definition evaluative language
In order to express an opinion or point of view, a writer must use evaluative language. This means using words that show a judgement of a person or thing, or by showing emotion.Evaluative language goes beyond facts that everyone would agree on (e.g. tall, short, 20 centimetres, black, orange).Instead, evaluation presents opinions, judgements and points of view.etâs continue to use the example of the NAPLAN persuasive text such as âReading books is better than TVâ and imagine that our thesis agrees with the proposition (i.e. we love books!). Judging people. When we write a persuasive text, we can make our judgement clear about types of people.