Also known as Concrete Details (CDs), your evidence provides specific details from the text to support your argument.

Remember the patterns you created? Now you're going to select the most relevant pieces of evidence that fit into the patterns you’ve formed and support your overall claim. You will transform these raw pieces of evidence into your concrete details (CDs).

Once you have your kernels of evidence selected and placed where you want them to be...

Select the most important part of the quote (if you have chosen to use direct quotations) and paraphrase the rest.

Additional things to consider:

• • • If the quotation includes tenses or pronouns that don’t fit, use [brackets] to change them so that they fit with your narrative or just start the direct quote later.
      

    • Be careful not to analyze the meaning of the evidence right now

EXAMPLES

Here are two different examples using the exact same quote.

Remember that the revision process is 99% of writing, so you will have to work with your original attempts to get it the way you want it.
Here are some revision EXAMPLES:

Here is another revision example using 2 different quotations in a single CD