The 4
MAT Review is a way of responding to
readings, lectures, and life experiences that requires you, the learner, to interact with new ideas on several levels.
Y
ou will write a review on
the
Entwistle
text
book.
In preparing your
4
M
AT
Reviews, use each of the
4
sections listed below with
corresponding Level
One headings
in current APA format
:
1.
Provide a
title page
including
only
your name, the paper title (referring to the book title), and the institutional affiliation (Liberty Univer
sity). Keep in mind that current
APA
standards
recommend the title length not exceed 12 words.
All pages must include a running head and page number, and all pages are double spaced.
2.
Summary:
After introducing the name of the book
and author, summarize the book
in
approximately
2
pages
. B
e
appropriately concise but also be
adequately complete in your ideas.
Prove
that you comprehend the main ideas
by writing a
clear and
succinct
summary. The
summary
is not a commentary or listing of topics but rather
a d
iscussion of the core ideas
(main ideas)
in the entire book. If you miss the main ideas, you lack an understanding of the complete message of the book.
The su
mmary provides the foundation for
the rest of your 4MAT paper.
Cite the book in
–
text at least once per paragraph and include page numbers for direct quotations.
3.
Concrete Responses:
Be vulnerable
.
In
approximately
1
page,
write about a
personal life episode that this book triggered
in your memory. Relate your story in first person, describing action and quoting exact words you remember hearing or saying. In the teaching style of Jesus, this is your own parable, case study, or personal connection to the main ideas of the book. Your comments in this section need to be clearly tied to main points from the book, not tangential ideas.
Connect your comments to the main points for the reader.
4.
Reflection:
This
section is
a short critique or evaluation of the author’s main ideas
;
include positives/negatives and strengths/weaknesses. You
should
consider
new questions
that arose
for you in
response to what you have read and explore concerns,
implications
, etc.
Provide this critique in approximately
1
page
(
sometimes additional length may be needed to provide an adequate critique
)
.
5.
Action:
What are you going to do about it? Develop action steps based on
the
core points of the book. This section must be a description of how
the
main ideas will affect your counseling. What professional changes will you implement and share with others? Be precise in summarizing your action steps
and
clearly
connect
your action steps to main points
from the book
.
This section
must
be
1
page or less.
6.
You are also required to create
a
r
eferences page
; on this page,
you
must
provide the complete reference citation for
the
book in compliance with current APA standards.
Create and submit these assignments in a Microsoft Word document; these assignments must be written at the graduate-level and must be in current APA format.