LESSON 10

• Evidence


  Proof, a fact that helps you know something is true
• Textual evidence


  Using specific examples from a text (such as quotations) to help support your own claims and ideas
• Textual evidence


  • Gives your words validity and strength, proving that you did, in fact, read and understand that text for yourself
• Claim


  An assertion of belief about what is true or what should be
• Evidence


  Can be one or a set of facts, not the same as claims
• Characteristics of good textual evidence

  • Precise - based on accurate proofs like numbers, exact quotations
  • Descriptive - presenting a factual observation
  • Factual - based on truth
• Process in writing textual evidence

  1. State your idea

  2. Cite what in the text led you to that idea

  3. Explain the evidence
• Initial phrases for citing evidence

  • The author said...
  • It said on page...
  • According to the text...
  • A quote that shows this is...
  • For example...
  • This demonstrates _________ because...
  • Based on...
  • This is evident because...
  • For instance...
  • This proves because...
  • From the reading, I know...