Essay #2 – Evaluation
Mrs. Greene
English 101
Project: This will be a 3-4 page paper on Evaluation. (Please note, it MUST be at least 3 FULL
pages, and starting onto the fourth).
Pages 298-301 of your text explains what evaluation writing is.
You will research 1 possible career that you are interested in pursuing. Your paper will evaluate
this one career in great detail. You will need a thesis/judgment about this career at the end of
your introduction.
Your description of your career should answer some of all of the following questions, but should
not be limited to these:
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What education do you need (or not need) in order to become it?
What is the starting salary? Average salary? High salary?
What is the job? What does it involve? How many hours a day, a week?
Do you work with people or alone?
What is the market for the career like right now? What will it look like in the future;
in other words, will there be a need for it?
What equipment must you operate? What should you know before applying for a job?
Are internships possible to learn it?
The second half of your paper can focus on the career for you personally (so, yes, you can use
“I” in the second half).
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Why do you think this would be a good career for you?
Could you do this career until you retire?
Would you want to move up in this career? If so, how?
What goals would you set while in the career?
What would be important to you while working this career?
Does the career support your martial and family goals too?
How will the career help you as a person? How will it help you better your
community and world?
While these questions should be looked at and answered, do not simply list facts. Your paper
must flow smoothly with clear transitions and thoughts. Make sure you have a catchy
introduction and a solid conclusion. Answer the questions using vivid adjectives, adverbs, verbs,
and nouns. I want to understand everything there is to understand about your career. I should not
be left with any unanswered questions.
Your paper MUST be in MLA format. Additionally, you must have at least 2 SOURCES in
MLA format. 1 source may be from a website, and the other from books, newspapers,
magazines, or journals (online ones are fine, too). Remember to use the information from the
sources WITHIN THE BODY OF THE TEXT and also in the WORKS CITED at the end of the
paper. Use your Little Brown Handbook for MLA information, or the following websites:
OWL at Purdue: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/search.php
St. Louis Community College PDF file:
http://www.stlcc.edu/Student_Resources/Academic_Resources/Writing_Resources/MLA
_Guidelines/MLA%20Guidelines%20for%20Documentation%207th%20Ed.pdf
You need at least 2 short quotes your paper. Be sure to transition into your quotes. Here is an
example of a transition and a citation:
According to a popular job outlook website, “Public school teachers must be licensed,
which typically requires a bachelor's degree and the completion of an approved teacher
education program” (“BLS” par. 1).
In the above example, the “According to…” is how I transition into the quote. There are
numerous ways to transition or lead into a quote.
The (“BLS” par. 1) is my in-text citation. You will need the author’s last name, but if there is no
author, you can use the website name or title as I did above. You also need the page number, but
if it’s an online source, you use the paragraph number. Here are some more examples:
(Smith, 5).
(“One Great Website,” par. 6).
A great place to start for research on jobs is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational
Outlook Handbook on this website: http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Keep copies of all sources. You will need these to do your works cited, plus it is can take a lot of
time to go back and find source information again after you have already found it once.