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Essay 2: Creating an Argument of Evaluation
Objective: To apply skills learned to both analyze and construct arguments of evaluation.
Assignment: An evaluative argument is when a claim is made about something based on a clear set of established criteria. For example, you might have found yourself recommending a particular restaurant to a friend. Implicit or explicit in your recommendation is a set of criteria used to make the claim that a particular restaurant is better than another, e.g. the service, the price, or the quality of the food served.
Please select one work that inspires your interest. It may be a work of literature, a song/album, a film, a television show/series, or a video game. There may be positive or negative feelings about the work chosen. However, in this essay decide how you think and feel about a particular work and write an evaluation/review of it.
In writing your review, be sure to include the following:
? Criteria in which you are basing your evaluation
? A claim/reason/warrant/evidence to support your evaluation
? Proper qualifications for your claim
? Evidence For the evidence to support your evaluation, you may draw upon your own experiences and opinions of the work you have chosen. However, 1-2 reviews from other sources on the work you have chosen should be evaluated and used to either support or provide a counterargument for existing evidence. These sources can be from newspapers, magazines, or credible online publications. Do not use comments or anonymous evaluations (i.e. Amazon reviews, comment threads, blogs) as sources
. Try to find whole articles/reviews written by an easily identified author from a reasonable source.
Whatever source you use for this essay please answer these questions separately at the end of the essay.
1. Who is the author of your source? Are they an authority on the topic? How?
2. Where is the article published? What does the site (web address extension, website layout, language used, etc.) say about the authority of the article?
3. What is the process used to deliver the information? Does the author quote others, use statistics, or link to other sources?
4. What is the perspective of the article? (Note: it’s okay if an article is opinionated, as long as it uses facts and reason to support its claims). Also, who is the intended audience?
5. What can you use in this source to help support your own analysis in Essay 2?
