CITING EVIDENCE AND ASSERTIONS

• Citing is mentioning evidence from a text in your writing.
• Text Evidence uses specific examples and ideas from a text to help support and further define your own claims and ideas.
• General Statement is a claim that needs to be proven. It presents the topic of a paragraph, essay, or book.
• Assertion is a statement used to make a declaration or to express strong belief on a particular topic, often without evidence.
• Renaction is an action taken in response to something. Reacting to assertion is an essential skill in language learning. 
• Basic Assertion - A statement used to express the writer’s feelings, beliefs and opinions directly.
• Emphatic Assertion - It conveys sympathy to someone, comprised of 2 parts (recognititon of plee and support fot the other person)
• Language Assertion - involves the first person pronoun “I,” and is useful for expressing negative feelings.
• Language Assertion - It is called I-Language because it focuses on the writer.