Citing textual evidence

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What is textual evidence?

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a piece of information from the text

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Before you give the textual evidence, you need to remember to...

• put it in your own words
• explain what the evidence means
• write a conclusion sentence
• introduce or lead into the evidence

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introduce or lead into the evidence

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What does it mean to provide a direct quote?

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copy the evidence word-for-word from the text and use quotation marks

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What does it mean to provide a paraphrase?

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put the evidence in your own words as much as possible

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"Support" in the sentence: "Your evidence should support your answer."

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the evidence should help prove the answer

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When searching for a piece of evidence, you should be looking for...

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the best piece of information to support the answer/statement

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What does every direct quote need to have?

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Quotation marks