Reviewing each kind of book or resource

What a review checks and how it reaches its verdict change with the kind of work under review. This branch covers those differences, divided by the kind of book or resource reviewed. It leaves the standard every review holds a book to, naming its readers, the short notice and taking a review on to the other parts of book reviews.

• Reviewing a book that argues a case — stating a thesis accurately before assessing it, showing how it runs through the book, checking the claims against evidence outside the book, and separating the verdict on the scholarship from the recommendation
• Reviewing a reference book or textbook — setting a textbook, reference work or handbook against the ambition it states, describing its organisation and the apparatus a reader uses, casebooks and essay collections, and the reservations beside the verdict
• Reviewing a practical guide or software manual — the reader a guide is written for, what each chapter covers, how the book is organised, its price against other help, how long its advice holds, and what it changed in the reviewer's practice
• Reviewing popular science and narrative nonfiction — judging craft as well as content, conveying a speculative argument fairly, why a book matters beyond being well written, how different readers take it, and a verdict earned case by case
• Reviewing a health book written for patients and the public — judging a guide for patients, carers or parents by what a worried reader can do with it, finding its approachability in the book's features, and naming the readers it serves and those it does not
• Reviewing websites, videos and other media — what a review section covers beyond books, a resource review's own anatomy, comparing two resources, and testing a documentary's evidence against its framing