Monday, November 23, 2009

Its the best one out there!

641-661
According to Norton's Field Guide to Writing,
This section is focusing mainly on Evaluations. At the end of the short sample evaluations, the book provides a reader with the way an evaluation on the specific topic would look. For example, the one on a Flat bread Company ended up looking like a "list". The list was divided into different categories that the evaluation was based on. Some of the categories were food and service. I thought that this overall evaluation was the best put together one, and caught my eye first.
There was also a film evaluation in this section. The movie under review was Harry Potter. The book simply wanted you to look for the details that the writer thought the book was missing. I thought that the writer of this review was simply just trying to give suggestions on what the movie could have done better. He/She did not give much criticism.
Overall, in my opinion I think the composer of this section put very effective evaluations in this section. All of these were different, each was based on different aspects of life. Flat bread companies to movies is a great stretch. I felt this to be very beneficial as a student.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

4 out of 5 approve

According to Norton's Field Guide to Writing,


Evaluate--to determine or set the value or amount of; to judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of.

Key Features of an Evaulation
1. A concise description of the subject- include just enough information to let readers who may not be familiar with your subject understand what it is.

2. Clearly defined criteria-determine clear criteria as as the basis for you judgement.

3. A knowledgeable discussion of the subject- show that you know what you are talking about and that what you researched is legitimate.

4. A balanced and fair assessment- an evaluation is centered on a judgement.

5. Well-supported reasons- giving reasons for your judgement.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Go Team!!

My group and I just had a group conference. Me, Angella, Amy, and Jenelle got very useful information regarding our website. We each got feedback from our instructor on how to make our section the best it can be. We are still getting along very well with each other, and I am positive it will stay that way. We are all very cooperative with each other, which makes everything so much easier with this project.
I am working on the section "facts and stats". I got all my information from one easy and convenient site. This site reallly helped me with stats about all the different aspects of self-defense. I even found information about college students and defense they can take while on campus. Which was really useful since our target audience for this project is young college women.
Other than that, everything is running smoothly and we are having a blast creating a website and learning all about self-defense!