evaluative essay on forrest gump

Assignment: For this assignment, you will write a (minimum 1000 words) thesis-driven essay that evaluates a single work, using a specific reasoning/evidence derived from criteria to support your stance, and incorporating two outside (secondary)sources.

Key Terms:

Evaluation: Writers evaluate a claim that something is good or bad, right or wrong, useful or not

Criteria: The criteria are based on the factors that matter in deciding whether your subject succeeds or does not succeed, is strong or weak, or good in some respects and poor in others

Judgment: The judgment is the establishment whether or not the criteria is met. In other words, the judgment is what actually is.

Evidence: The evidence is the details offered to support the judgment. The evidence is used to show how the judgment was reached.

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to practice and develop the ability to construct, define, and support evaluative criteria, to generate a thesis based on evaluative criteria, and arrange, draft, and write a persuasive essay.

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