I have learned that judgment is very important when evaluating. Evaluation is another important lesson that I have learned. This has also helped me become better at evaluating essays. Amitai Etzioni’s essay, Working at McDonald’s has helped me understand what evaluation simply is. Etzioni uses examples such as “McDonald’s is bad for your kids.” (par. 1) “We know that’s a strong topic sentence to start with. A few more examples are, “Closer examination, however, finds the McDonald’s kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. Far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self-discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.” (par.6) “The hours are often long. Among those 14 to 17, a third of fast-food employees (including some school dropouts) labor more than 30 hours per week, according to the Charper-Fraser study. Only 20 percent work 15 hours or less. The rest: between 15 and 30 hours.” (par. 12) If we look at these few examples, we should have learned that he almost has a [powerful] topic sentence which follows detailed details after. Etzioni is trying to show his point that working at McDonalds is bad for your children. I have also learned from the first writing activity on page 254, that we would start of analyzing his writing. Then we had learned how to use factual details. On the next activity we had learned reasoning/shared value. Next, we learned alternative judgment/cue refutation. This is where we had the choice to refute or concede against his argument. I learned the most from this activity because it was the simplest one to learn. It always follows a couple of words such as “although”, “but” and so on. I don’t feel one hundred percent confident on asserting a judgment because I have only