Module 3 Formulating Evaluative Statements

Reading and Writing Skills GRADE 11 FORMULATING EVALUATIVE STAMENTS MODULE 3 Formulating Evaluative Statements We always want to be satisfied whenever we read any material. The craving of our personal, social, intellectual, and / or spiritual aspects is satiated when we read. This happened when we are focused and discerned through critical thinking. It entails looking closely on the context, content, semantics, language used, syntax, and significance in the reading process. The readers, being conscious on the elements in reading processes should have the natural tendency to evaluate the reading material in general. Evaluation refers to the making of a value judgment. Once you have taken a position in a controversy involves value judgment. To support the position, we must make value judgments as well. In doing this, certain criteria are involved. An evaluative statement can be used to show your opinions, judgments, and points of view in a clear concise manner. An evaluative statement is a way of giving a better explanation to show the strengths and weaknesses of something through writing. It presents a value judgment based on a set of criteria. This value judgement is based on the evidenced gathered. It explains the reason of both strength and weakness as they are. An evaluative statement manifests the objectivity of reaction to a text read and analyzed. Evaluative statements must be fair, factual, and substantial. It must be written carefully because people may believe in them, and we must not be unfair or cruel to authors of texts. Providing well-crafted justification exhibit how critically the argument is treated and researched. Why are evaluative statements so important? The veracity of the information from the material read is put into question if there is the absence of evaluation. It helps us strengthen our critical thinking and assess the overall quality of the text. By evaluating, one is carrying out in-depth research of the different sides of arguments, understanding the perspective of the author based on what you are reading, summarizing it, and rewriting it in the same flow of the authors intention. Through evaluation, one can develop own opinions and skills after gauging and balancing the positives and the negatives of any argument Reading and Writing Skills GRADE 11 Let us practice evaluating statement. “Every person has something good to add to this world.” 1. Begin with the positives. It is true that human being is good and capable to share goodness. 2. Keep your feedback concise. The statement is an acknowledgement of human beings’ capability to share goodness to others. In times of calamities, modern heroes and heroines manifest the value of sharing goodness to others. 3. When pointing out negatives, focus on the situation, not the person. Our world would be good if all human being willed to share goodness. No more hatred, anger, violence, and death brought by selfishness and conceitedness if good intention of sharing is emancipated. How to form evaluative statements? Evaluative statement is about your judgement of the text’s content and property. This judgement came from your exercise of critical thinking and careful study of the gathered evidence. The evidence substantiates the text. This evidence can lead you to support or not the claim of the writer. From it, you can decide crafting your own stand or opinion in an argument supported by research or valid reasons. The composition can be in two easy ways: 1. Formulating assertions about the content and the properties of a text read. Assertions are declarative sentences that claim something is true about something else. In this step, you must examine which ideas are facts or opinions, make inferences or conclusions, and assess the overall quality of the text. These assertions usually hold evaluative languages such as useful, significant, important, insightful, detailed, up-todate, comprehensive, practical, etc. 2. Formulating a meaningful counterclaim in response to a claim in the text read. A counterclaim is an opposition you make about the claim of a writer. You must recognize courtesy when you state your counterclaims. You can include modals – may, could, would, etc. Some frequency adverbs can also be used like usually, generally, commonly. Another set of adverbs showing probability can be utilized such as probably, possibly, and presumably. If you are not so smart, you should try to be a teacher., teachers are smart. The statement is very discriminative against those with average intelligence and teachers in general. Lots of professional who are called so smart are honed, trained, instructed, and guided by teachers. Reading and Writing Skills GRADE 11 ACTIVITY 1 Answer the following questions. Write the letter of the answer on the space before the number. 1. Which of the following presents the clearest evaluative statement? A. Full-time learner attainment is high. B. Learner attainment is consistently high. C. Learner attainment is higher that of the other school. D. Full-time learner attainment is well above national comparators: 60% against a sector average of 54%. 2. Which of the following presents the clearest evaluative statement? A. Learner completion diminished. B. Learner completion has fallen over the last year. C. Seventy percent of our learners failed to complete. D. Learner completion for 2005-2006 was 68% below our target of 70%. 3. Which of the following presents the clearest evaluative statement? A. Every individual is blessed. B. Every individual is thoughtful. C. Thoughtful and generous individuals are highly blessed. D. The individual is highly blessed, thoughtful, and generous. 4. Which of the following presents the clearest evaluative statement? A. People are inclined to technology. B. People are productive in technology. C. The technology is productive because of people. D. People inclined to technology are more productive. 5. Which of the following presents the clearest evaluative statement? A. People seek attention. B. People seek attention to all. C. People usually seek attention. D. People who are not motivated usually seek attention. ACTIVITY 3 Identify whether the given statement is an evaluative statement or not. Write ES if it is evaluative statement and N if not. 1. People can become doctors. 2. No one is poor that he has nothing to share. 3. In posting things on social media, you must think before you click. 4. We save the planet. 5. Obesity is probably caused by the bad food choices being offered by the food industry. Reading and Writing Skills GRADE 11 POSTTEST