Select, Organize, & Refine EVIDENCE

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

CONCRETE DETAILS

• Evidence becomes a CD, when you have done the following:

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

For texts longer than a page, you may want to combine small pieces of evidence kernels from different locations in the text. That is encouraged!

• Try to make it so that someone who hears it read out loud can’t tell where the quote starts and ends.

• Read the sentence out loud as if there was no quotation mark. It should sound like a fluid sentence.

• You probably aren’t going to start it with a capital letter

Look at these examples to help you get started:

Give it a try. Then check these examples to see how you can make yours better: