Eng 102 Week 2 Research Paper
ENG 102
WP-1 - Evaluation Essay
Write an essay that evaluates the value or effectiveness of something according to criteria you establish or identify in the essay.
The Genre: You’re familiar with the book and movie reviews that appear in newspapers, magazines, and websites. They are just one kind of evaluative writing, but from them we can identify the key components of the genre. First, there is the object to be evaluated. Often this is a single thing—a music CD, a scholarly study, a corporation—but it can also be an idea or process: the impact of a particular band on rock history, the importance of a new trend in scholarly opinion, or the management practices used by a particular sector of industry. Second, there are the criteria …show more content…
You must choose something written or recorded (such as a book, movie, CD, TV program, or computer program, video game, etc.), or you might choose a live performance (such as a play, poetry reading, concert, or art exhibition).
Writers who review or evaluate on a regular basis establish or adopt criteria over time, and many of their readers know from experience what the reviewers praise or condemn in a book, movie, or concert. As a novice writer, you will have to be more explicit about the criteria you bring to bear on your evaluation. This is not to say that you should decide on your criteria for evaluation before you read your book, watch your video, or experience your concert. You may find that you are particularly struck by the setting of a novel, for example, so you might want to highlight that as an important criterion for success. In any case, you’ll want to read, view, or listen very carefully, taking lots of notes, and then bounce your ideas off several others before you decide on the particular angle you want to take in your evaluation. Be sure you state your criteria of evaluation clearly. And you will include outside sources—published reviewers or biographers, scholarly critics, or people you survey or interview locally to use as supporting
WP-1 - Evaluation Essay
Write an essay that evaluates the value or effectiveness of something according to criteria you establish or identify in the essay.
The Genre: You’re familiar with the book and movie reviews that appear in newspapers, magazines, and websites. They are just one kind of evaluative writing, but from them we can identify the key components of the genre. First, there is the object to be evaluated. Often this is a single thing—a music CD, a scholarly study, a corporation—but it can also be an idea or process: the impact of a particular band on rock history, the importance of a new trend in scholarly opinion, or the management practices used by a particular sector of industry. Second, there are the criteria …show more content…
You must choose something written or recorded (such as a book, movie, CD, TV program, or computer program, video game, etc.), or you might choose a live performance (such as a play, poetry reading, concert, or art exhibition).
Writers who review or evaluate on a regular basis establish or adopt criteria over time, and many of their readers know from experience what the reviewers praise or condemn in a book, movie, or concert. As a novice writer, you will have to be more explicit about the criteria you bring to bear on your evaluation. This is not to say that you should decide on your criteria for evaluation before you read your book, watch your video, or experience your concert. You may find that you are particularly struck by the setting of a novel, for example, so you might want to highlight that as an important criterion for success. In any case, you’ll want to read, view, or listen very carefully, taking lots of notes, and then bounce your ideas off several others before you decide on the particular angle you want to take in your evaluation. Be sure you state your criteria of evaluation clearly. And you will include outside sources—published reviewers or biographers, scholarly critics, or people you survey or interview locally to use as supporting