07 Jul The Evaluation Essay
Critical Essay Assignment: The Evaluation Essay
Write a paper evaluating an essay in the style of essay called an evaluation. For an evaluation essay, you will be evaluating your subject’s quality based on a set of criteria that you decide is the basis for your judgment about your subject. Your claim will be making a judgment about value, such as whether or not a product, idea or text is good or bad (or somewhere in-between). This assignment meets the course learning objective to be able to describe, analyze and write contemporary arguments. You may choose your topic from this list: I’ll provide it as a file.
Your paper should include:
- Introduction to your subject (including any relevant background info)
- Statement of judgement (consider this in terms of value: good, bad, better than, worse than, of merit, worthless)
- Three reasons with evidence in support of the judgement
- Statement of opposing sides position (opposite – i.e., this is not a good point because…)
- Opposing side’s position must be supported by evidence
- A counterargument that explains why your evaluative judgement is correct over the opposing side’s position. You should back your counterargument with evidence that refutes the opposing side’s position.
- Conclusion (in paragraph form-usually 3-5 sentences).
- You’ll need to include a Work Cited page following your essay.
- You’ll need to cite your sources in MLA style, which is the type of formatting needed for English papers. Please refer to to review the information on MLA style citations. You’ll need to cite the essay you evaluated in your Work Cited page, in addition to any other sources you might use. The only required source is an essay that you evaluate if you complete a critique of an essay, or a source on an evaluative claim that you make on a topic.
- More info: Essays need to be about 4 or 5 pages long, double-spaced in 12 pt regular font
