For this essay, you will need to create an evaluation of Daughter from Danang or The Gangster We Are All Looking For.
Page Length: 3 pages (do not go over 3.5 pages—less is more. Make every word count, and repeat this
mantra: “Quality, not quantity.”)
Page Format: MLA style formatting and document formatting. See course webpage for examples.
Process Points: Your process points account for 5% of your essay grade. If you do not have the process
stages ready in class when they are due, you will lose these points on your essay grade. Peer review
accounts for another 5% of your essay. If you are not in class on peer review day with your essay, you
will lose those an additional 5%.
I incorporate process points because I have years of experience watching students procrastinate on
the very most basic aspects of their essays. I am also teaching you a technique to break down writing
assignments into workable steps—this is something you can use your whole life.
Making an Evaluation
For this essay, you will need to create an evaluation of Daughter from Danang or The Gangster
We Are All Looking For. When you write an evaluation essay, you are making an overall judgment of
your topic, backing up your judgment with explanation and support, and then finally returning to your
evaluation in the conclusion—either by restating it, or adding a new twist to it. Unlike a personal
narrative of a remembered event, the supporting paragraphs in the heart of your essay come from
evidence rather than personal memory.
A sample evaluation:
The Gangster We Are All Looking For deliberately confuses the reader. It incorporates dream-states and
real-life states to give us a glimpse into the narrator’s child-like mind.
Your essay has to contain the following sections:
1. Introductory paragraph that either gives background to your subject or states your evaluation.
2. At least three body paragraphs that support your evaluation through examples from the text or
film. You can place your thesis in the beginning of the second paragraph if your first paragraph
gives background information.
3. A conclusion.
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