Guidelines for production and evaluation of
restaurant review paper
Content
Essay assignment: A Restaurant Review
Where do you go when you go out to eat? What places do you recommend to friends
who ask about a good meal? What is your favorite restaurant? Have you ever read a
review of your favorite restaurant or one which you had recently visited for the first
time? Did you agree with the reviewer or disagree? I think we are all restaurant
reviewers because at one time or another we have all recommended or advised against
going to eat a certain place based on our experiences of it. So here is some very difficult
homework to do: Go eat at a local restaurant. Then, having done your experiential
research, write a review of the place. The essay will be approximately 500-750 words in
length (at least two full pages, no more than four).
Use concrete, descriptive details to “show” your experience of this restaurant to your
readers. How will you describe the food and the service and the atmosphere so that your
readers can experience, through your words, what it is like to eat at theis particular
restaurant?
Mastery of skills/completion of course objectives
 Invent, research, plan, compose, revise and edit to produce satisfactory papers
(2.2)
 Compose papers based on experience, observation, or research (2.3)
 Tailor writing to the needs of the audience (2.4)
 Apply the strategies of narration, exposition and persuasion/argumentation
appropriately (3.1)
 Use the basic form of the academic essay and other forms of written electronic
and print communication (3.2)
 Use various print and/or electronic resources for publication (3.4)
Editing skills should reflect college-level work and be relatively free of such
errors as
Sentence Boundaries
Punctuation
Mechanics
__Fragments
__Comma use/misuse
__Spacing
__Run-ons/comma splices
__Semicolon/colon misuse
__Capitalization
__Awkward constructions
__Hyphens
__Dash (not hyphen)
__Quotation marks
Diction
__Correct verb form/tense
__Subject/verb agreement
__Appropriate word choice
Style
__Metadiscourse
__Lack of clarity
__Lack of fluency
__Inappropriate vocabulary
Other editing problems