual. For some it’s money, fame, or power; for others, it’s family, relationships, work,
adventure, creativity, or peace of mind. In its short refrain, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” offers a
straightforward formula for happiness—one that most people would agree with—but not
worrying and being happy aren’t always so easy. Or is it possible that by simplifying our lives,
by reducing the clutter that worries and burdens us.
(Lesson 15 Future directions : Ecology or technology?)
This section tells us the core of The Limits to Growth are the concepts of overshoot and
sustainability. Overshoot happens when a course of action goes too far and exceeds its physical
limit. More people require more food, but only so much agricultural land is available to grow it.
To produce more goods for more people, more resources are consumed, but resources come in
limited supply.
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2.2 STRENGTHS OF THE BOOK
The strength contained in this book can be seen from many aspects :
1. In this book, the author make some words bold in purpose that the reader will take a
note with new vocabularies especially in advanced level.
2. This book also uses a lot of exposure or understanding from many kind of material texts
so this increasingly support the book for being more interested.
3. This book includes worksheets so the reader can practice their ability to understand the
materials.
4. Additional materials that can be useful for reader to increase their knowledge and skill
based on good grammar.
5. This book also has reading strategies so that the reader can use many kind of strategies
to read text easily.
6. And the last, the writer add answer key for readers in purpose that the reader can learn
individually and this is extra point from this book.
2.3 WEAKNESSES OF THE BOOK
The weakness of this book is the first book doesn’t have any illustrations that
compared to the second book.
In the second book, there are the vocabulary will be given at the bottom of the page,
but in the first book there is not have the vocabulary in the bottom of the page. In the
comparison book such as the second book, the type of text is in the form of stories and
dialogues. Which are sure to attract more readers' interest than the first book, because in
the first book if we read until the end, you will felt bored because there is no colorful
writing or picture in the texts or something that makes this book interesting to see if we
talk about the form.
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CHAPTER IV
CLOSING
5.1.CONCLUSION
From the explanation above, the conclusion of this book is that we barely known
that reading could bringing up a better life. It could give you lots of knowledges and also
a new perspective you didn't ever expect before. But reading is just not abou reading, it
needs you to comprehend this to improve your own skill. Reading this book and analyzing
the contents makes us realize that there's much benefit we could get by just read a book.
There's a lot of things in this world we don't know yet, much of them also need more
reasearh to find the answer though. This book can't get all the Answers of those questions
but, there's still much left since we need to looking forward for some questions we can find
the answers. Also, Reading strategies is depend on how we comprehend the text gave to
us, it depend on how we could analyze the situation. This book gives you a lot of kind of
reading strategies based on what text you read or what topic you will discuss about. It help
you much to knowing your type of Reading Strategies also give you a time to practice your
reading skills by sort the main idea for each paragraph for each chapter
5.2.SUGGESTION
Based to the weaknesses we analyze from the book, we suggested to put more
illustrations in each chapters. As we know, illustrations gives more imagination to the
readers so that can the readers could easily comprehend the contents of the book. It gives
the readers a stimulation to imagine more the details that book have told. Afterwards, this
book need to add more detail such us variety story, dialogue, colorfull writing or picture,
and anything elses that could attract readers to read the book more and more. Knowingly
that the curve of reading-interested-feeling of human have been down, the author need to
touch the heart of people so that everyone could get fancying into this book and also
bringing up the curve of interested-in-reading.
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REFERENCE
Engelhardt, Diane. 2003 Practice Makes Perfect Advanced ESL Reading and Comprehension
Dorothy, Danielson.1980 Reading in English : for students as second language
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