Response Question TSW 375-402

Jessica Sumpter

English 484

April 2, 2008

Chapter 10

In Chapter 10, Teaching the Rhetorical Analysis Neman discusses the topic of whether or not to teach students to include evaluative responses in analysis. The concept of evaluative comments is still a new one to me, and I have trouble distinguishing between evaluative and non- evaluative comments. Aren’t all comments evaluative to one degree or another? Neman only gives one example concerning The Scarlet Letter that I feel was very obvious. What strategies are there to teach our students to recognize evaluative comments that are more sophisticated than “I thought it was interesting”?