Cite textual evidence - tenth grade

CITE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

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You will need to cite textual evidence to support your ideas or your opinion.

You have to develop reading, writing and thinking skills, in order to build up your own ideas and make claims about a text.

STEPS

Analyze the question and think about its possible answer.

Read the whole text. Skipping some parts of it to answer just the questions is a mistake.

Go back to the text and identify the specific parts that justify your answer.

STEPS

• Write the author’s exact words.
• You can use expressions like: according to the text, as the author mentioned, on page… the author stated, etc.

Use other resources to complement the answer and have another point of viewabout the topic of the text.

Remember that, if you use the exact words of the text, you have to use quotation marks and tell where you found the information.

• Finally, you can use color coding to highlight the specific information that answer the different questions.

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