Text Evaluation

Let's try to check your skills on evaluating if a text is well written based on its properties. Read the
text thoroughly and evaluate it based on its properties through answering the process questions. 

“When Staying Home Means Saving Lives”

By: E.R.D. Vins
“Stay Home! Save Lives!”
This is the thunderous sound of 2020; the plea of the frontliners to escape the threat of the
unseen enemy, the CoViD-19 (Corona Virus Disease). President Duterte, the government
officials, the personnel from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Department of
Health (DOH), the policemen are shouting to stay home so that the rising number of positive
cases of CoViD-19 will not increase which can lead to death.
Staying home is being advised in the meantime that vaccine for the virus is still on the process
of producing. However, it resulted both positively and negatively in all aspects of the people’s
lives. Since they stay in their homes, they have enough time to sleep and rest, and develop new
skills or use the talents and skills that were not practiced anymore. They have also quality time
with the members of the family to chit-chat as a result of home quarantine. Hence, parents are
able to monitor their children, teaching them household chores and other skills. Furthermore, less
carbon dioxide is being emitted thereby making the air and the sea clean. It seems that the seas
and the sky have relaxed from pollution. Consequently, people have the time to take care of their
plants at home, and plant vegetables in their backyard. Thus, they have also the time to meditate,
reflect, and pray to God that He will protect them from this pandemic.

On the other hand, it also yielded disadvantages physically, mentally, socially, economically,
and spiritually. Due to not allowing people to go out of their houses except for very important
reasons, they became sedentary and less active physically. That is why, others really see to it that
they can have physical exercise even if at home. In as much as they wanted to go out, they could
not go the places where they want to go like churches, malls, beaches, and other places.
Drastically, it also affected the livelihood of many of the people as they were not allowed to
work and that they just relied on the government subsidy. Thus, it can be realized that there is a
great anxiety the CoViD-19 pandemic brought that even if they wanted to look for a living, they
were not allowed because their safety should be prioritized. It became the waterloo of people
around the globe.

Even if there are pros and cons of staying at home caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, indeed
the situation is telling that everything has changed, and that humanity is experiencing
uncertainties and vulnerabilities. Therefore, by staying home one could not be infected by the
virus, and it is a great help for the frontliners who battle to save the lives of those infected by the
virus.

Process Questions:
a. What is the dominant paragraph organization that is being used in the text? Is it sequential
order, spatial order, complexity order, or listing order?
b. Is the text coherent? (Is there a topic sentence? Are the major ideas placed in a separate
paragraph?)
c. Are the sentences cohesive? What transitional devices are being used?
d. What can you say about the language use? What is the style of writing: formal or informal,
written or spoken? Are there some denotative or connotative language, figures of speech, or
idiomatic expressions?
e. Does it follow the rules of mechanics in writing (spelling, punctuation marks, abbreviation,
indention, and capitalization)?