For this assignment, on Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic
of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it, you have two options.
Option #1: Review the book as if for a medical journal. This
will require a summary of the book's main points, important arguments,
exciting discoveries, and so forth. This will also require answering a
fundamental question: should readers of the medical journal read this book
or not? Because this is both scientific discovery and history, is it something
that physicians ought to read? Is it readable? Interesting? Worth their
time? Or is it aimed at a totally different audience, so physicians will
gain nothing?
Option #2: Interview one or more of the people who appear in
the book (as if for television). (Obviously, this will be virtual rather
than real.) Who are you interviewing? What kinds of questions do you ask
them (and how do they answer)? You can submit either a transcript or summary
of conversations.
Regardless of option selected, your paper will be well-written, free of spelling and grammatical errors, contractions and other dread paper flaws.