Given what we've been reading, this ought to come as no real surprise to anyone:  you're going to write a review, or pair of reviews, for this first assignment.  You may write a review of a film, a CD, or a video game.

Remember, your goal is to generate a worthwhile evaluation of whatever it is that you choose to review.  Go through your class notes, and review Good Reasons to remind yourself what you need to include to make such an evaluation successful.  Then, begin to work your way through the process of writing itself so that you can craft your piece(s), not simply dump them onto the page once and be done with it.  (As we'll have discussed ad nauseum, this can never do your own thinking and opinions justice.)

I will be evaluating these pieces not on whether or not I agree with your opinion -- I'm betting that most times I won't! -- but instead upon the quality of your evaluation itself, from the support you give to your major assertion to the way in which you construct your sentences, paragraphs, and argument as a whole.

In addition, you must demonstrate at least one completed heuristic strategy -- other than the one you did in class -- (more than one is probably not a bad thing) alongside the final copy of your evaluation essay.  This invention piece(s) must be included with your review or the review itself will not be graded.

Length:  1000 words, either as a single, long review or as two 500-word reviews (of separate items).