Evaluation Essays
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. But
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. .
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