Citing Textual Evidence Remediation

​Steps to Cite Textual Evidence in Writing

1. State claim.

2. Explain claim.

3. Research relevant and credible sources.

4. Use textual evidence from sources by quoting or paraphrasing.

5. Use in-text citations and document sources.

6. Explain connect or support your claim and evidence with logical reasoning.

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​Step 1: Identify the correct text evidence from what you've read

• Then, use this format: "text evidence goes here"(Source of the info goes here).

• ​Correctly CITE the answer with (author, paragraph or page number).

• ​For example: "text evidence" (Stine 22).

• If author is known, Always use author's last name and page number...(Goldstein 25)

• ​If it is a reading passage or excerpt use the paragraph number...(Para 1)

​Step 2. Write a final thought to CONNECT or further explain your answer using logical reasoning.

​When we are citing text evidence...you need to use a DIRECT quote in those quotation marks " "...it needs to be the exact words the author used, or you're misquoting them...and that's bad!!

(If it helps, maybe try to copy and paste the exact words that you want to use as evidence)

​When we cite evidence directly from a text,

We place it inside quotation marks " " and copy it word for word.

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Because we didn't write it, we give the author credit by adding their name to the end in parenthesis ( ) and we make a note about which page number the quote can be found on.

​If we don't want to use a direct quote, we can paraphrase, or summarize the evidence.

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When you paraphrase, you write a summary. Because you are summarizing someone else's work, you add their name to the end in parenthesis ( ).