Writing An Evaluation

In our daily lives, we are continually evaluating objects, people, and ideas in our immediate environments. We pass judgments in conversation, while reading, while shopping, while eating, and while watching television or movies, often being unaware that we are doing so. Evaluation is an equally fundamental writing process, and writing assignments frequently ask us to make and defend value judgments.
Evaluation is an important step in almost any writing process, since we are constantly making value judgments as we write. When we write an "academic evaluation," however, this type of value judgment is the focus of our writing.
The criteria of an effective evaluation would be:

• Self-questioning, an ‘internal dialogue’, deliberating between different views of ones own behaviour
• Take into account the views of others and weigh these against own judgements.
• Recognise how prior experience, can interact with the development of own behaviour.
• Clear evidence of being able to stand back from the experience, in order to evaluate it.
• Evidence of learning from the experience.
• Recognition of a personal frame of reference can change with the reception of new information and the effect of time passing.
• An ability to review ideas.