EVALUATIVE STATEMENTS OR EXAMPLE OF EVALUATIVE OUTLINE
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ESSAYS ESSAY Restate Criterion 1. Paragraph 1: Introduction Evaluative statements or evaluative Give your opinion on how your topic essays present a value judgement Use an opening sentence. You may meets the criterion. Use strong based on a set of criteria. In writing use a quotation, a question, a adjectives. evaluative statements, a writer is able statement, a statistic,etc. Provide supporting evidence to to explain why a strength is a strength, Describe your topic. support your opinion. and a weakness a weakness. List the criterion (at least three) for Give a statement that defends evaluating your topic. against counterarguments. Three parts of an evaluative essay: Give your opinion. This is your thesis Paragraph 5: Conclusion 1. The Judgement or overall opinion statement. 2. The criteria or reasons for the Think of a methaphor or simile that Paragraph 2: Description of Criterion 1 opinion will make your reader understand 3. The evidence to support it. Restate Criterion 1. your opinion. Give your opinion on how your topic Restate your opinion. meets the criterion. Use strong End with a great lasting thought MAIN COMPONENTS OF AN adjectives. based on your opinion. EVALUATIVE ESSAY Provide supporting evidence to 1. Introduction- this is where the support your opinion. STEPS IN WRITING AN EVALUATIVE writer gives his or her overall opinion Give a statement that defends ESSAY or judgement in the form of a thesis against counterarguments. statement. 1. Choose a topic that you have 2. Background Information- gives Paragraph 3: Description of Criterion 2 enough knowledge. the readers an idea of what the writer Restate Criterion 1. 2. Formulate the thesis. is talking about. Give your opinion on how your topic 3. Think of the conditions that you 3. Criteria- the criterion is something meets the criterion. Use strong are going to use to make the tha is used as a reason for making a judgement. adjectives. judgement or decision. 4. Find supporting evidence to prove Provide supporting evidence to 4. Conclusion- summarizes the points your point of view. support your opinion. made in the body of the essay. 5. Prepare a rough draft, organize Give a statement that defends against counterarguments. the criteria and the evidence found.