For this assignment, you will be writing a 5 page essay (12-point font’ 1” margins, double-spaced) that evaluates a movie by chosen criteria it should be judged. How does the subject that you’ve selected hold up when compared to those standards? YOU ARE FREE TO PICK ANY CRITERIA AND ANY MOVIE.
Be careful to present an argument about your topic—a judgment of some sort—rather than simply a description of it. Descriptive details will help to introduce your readers to your subject and will serve as evidence to support your evaluative conclusions, but in order to do well on the assignment, you must also be sure to analyze how your subject measures up to the criteria which you’ve outlined.
Key Features:
An opening hook that introduces your topic and captures the reader’s attention;
A thesis that presents your overall claim about this topic; this will likely be the last sentence of your introduction. It needs to make a clear judgment about the subject’s worth;
Criteria that you are using as the basis of your evaluation;
A clear judgment for each criterion you are using in your evaluation;
Adequate, specific evidence to support your judgments that the topic either meets or falls short of the stated criteria; this can include detailed description, facts, examples, testimony, or statistics.
Developed, well-organized body paragraphs with clear topic sentences and transitions;
A conclusion that provides closure to the essay and considers the implications of the argument;
Observance of the conventions of standard written English.
