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Also known as Concrete Details (CDs), your evidence provides specific details from the text to support your argument.
Also known as Concrete Details (CDs), your evidence provides specific details from the text to support your argument.
Return to your Final Draft Notes and look for the evidence that matches the patterns on which you've based your claim.
Let's say you want to use the evidence you collected from pages 1 and 2. You have to determine what in your notes is evidence, and what is analysis that you've naturally done as you read or during the discussion about the text.
In this case, you added the actual evidence, "the teachers didn't like me," during the discussion when you provided a quote to support your original conclusion that he is smarter than everyone (which was your analysis as you read). So that quote would be the kernel of your first CD.
Refining evidence and keeping a DIRECT QUOTATION
Refining evidence and keeping a DIRECT QUOTATION
“The teachers don’t like me. They seem to get irritated whenever I point out their mistakes” (1).
“The teachers don’t like me. They seem to get irritated whenever I point out their mistakes” (1).
He feels disliked by his teachers, noting that they seem to “get irritated whenever [he] point[s] out their mistakes” (1).
He feels disliked by his teachers, noting that they seem to “get irritated whenever [he] point[s] out their mistakes” (1).
Our unnamed main character introduces his story by directly telling readers that he feels disliked by his teachers, noticing that they seem to “get irritated whenever [he] point[s] out their mistakes” (1).
Our unnamed main character introduces his story by directly telling readers that he feels disliked by his teachers, noticing that they seem to “get irritated whenever [he] point[s] out their mistakes” (1).
Refining evidence by PARAPHRASING
Refining evidence by PARAPHRASING
The main character discovers a tunnel and decides to go in even though it’s against the rules (3-4).
The main character discovers a tunnel and decides to go in even though it’s against the rules (3-4).
After he completes his rounds as a street sweeper, the main character discovers a tunnel and decides to go in even though it’s against the rules (3-4).
After he completes his rounds as a street sweeper, the main character discovers a tunnel and decides to go in even though it’s against the rules (3-4).
A note on ORGANIZATION
A note on ORGANIZATION
When working with a novel or a play, your best bet is to organize evidence chronologically and to make sure you have a balance of details from the beginning, middle and end of the story.
Why?
Because in order to understand one thing, you need to know what came before. And when you’re thinking about characters you have:
motivation → conflict → change.
Theme (or the meaning of the story) is developed over time and is built off of the characters developing (or not).
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