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Writing Evaluation Essays: A Comprehensive Guide, Schemes and Mind Maps of Voice

English Language and LiteratureCreative WritingCommunication Studies

An insightful guide on how to write effective evaluation essays. It covers the essential features of evaluation essays, including the need to describe the subject, make a definitive judgment, and present a convincing argument with reasonable criteria and evidence. The document also discusses the use of evaluation in various contexts, such as book and movie reviews, work processes, and evaluating employees and programs.

What you will learn

  • How can writers provide evidence to support their judgments in evaluation essays?
  • What are some common contexts for using evaluation essays?
  • What are the key features of a successful evaluation essay?

Typology: Schemes and Mind Maps

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Download Writing Evaluation Essays: A Comprehensive Guide and more Schemes and Mind Maps Voice in PDF only on Docsity! A Brief Guide to Writing Evaluation Essays Many of the features of evaluations are the same as those found in a cause and effect  essay, although the writer is not showing a causal relationship. Evaluative essays seek to prompt  readers to examine their own values and to perhaps accept the view of the writer. In this sense,  evaluation is more like argumentation. Evaluation can be used in book and movie reviews or it  can be used to describe a work process. We evaluate employees and employers; we evaluate the  success of particular programs in government or education. Features: 1. An adequately described subject. The writer should describe the subject of the essay in  some detail, according to what he or she thinks the reader should know. Writers usually  provide only enough information to allow their readers to accept their judgment. The  emphasis, therefore, is on the authoritative voice of the writer. However, if you were  going to evaluate a book, your reader would need to know the author, the date of  publication, what it was about, etc. 2. A judgment. The writer must assert him or herself by making a definitive judgment. This  judgment should be the writer’s thesis sentence. All other paragraphs should seek to  prove the thesis, even if a writer must give a balanced appraisal by anticipating  objections. 3. A convincing argument. After you state your judgment, present an argument based on  reasonable criteria. “Reasonable criteria” means using standards that are generally used  to describe something. For instance, if you are evaluating a mystery novel but are using  the criteria used to judge a self­help book, you might have difficulty. Writers should also  provide evidence to make their argument. If you state that the mystery novel has a plot  that is unlikely, then you must give several examples directly from the novel and tell why  they are unlikely. Evidence should include description, examples, facts, statistics, and  testimony of others. A writer may also choose to make comparisons when writing an  evaluation. For instance, the mystery novel could be compared to an Agatha Christie  novel to help clarify its strengths and weaknesses.
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