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132The descriptive move, Outlining the book, is usually the longest one, appearingin the next few paragraphs. It includes a detailed description of how the book isorganized, e.g., in parts, chapters, sections, etc., what topics are treated in each chapterwith what approach, and what kind of additional information such as graphs, pictures,and tables, is included in the book.The second longest move is Highlighting parts of the book. It conveys focusedevaluation, i.e., the critique of the book properly said. Here the reviewer concentrates onspecific features giving a positive or negative comment with varying degrees of hedging,from definitive to very mild criticism or praise.In general, the closing move, Providing final evaluation, is explicitly signaled atthe beginning of the last paragraph by a lexical phrase such as ‘In sum’, where thespeaker signals to the interlocutor that the text is reaching its end. In this final section,the reviewer’s point of view is clearly stated to the reader in a definitive appraisal of thebook, i.e., whether the book is worth reading or not.In the next section, it will be discussed how each one of these moves is realized inthe texts.5.2 Canonical movesWith few exceptions, all 60 BRs include the four canonical moves shown in Figure5-1, demonstrating the existence of a rather consistent pattern of informationorganization in the texts.The idea of a basic text structure for the genre is supported by the fact that,although no clear guidelines concerning content or form are provided to reviewers in