Goals

• 1) To develop students’ deep thinking and creativity by improving their reading skills
• 2) To promote the use of EFL recommended books (currently 190 books including e-books) at the KAIST library

Participants

KAIST undergraduate students

Book selection

• There are 190 English novels in the EFL section of the KAIST library. 130 of them are also available in e-books on the KAIST Library website(e-Resources->e-books->ProQuest Ebook Central).
  

  
  EFL library book list
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HuGqxGFpcUNI85_LoO939OQUxVfN4fZNOn2J3ORuqCA/edit?usp=sharing

• Students need to obtain permission from the book review committee before submitting essay/presentation/book tralier if the English novel of choice is not on the EFL book list.

Awards

There are three ways to participate in this book review contest: Essay, Presentation, and Book trailer.

1) Essay – 1 Grand Prize (700,000 won gift certificate) & 2 Excellence Prizes (400,000 won gift certificate for each)
A book review essay should be 3 pages, double spaced, a maximum of 1,000 words.
A winning essay should contain the following:

• The title of the book and the author’s name should be included in the title of essay.
• A brief plot of the book
• In your point of view, what is one of the book's larger themes or purposes?
  • Create a thesis by developing an argument.
• What passages or parts do you see in this book that are noteworthy (interesting or significant) and how have they enhanced your understanding of the argument you are presenting about the book?
  • Use textual evidence from the book and your commentary to support your thesis using APA formatting. (Check the link below on how to format in-text citations and references in 7th-edition APA).
  • General in-text citation
    https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html
  • Reference list
    https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_books.html
• What is your overall opinion of the book? To whom would you recommend it?
  • Book Review sample
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GMBbl9srA-O9cBGaIoiYkAYaSfAwS8eu/edit#heading=h.qzt9glyfkquh

2) Presentation – 1 Grand Prize (500,000 won gift certificate)
A book review presentation should be pre-recorded and 4-5 minutes in length and should include the following:

• Book information on one slide (author, title, publisher, place and date of publication).
• A brief plot of the book without giving away the ending.
• A larger theme/purpose/message in the book. How do you know that this is a theme? Provide support using example(s) from the book.
• Your overall opinion of the book. To whom would you recommend it?
• A reference slide should be included as the last slide of the presentation. You should cite sources you used including your book and any images/information you used from various websites.
  • APA reference for books
    https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_books.html
  • APA reference for online sources
    https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_electronic_sources.html
• *Students will submit both the presentation file and the presentation video. *

3) Book trailer – 1 Grand Prize (500,000 won gift certificate)
A book trailer is a promotional video (much like a movie trailer) that highlights the story without giving away the ending. The trailer must include important scenes and incorporate speaking characters from the book. The book trailer video should be approximately 2-3 minutes.

• Sample trailer: Of mice and men
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ye-REkHgrQ

Evaluation criteria

• 1) Originality of contents, appropriateness, and accuracy will be the most important criterion.
• 2) In the case of an essay, correct grammar will be the second most important criterion.
• 3) One can receive Grand Prize only once, and excellence prizes may be given to the same person up to 3 times.
• 4) A participant who engages in plagiarism will be excluded from the contest, and additional measures may be taken by the school disciplinary committee.

Schedule

• 1) Submission deadline: Friday, October 8, 2021
• 2) Announcement of selected works: Monday, November 15, 2021
• 3) Award ceremony for selected works: Thursday, December 2, 2021

Rules

• 1) Participants must be current KAIST undergraduate students.
• 2) All submissions must be in English and must be original.
• 3) One submission per category is allowed for a participant: that is, a participant can submit one essay, one presentation, and one book trailer.
• 4) An essay must be submitted in PDF or MS Word.
• 5) After uploading presentation/book trailer videos to the student’s personal Youtube account, the student must submit the link.
• 6) Students must submit both the Power Point file and Youtube link for presentation.

Submission

Upload your work on the board at the bottom of book contest webpage (see below).

Inquiry

EFL Program Coordinator Minju Shin (042-350-4650, efl@kaist.ac.kr)

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