The Evaluation Argument marks the beginning of your research that will culminate

The Evaluation Argument marks the beginning of your research that will culminate in your Proposal Argument.
In it, you will take a more objective stance and evaluate the social issue you wrote your Narrative Argument upon. Moving beyond description, you will now make a claim about the social issue following the thesis formula:
(Your social issue) is (harmful/unjust /ineffective, etc.) because (give three or more reasons A, B, and C).
For example: Homelessness is harmful for society because it degrades the human personality of the rich and the poor, deepens cycles of poverty, and unjustly punishes traumatized and mentally ill individuals.
Once you’ve taken your principled stand, you want to give sound reasons for your evaluation! In it, you will attempt to penetrate beyond the obvious, or merely misinformed, view of an issue (such as that our growing homeless population is somehow lazy or morally deficient — the fact is, almost all are suffering from debilitating trauma of one kind or another). In this, we are taking our lead from Martin Luther King Jr, who wrote, “I am sure that each of you would want to go beyond the superficial social analysis which looks merely at effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.”
For the evaluation argument, therefore, we will seek to identify the underlying causes of our social issue. In our next essay, the proposal argument, we’ll take the next step to offer a solution for them!
Please note: the Evaluation Argument is an opportunity to step back and look at the broader scope of the issue in society, as well as allowing you to clarify and define what precisely the real underlying social issue is! This essay, therefore, will be an objective, researched argument with little or no use of the “I.” Instead of personal experience, the evaluation argument’s evidence will be based upon information from reliable, researched sources.
Once you have completed your rough draft utilizing 3 credible sources from your research and written a minimum 750 word essay with a strong introduction and an argument that follows the P.I.E. (Point, Information, Explanation) structure with MLA citations, you are ready to submit for peer and instructor review!