Citing Evidence from a Text

What does it mean to cite evidence from a text?

• To summarize the text without providing specific details

• To make up information not found in the text

• To quote or reference specific parts of the text to back up statements or arguments.

• To ignore the text completely

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Why is it important to cite evidence when writing?

• It adds credibility, allows verification, and gives credit.

• It makes the writing longer

• It limits creativity

• It confuses the readers

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How can you incorporate evidence from a text into your writing?

• Ignore proper citation

• Use evidence from a different text

• Quote directly from the text, provide proper citation, and analyze how the evidence supports your argument.

• Summarize the text without quoting directly

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Give an example of citing evidence from a text in a paragraph.

• Use emojis instead of actual evidence

• Include evidence without any citation

• Refer to a completely unrelated text

• Include a direct quote or paraphrase along with the author's name and page number in parentheses.

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When citing evidence from the text, you need:

• quotation marks

• correct punctuation

• the text

• your opinion

• the title of the text

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What evidence from the text supports your answer to ?

• These were to most important elections in South Africa's history?

• They collected the information any way they could.

• Ruth's Cafe was a small restaurant in a rural village. People of all ages gathered there that day.

• They turned their heads to strain their ears toward the corner of the cafe. There, a small box squawked out the results.

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What is the best way to cite evidence from a text?

• summarize

• paraphrase

• in quotes

• all of the above

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What evidence from the text supports your answer to #1?

• This was only a small part that he was auditioning for, but there must have been 50 guys waiting here.

• The script was sitting in his lap, and his left knee was rapidly bouncing up and down, impossible for him to control. He finally held it down to stop it.

• As he read, Frank tried to quietly say his lines to get a sense of rhythm of the character's speech.

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What does it mean to "cite" text evidence?

• Use it to answer the question

• Give the source of the quote (page or line number and author)

• Put it in your own words

• Explain it

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When citing evidence from a text, the proper way to punctuate it is:

• italics

• underlined

• in quotes

• none of the above

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