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Evaluating Texts Through Writing: Prepared By: Miss Divine Grace D. Erguiza, LPT

This document provides guidance on evaluating texts through writing responses. It discusses formulating evaluative statements by assessing the validity of an author's ideas and checking for logical fallacies. Evaluative statements judge the content and quality of a text. When writing responses, one should summarize the text, then express whether they agree with the author, supporting their viewpoint with evidence from the text. The document provides tips for drafting, revising and proofreading responses to ensure a clear and well-supported evaluation.

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Evaluating Texts Through Writing: Prepared By: Miss Divine Grace D. Erguiza, LPT

This document provides guidance on evaluating texts through writing responses. It discusses formulating evaluative statements by assessing the validity of an author's ideas and checking for logical fallacies. Evaluative statements judge the content and quality of a text. When writing responses, one should summarize the text, then express whether they agree with the author, supporting their viewpoint with evidence from the text. The document provides tips for drafting, revising and proofreading responses to ensure a clear and well-supported evaluation.

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EVALUATING

TEXTS THROUGH
WRITING
MODULE 12
P R E P A R E D B Y : M I S S D I V I N E G R A C E D . E R G U I Z A , L P T
• ASIDE FROM STATING THAT YOU AGREE OR NOT THE AUTHOR’S IDEAS
IN THE TEXT, ANOTHER WAY TO RESPOND TO TEXTS IS BY
FORMULATING EVALUATIVE STATEMENTS.

EVALUATING TEXTS IS ASSESSING THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE


AUTHOR’S IDEAS ARE VALID.
FORMULATING EVALUATIVE
STATEMENTS
• Evaluative statements about a text are formulated after having read the text
carefully and critically, which means that the reader/writer has grasped the
essence of the text and has checked if there are fallacies in the arguments.
• Fallacies occur when illogical reasoning is used to support a faulty argument,
considering that faulty arguments are difficult to support with logical reasoning.
• The formulation of evaluative statements is done the same way you do any other
writing except that the statement is about your judgment of the text’s content
and properties.
HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR ASSERTIONS
ABOUT THE TEXT?
I. Formulating Assertions about the Content and Properties of a Text Read
• In formulating assertions, you have to examine which ideas are facts or
opinions, make inferences and conclusions, and assess the overall quality of the
text.
• These assertions usually contain evaluative language such as useful, significant,
important, insightful, detailed, up to date, comprehensive, practical, etc.
II. Formulating Meaningful Counterclaims in Response to Claims Made in a Text Read
• You must recognize the value of hedges when you state your counterclaims.
• A hedge is a word or phrase that minimizes the negative impact of a criticism.
• When you are presenting a counterclaim, you are providing criticism since you are stating that
the claim is not true.
• Hedges could come in different forms, such as: modals, frequency adverbs, probability
adverbs.
DETERMINING TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

• When you give comments on a text read, you ought to support your claim in your statement by
quoting an idea presented in the text. Since your evidences is in the form of text, it is called
textual evidence.
• In using textual evidence, you have to make sure that you have cited both the objective and
subjective evidence.
• Objective evidence is information from the text which is considered as solid support because
this includes specific information such as scores, quantity, and percentages.
• Subjective evidence is textual evidence that is not measurable or specific.
WRITING A RESPONSE TO A READ TEXT

• Writing a response is one way of evaluating a text you have read.


• In writing reading responses, you will make use of your skill in writing summaries because you
must first lay out your understanding of the text before you can actually express the extent to
which you agree or disagree with the author on a particular element of his/her writing.
• A reading response has two parts, the summary and the response itself.
• In writing a response, it will be easier if you write marginal notes or annotate the text with your
reaction on every element or idea in the text as you read.
• Be prepared to do the following: (1.) examine the connection between the author’s profile and
the author’s claim; (2.) think about the audience and purpose of the text; (3.) ask questions
about the ideas presented in the text; and (4.) look for evidence in the text that could support
your evaluation of whether the author’s arguments are agreeable or not.
GUIDES IN WRITING A READ TEXT

• PREWRITING
List down ideas and information that you will include in your reading response paper by
answering the questions for writing a summary and consolidating your response notes or
reactions you have written while reading the text you would like to respond to.

• DRAFTING
Write two part essay. The first part will be the summary of the text followed by the second part
which is the response. You should not forget to support your response with textual evidence.
• REWRITE YOUR DRAFT if you answered “NO” in the revision checklist below.
1. Have I identified accurately the writer’s claim?
2. Does my critique contain assertion?
3. Does my critique include textual evidence that will support my assertion?
4. Are my evaluations fair and clear?
5. Have I used transitions that can make my ideas flow logically and smoothly?
• Proofread your draft if you think that your essay needs no further revision, that is, if you have
conformed to the description pattern’s specific features. Do this by checking for spelling,
punctuation, format, and grammar errors.

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