Including Textual Evidence

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.

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 supports that Kathleen is brave?

• Even slight miscalculations could send the Vulcan cruiser thousands of miles off course.

• Kathleen might never see her parents again.

• Kathleen reassured them with a confident look as she logged onto the navigation computer.

• Something could go wrong during takeoff. 

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."

• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendence rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

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.

Which of these phrases would be good to use to cite text evidence?

• In conclusion,

• According to the text,

• In my opinion,

• In other words,

How can textual evidence strengthen an argument or analysis?

• By ignoring the text completely

• By providing irrelevant examples from other sources

• By making assumptions without any evidence

• By providing specific examples and quotes from the text to support the argument or analysis.

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.

Why do we have textual evidence 

• To prove a claim

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• because your teacher says so

• to express an opinion

anything that students can read, write, view, listen to, or explore, including books, photographs, films, articles, music, art, and more

• text

• evidence

• implicit

• analysis