In Summary: Writing an Evaluative Essay
Find a conversation and listen in.
- Explore your needs, interests, and concerns.
- Search the Web.
- Narrow your focus by asking questions.
Conduct your evaluation.
- Define your criteria.
- Identify evidence.
- Make your judgments.
Prepare a draft.
- State your overall judgment.
- Present your evaluation.
- Consider genre and design.
- Frame your evaluation.
Review and improve your draft.
- Review your criteria.
- Reconsider your evidence.
- Ensure that your judgments are fair and reasonable.