Evaluation essay asks you to evaluate the effectiveness of a policy, the quality of a consumer product, the benefits of pursuing a specific hobby, or the merits of a specific film or book. To write a successful evaluation argument, you need to establish the criteria that support your judgment. You will identify 2-4 criteria that support the validity of your claim. It will not be enough simply to summarize the policy, activity, or item you’ve selected. You must also analyze and evaluate its validity based on the criteria you’ve selected.
For your evaluation essay, you want to select a topic that is debatable, since your task is to persuade the reader that the criteria you select to argue your point of view are appropriate and convincing and, therefore, that your argument (or thesis) is correct.
Make sure you write on one of the following topics:
Evaluate the effectiveness of a policy.
Evaluate the quality of a consumer product.
Evaluate the benefits of pursuing a specific hobby.
n the introduction to your evaluation essay, you will explain the significance of the problem or issue that you will be evaluating. The sample evaluation essay on the next page demonstrates how the author uses the introduction to provide some contextual information about the policy that will be evaluated in the essay. The introduction ends with your thesis statement.
Make sure you choose only one specific hobby, product, film, book, or policy to write on. Give background information or context to lead the reader to your specific thesis. End the introduction with the one-sentence thesis:
In the conclusion, you should include your thesis statement and a 1-2 sentence summary of each of the points discussed in the paper. Do not provide any new information in the conclusion. Once again, the sample evaluation essay provides a good example of an effective conclusion.
At least one APA format source should be cited here. The sources here should have at least one in-text citation in the body that matches those sources listed here.
