Writing Assignment #1 Critical Review of a Restaurant or Book Choose a restaurant you know well and have visited several times, or a book you have read. You may look at resources available in your local newspaper or on the World Wide Web for ideas and how to write reviews with the appropriate rhetorical tone. Examples: Restaurant reviews: http://www.zaRat.com/ Book reviews: http://www.nytimes.cornipages/books/review/index.html We have also included a sample restaurant review and a sample book review on the next pages for your convenience.
Make sure you clearly pass judgment in the introductory paragraph and then make sure you write an explicitly clear sentence at the beginning of each body paragraph that strongly supports and illustrates your thesis statement.
Keep the tone authoritative, keep the sentences crisp and clear, eliminate all passive voice, add transitions that both join ideas and create the feeling of movement forward in the essay (avoid using just “First, Second, Third”, etc. at the beginning of each paragraph.