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4928235-747395Prove it!00Prove it!-688340-676910How do you know?00How do you know?Citing Textual EvidencePretend you are a lawyer. When you are presenting a case to a jury, you must provide evidence to the jury so that they believe you. When you are writing, it is your job to provide your reader with textual evidence to support your argument or claim.What is textual evidence?Textual evidence used to support an argument/position when writing. The evidence is gathered from a text. It may include direct quotes from the text and inferences drawn from the text.Remember Slow and Steady Wins the RACES (Use your strategies)Strategy 1: Stealing from the Question {Restate the question} Strategy 2: Textual Evidence /Personal Connections/Figurative LanguageStrategy 3: Closing Statement Strategy 4: COPSCapitalizationOrganizationPunctuationSpellingTextual Evidence Sentence Starters/Evidence Based TermsOn page ________, it said that…The author wrote…An example is…In the text it said…I know because…For instance…From the reading I know that…According to the text…In the text it said…The graphic showed…From my reading I know that… ................
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