Citing Evidence Practice

Which piece of evidence could BEST be used to prove this claim:
The government SHOULD decide what students eat for lunch.

• School lunches, on average have only about 550 calories;however, lunches brought from home have about 850 calories.

• The GAO report said that students in one district refused to eat school lunches for three weeks.

• The rules make lunches cheap for students, but they cost schools money.
  

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 .

To quote or reference from a text brought forward as support

• Answer

• Cite

• Infer

• Compare

To give the facts or information used as support for whether a belief or proposition is true and valid.

• Citation

• Contrast

• Analyze

• Evidence

Why do we cite evidence?

• To make our essays longer

• To prove our claim/point/idea

• To paraphrase

True or false: It's okay to drop in a quote all by itself as EVIDENCE, without any of your own words before.

• True

• False

facts and/or information (quotes, statistics, graphs, etc.) presented in support of a claim or value statement.

• evidence

• connotation

• conclusion

• relevant

What are the bare minimum things you need to include when you're using quotes from a source?

• The author/speaker's name

• A description of the author's credentials

• A punctuation mark

• An introductory phrase

• Quotation marks around your direct quotes

Make reference to; to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.),

• cite

• analysis

• textual evidence

• conclusion

After giving evidence to support your ideas, you should...

• cite another piece of evidence.

• move on to your next ideas.

• explain how the evidence supports your idea.