Evaluation Essay Instructions
Choose an evaluation prompt from the Assignments page at the end of Ch. 11 (copied below) Topic should relate to something in the nursing or medical field.
Create specific criteria you will use to evaluate your subject.
Write a 2-3 page rough draft of your evaluation and upload it by due date.
Do not use other reviews as sources (no Yelp, Imdb, Rotten Tomatoes, or any source that already gives an evaluation or explanation of book or movie if you choose this) to support your review.
Evaluation Prompts:
Critical Assessment: Step into a controversy as boldly as Megan McArdle does in Serena Williams Is Not the Best Tennis Player (p. 123)and write a critique of some disputable claim within the public arena. You can address sports, as McArdle does, or look for a topic in other areas where evaluative claims are common and controversialpolitics, business, technology, arts, fashion, and so on. (If necessary, look to your Twitter feed for topic ideas.) Write an assessment strong enough to change someones mind.
Product Review: Choose an item that you own, buy, or use regularly, anything from a Coleman Lantern and Dunkin Donuts coffee to a Web site, phone app, or social network you couldnt live without. Then write a fully developed review, making sure to discuss your criteria of evaluation as thoroughly as Megan Giller does in Chocolate Experts Hate Mast Brothers (p. 137). Choose a specific audience if you want and be generous with the supporting details. Use graphics if appropriate.
Arts Review: Drawing on your experience with the arts, review a (medically based) movie, book, television series, work of art, or artist for a publication that you specifyprint or online. It can be as brief as Soup Martinezs review of Catcher in the Rye (p. 141). Perhaps write your review for a local or student publication. Or consider writing a substantive piece for an online site that takes reviewssuch as Amazon or IMDb.
Social Satire/Visual Argument: Take a critical look at some aspect of contemporary society the way Andy Singer does in his No Exit (p. 142). Use either prose or an image to critique a public policy, social movement, or cultural trend you believe deserves censure. But dont create an item that simply marks your subject as dangerous, pathetic, or unsuccessful. Instead, make people laugh at your target while perhaps offering a plausible alternative.
Your Choice: Evaluate a program or facility in some institution you know well (hospital, clinic, nursing home etc) that you believe works either especially efficiently or remarkably poorly. Prepare a presentation in the medium of your choice and imagine that your audience is an administrator with the power to reward or shut down the operation. (Ruszkiewicz, 20181022, p. 143)
