Choose Evidence to Support Claim

Read the claim and the supporting evidence.Claim: Businesses accrue productivity gains when they allow their employees to telecommute.Evidence: Studies have shown that those who work from home put in longer hours.Why does the evidence support the claim? Choose the analysis that better explains the connection.

• Telecommuters' longer hours are reflective of greater productivity

• Offering telecommuting also allows companies to attract better employees: those who are the most productive.

What is text evidence?

• the author's name and date of publication

• Your opinion in 3rd person

• textual reference from the reading that supports your claim (can be a direct quote or a paraphrase).

• A connection between your claim and evidence, explaining to the audience how the two relate.

What is a direct quote?

• recalling what the author said, and restating in your own words. *must provide an MLA citation.

• word for word from the author, used to support your claim. *must use "quotation marks".

• Providing the author credit for his/her work.

Where is an in-text citation located? (choose 2).

• Directly after your "evidence"

• Directly after your claim

• before the punctuation . ! ?

• Directly after your Tie-in/Elaboration.

Standard RI 7.8 is mostly about . . .

• Assessing claim, evidence, and reasoning.

• Finding support for a claim.

• Establishing best friends in a text.

• Finding the points on a plot diagram.

Pieces of text used to back up (support) a claim

• Claim

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Sufficient

A statement made by an author that asserts an author’s belief.

• Evidence

• Claim

• Reasoning

• Sufficient

The explanation the author gives to connect the evidence to the claim.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Sufficient

• Reasoning

To support a claim, you should have one or more of these, which tell why.

• reason

• counterclaim

• statistic

• counterargument

Which of the following best explains the role of evidence in supporting a claim?

• A) Evidence provides a counterargument to the claim.

• B) Evidence offers a detailed explanation of the claim.

• C) Evidence gives factual support to validate the claim.

• D) Evidence summarizes the main points of the claim.