Citing Textual Evidence
Evidence found in a text.
What are quotes?
Topic sentence starts with a.
What is the title and author?
The reason why an author writes a text.
What is author's purpose?
What the author feels, thinks, or believes about the topic.
What is author's point-of-view?
R Stands for
Restate
Direct evidence from the text.
What is explicit evidence?
The number of key details to include in your summary.
What is 3-5 key details?
Author's can add their opinion to the text.
What is an author's bias?
Pronouns "I, we, us, mine"
What is first person?
A stands for
Answer
"According to paragraph 3, the author states,"
What is citing where you found your quote from?
You can't copy and paste quotes from the text into your objective summary.
What is paraphrase?
Author writes a text to persuade, inform, entertain, or reflect.
What is author's purpose?
Pronouns like "she, they, him, hers, his"
What is 3rd person?
C stands for
Citation
Making a conclusion about a text.
The last part of the topic sentence.
What is the central idea?
Author can use positive, negative, or neutral words.
What is the author's language?
Pronouns "you, your"
E stands for
Elaborate
If you don't give credit to the author, it could be called
What is plagiarism?
The last thing you do when putting together the entire objective summary.
What are transitions?
Facts, statistics, examples, and opinions used to support an author's argument.
Author's point-of-view helps us understand the overall...
RACE stands for
Restating, Answer, Cite, Elaborate