Siting Textual Evidence

Why is it important to provide textual evidence?

• It makes your paragraph longer.

• It allows your reader to get the important facts from the article without reading the whole thing.

• It shows that you know what you are talking about.

• It makes your claim stronger and helps prove your point.

Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim:
High school students should be required to wear uniforms.

• When adding everything up, a school uniform could end up costing more than $200.

• A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."

• According to the text, "At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendance rates went up, and behavior incidents went down" (Paragraph 1).

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

textual evidence is

• using quotations, summaries and paraphrasing from a text to support a position

• proof

• a detailed examination the elements or structure of something

What does explicit mean?

• A guess

• Evidence that is directly stated in the text

• A conclusion based off of facts and reasoning

WHY do we quote evidence in our writing?

• Quoting provides credibility and ensures writing is fair and accurate.

• Our teacher said to.

• To offer multiple perspectives.

• To make the essay longer.

Your teacher has asked you to find RELEVANT evidence for your argument. This means...

• Seeking out pieces of evidence in the text that have the strongest, most specific details that prove my point.

• Something in the text that has " "

• A quote on page 114

• A quote with really powerful words in it.

What are the different ways to cite textual evidence?

• Direct quotes, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

• Copying, quoting, and referencing.

• Referencing, summarizing, and copying.

• Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

What is textual evidence?

• Your claim.

• Proof from the text to support your answer.

• What the author thinks about a topic.

• An explanation in your own words about your claim.

What is textual evidence?

• You claim.

• Proof from the text to support your answer.

• What the author thinks about a topic.

• An explanation in your own words about your claim.

Why do we have textual evidence 

• To prove a claim

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• because your teacher says so

• to express an opinion