Citing Evidence Review HW

Multiple Choice

Text evidence is information from the text that ________ your writing.

• proves

• cancels

• changes

• erases

Multiple Choice

From now on, as you write, picture your teacher saying:

• Who cares?

• That's awesome!

• Move it

• Prove it

Multiple Choice

What are the two ways you can integrate evidence into your answer?

• Parachuting or directions

• Paraphrasing or direct quotations

• Paraphrasing or writing

• Direct quotations or texting

Multiple Choice

Paraphrasing is when you write someone else's ideas in...

• quotation marks

• their exact words

• your own words

• Spanish

Multiple Choice

Using a direct quotation means you write someone else's ideas in...

• quotation marks

• their exact words

• your own words

• Spanish

Multiple Choice

When you quote someone's writing, you should use ___________.

• quotation marks

• quotients

• questions

Multiple Choice

To cite your information means to tell ________ you got your information.

• who

• when

• where

• why

Multiple Choice

To cite paraphrased information, just use the word "_________" and don't use quotation marks!

• that

• cat

• there

• then

Multiple Choice

A good rule of thumb is to use _____ direct quotations in your essay.

• 120-121

• 1-2

• 0

• 1,000,000

Multiple Choice

We must always cite our information when we write a direct quotation.

• True

• False

Direct Quotes

When we cite evidence directly from a text,

We place it inside quotation marks " " and copy it word for word.

Because we didn't write it, we give the author credit by adding their name to the end in parenthesis ( ) and we make a note about which page number the quote can be found on.

Multiple Choice

Which direct quote is correct?

We went down the stairs in silence, no sounds but the shards of glass crunching beneath our feet and the impatient honks of horns coming from the traffic-packed street below the expressway.

~ From The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman, page 189.

• "We went down the stairs in silence. Shusterman 189"

• "We went down the stairs in silence." (Shusterman 189)

• We went down the stairs in slience (Shusterman)

Multiple Choice

Which direct quote is correct?

We went down the stairs in silence, no sounds but the shards of glass crunching beneath our feet and the impatient honks of horns coming from the traffic-packed street below the expressway.

~ From The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman, page 189.

• "And the impatient honks of horns coming from the traffic-packed street below." "Shusterman 189"

• "They walked on broken glass"

• "impatient honks of horns coming from the traffic-packed street below." (Shusterman 189)

Paraphrasing Evidence

If we don't want to use a direct quote, we can paraphrase, or summarize the evidence.

When you paraphrase, you write a summary. Because you are summarizing someone else's work, you add their name to the end in parenthesis ( ).

Multiple Choice

Which paraphrase is correctly cited?

• Old man Crawly's granddaughter was blind (Shusterman 84).

• "Old Man Crawley's granddaughter was blind"