Essay Evaluation Analysis

Essay title: What is a good life? 

Brief summary:  A more comprehensive description of a good life,and why many people can be bias. 

Authorial credibility: David Christian, Maps of time: An introduction to big history

Claims: We should distinguish more clearly between renewable and nonrenewable components of a good life, and develop a more realistic and sustainable society for our children and their children. 

Evidence: The economic growth has been portrayed as the key to a good life, which is not sophisticated enough. Restraint is source of well-being as well as consumption. The growth steers us towards ecological chaos, thus we should develop a realistic way to build a better life and a more sustainable society. 

Audience: all readers.

Tone: formal, serious, 

Organization: Background- main topic- argumentation 1-example- argumentation 2 - Transition paragraph- Conclusion