evidence

Examples of evidence in the following topics:

• Supporting Your Thesis

  • Consequently, the majority of your paper will be dedicated to presenting and analyzing evidence that supports your claims, making it clear to the reader how the evidence relates to the claims.
  • You should also know which pieces of evidence you want to use to back up each claim.
  • You cannot just present a piece of evidence and assume that your work is done.
  • When analyzing your evidence, be as thorough and clear as possible.
  • You may have great evidence, but if your reasoning is sloppy or flawed, you can render that evidence meaningless to the reader.

• Assembling Your Argument

  • The first thing you should assemble is evidence.
  • Also be careful about how reliable your evidence is.
  • Make sure that every conclusion corresponds to some piece of evidence.
  • Warrants are the way in which you link evidence to conclusions.
  • What evidence will your readers find most compelling?

• Step 3: Outlining

  • You'll be able to see whether you have enough evidence to support a given claim, whether your claims support your larger thesis, how to link your arguments and counter-arguments, and what order of presented evidence feels most powerful.
  • Do the same with the other claims and pieces of evidence.
  • Now you can rearrange the pieces of evidence as necessary to go with the most appropriate claim. 
  • For example, the third piece of evidence, above, might not be necessary for that particular claim, because the other evidence is strong enough.
  • Read your thesis, claims, and evidence out loud to a friend.

• Arguing with Evidence and Warrants

  • A good first question is what kind of support you want to emphasize in your paper: evidence or warrant?
  • Obviously, your paper will include both evidence and warrants that justify the conclusions drawn from it.
  • Warrants are the quality of connection between your evidence and what you claim it concludes.
  • It depends on articulating your point of view clearly, then providing strong evidence to support it.
  • List and define argument methods based on evidence, warrant, position, and proposal

• Establishing Why Your Claims Matter

  • Follow through with evidence that grounds your argument in the real world or, alternatively, the academic world.
  • As you look for evidence, it may be helpful to decide what type of evidence would be the most appropriate.
  • Supporting claims with evidence: Let's return to the essay about renewable energy, which argues for increased funding for solar research.
  • Since the argument favors a real-world outcome, pragmatic evidence is the most persuasive variety.
  • The pragmatic evidence works well.

• The Importance of Addressing Opposing Views

  • Take note of their rationale and use of evidence.
  • What evidence do they look at?
  • How do they interpret that evidence?
  • What evidence do they look at?
  • How do they interpret that evidence?

• Generating Further Questions

  • The most difficult question will commonly be addressed at the very end of the paper and act as the culmination of the paper's argument, drawing together claims about the text, historical evidence, and pertinent theoretical writing.
  • Do I have any evidence that I need to analyze further?
  • Does my analysis of evidence make it clear how that evidence supports my claim?
  • Are there any alternative interpretations of evidence that I need to address?

• Approaches to Your Body Paragraphs

  • You'll generally begin each paragraph with its topic sentence, then you'll move to the evidence that led you to this claim before ending with a concluding sentence that weaves claim and evidence together.
  • The facts come in the form of evidence that you'll present in the next sentences.
  • Instead, write your topic sentence and look over the evidence you've gathered for that claim.
  • Just some of the ways to present evidence are as follows.
  • The evidence can both prove the problem statement and begin to reveal the thesis-related solution.

• "So What?"

  • What should you do with evidence that affirms solar energy's value, but is not related to the environment?
  • Try to make a connection, however indirectly, but if you come across evidence that just will not fit in with your new argument, get rid of it.
  • This piece of evidence made it all the way through the revision process: "1.
  • You can do this by choosing a more specific audience, focusing on specific costs or benefits, or imposing limitations such as restrictive time frames, geographic ranges, or types of evidence for your project.

• Introduction to the Thesis Statement

  • The key element of a thesis statement is that it is not a fact: it is a claim, something that you have to use evidence to prove.
  • You'll want your writing to boil down to, "This is my claim, here's why it matters, and here's evidence to support it."
  • The most important element is that you are making an original claim and then using facts and evidence to support it.
  • A thesis statement can be a hypothesis, which you set out to prove through evidence.
  • Once you have a thesis statement, you'll want to gather evidence both for and against the statement.