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This assignment asks you to evaluate something in your world, something with which you have—or have had—contact. This prompt asks for a formal incarnation of an evaluation, but the process of evaluating engages skills you use—and have already used—informally many times in your daily life. For example, when you see a movie, you usually form an opinion of that movie, and this opinion usually determines whether or not you recommend the movie to your friends. Similarly, you likely approach dining out with the same critical lens. Really, there are an infinite number of experiences, people, events, places, objects, etc. that one might evaluate; your charge is to find one complex enough to warrant a four-page evaluation.

Once you have selected something to evaluate, the next thing you MUST do is determine criteria by which you will evaluate that thing (we will discuss this in class today). Criteria are the categories by which you will judge the object of your evaluation; for example, if you evaluate a restaurant, you might look at how that restaurant measures up according to the following criteria: 1) Service; 2) Décor; 3) Value; 4) Parking; 5) Cleanliness; 6) Food Quality; etc. This list is not exhaustive—there are still other criteria that might be enlisted, such as “Reputation.” The key is to select appropriate criteria important to you, and that have also some universal importance; for example, when reviewing a restaurant, you would not use as a criterion “Servers’ Footwear.” One additional word about criteria: All criteria are not weighted equally; for example, when reviewing a restaurant, the criteria receiving the most weight would likely be Cleanliness, Service, Food Quality, and Value—Parking and Décor are important, but not quite as important as the other criteria.

In the process of measuring the object of your evaluation against carefully selected criteria, you will discover how you feel about said object. This will generally—although not always—lead to approval or disapproval of the thing evaluated. Somewhere in your paper, you must give an overall qualitative statement about the object of your evaluation; for example, you might recommend the reader experience that thing, or you might caution the reader to not waste his/her money, or you might recommend the object of your evaluation, but with some caveats.