How to use evidence from the text? Flashcards
Ways you can use evidence:
- Quotations from the text
- Examples from the text
How to select the most relevant quotes?
To make a good relevant quote it has to be:
-Relevant to the claim you are making about the text.
-The best piece of evidence to prove that the writer is implying these ideas.
-Implying the ideas you are saying the text is presenting (rather than stating them directly).
How to embed your quotes?
-To successfully fix quotations into your sentences, only quote the important key words or phrases.
-If you need to change the tense used in your chosen quotation so that they make grammatical sense in your sentence, you can.
DONT FORGET: Don’t forget to still use quotation marks around the words or phrases you have taken directly from the text to show they are not your own words!
Expanding and developing your point:
After you have used evidence to prove your point, move on and expand your idea further. This doesn’t just involve explaining what the quotation means and how it has been used to imply the point you are making – it involves developing your first point further.
