Evaluation Questions

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Evaluation Questions
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Evaluation How well?

• You are being asked how well or how effectively
  the writer has conveyed his ideas.
• The question may use words such as how
• Good
• Effective
• Successful
• Appropriate
• Convincing

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Types of Evaluation Question

• Comment on how effective or appropriate the
  title/ opening/ending of the passage is.
• Comment on the effectiveness of a technique the
  writer uses such as word choice/sentence
  structure/imagery
• Explain how convincing the writers arguments
  are/ how well they have conveyed their ideas.
• Show how well the writer achieves his or her
  PURPOSE (entertain/persuade usually)

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Dont Feed the Bears Q10 How effective do you
find the headline and second headline in catching
the readers attention? (2E)

• 2 marks question that requires you to look at
  2 different features of the article (Logically 1
  mark for your response to each headline)
• Dont feed the bears
• A hungry visitor can turn a lazy camping trip
  into a fairly grizzly experience

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Headline 1 - Dont Feed the Bears

• Use of Command draws the readers attention to
  the headline.
• The headline sounds like a notice in a zoo/safari
  park
• If this was an analysis question the above
  responses would be enough but this is an
  evaluation question so you need to say how
  effective you found each aspect of the headline.

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- Use of Command draws the readers attention to
the headline.- The headline sounds like a notice
in a zoo/safari park

• The headline is very effective in catching
  the readers attention because
• the use of command demands that the reader pay
  attention to it and suggests that the topic is
  serious enough to merit the readers attention.
• The fact that the headline sounds like a
  zoo/safari park notice means it conveys the
  headline and the subject of the article clearly
  and succinctly to the reader.

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Activity Now try to answer the Evaluation
question using the second headline A hungry
visitor can turn a lazy camping trip into a
fairly grizzly experience

• Use of Pun effectively draws the readers
  attention to the headline as grizzly can mean
  both frightening and a type of bear, the double
  meaning is effective in clearly conveying that
  the passage is specifically about bear attacks
  and that the nature of these can be terrifying.

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Dont feed the bears Q11 Look at the two
stories told about Lisa Warner (lines 29-35 and
Angela Wallace (lines 42-50). How effectively
does the writer make the second of the stories
seem more frightening? (4E)

• Because this is question asks you about a
  comparison there are 2 things that you need to do
  here
• Comment on the features that make the second
  story more frightening
• Comment on the features that make the first story
  less frightening.

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2012 Paper

• How effective do you find any aspect of the final
  paragraph (lines 7879) as a
• conclusion to the passage?
• Your answer might deal with such features as word
  choice or tone.

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Final paragraph (lines 78 79)

• When a superstition that is supposed to help you
  actually hinders you, it is probably time to kick
  the ritual into touch. With a rabbits foot,
  obviously.

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Conclusion.

• Ideas what has the writer been arguing? What
  point of view have they been trying to make you
  agree with?
• Decide,
• Does the conclusion hint at/resolve any of the
  previous ideas
• is there a clear outcome?
• Is there a twist or something unexpected.

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How effective do you find any aspect of the final
paragraph (lines 78 79) as a conclusion to the
passage? Your answer might deal with such
features as word choice or tone. 2 E

• The reference to the elements of help and
  hindrance (1)
• (neatly) recaps the idea of ambivalence explored
  elsewhere
• in the passage (1)
• OR
• ritual (1)
• (tellingly) repeats a (significant) word used
  earlier/repeated (three times)
• earlier in the passage (1)
• OR
• (metaphor) kick (the ritual into touch) (1)
• (neatly) reprises references to football/sport
  used earlier (1)
• OR
• a rabbits foot is (clearly) associated with
  superstition (1)
• which is the articles topic (1)
• OR
• With a rabbits foot, obviously (1)
• (adroitly) reprises the cynical/sceptical/humorous
  tone seen
• elsewhere (1)

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• Style.
• Does it change or is it the same as the rest of
  the paragraph?
• Does the conclusion return to the wording of the
  opening paragraph?
• Is there an example of word choice or simile or
  metaphor that is re- used in a slightly different
  way.

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• Tone does it remain the same.
• Light hearted may become serious.
• Serious may become light hearted.
• Is there a punch line?
• A joke?
• A quotation which leaves you thinking?
• A new idea which leaves you thinking?

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Example

• Language skills Intermediate Two\Mixed Blessing
  of Eternal Life evaluation.doc