Citing Evidence:

When you are trying to make an argument about the text you are reading you should be able to make inferences and draw conclusions. And those must be proven with evidence.

Two types of arguments:

1- Explicit: stand in the text. meaning they are clearly stated in the text.

2- Implicit : based on clues and evidence in the text. meaning they are not directly stated but from choice of words they too can be proven.

when you are drawing conclusions your responsibility is to connect your conclusions back to explicit or implicit evidence.

bad example: “I have a feeling about this”

good example: “My feeling about this is” backed up with strong evidence.

example:

lets say that we are trying to prove that the captain is mean to the main character and changes throughout the book.

To prove this point we need to look closely at the details and dialogs details. and yourself where or which line can prove that point.

if you cant find evidence you should try to come up with another conclusion that you can find evidence for in the text.

“Captaine Bigsby is dismissive and rude to Eniola when she first joins the crew of pirate ship Albotross”

that’s an explicit evidence that you can use to prove he is mean and rude to her at the beginning of the book.

“On page 34 of "To the Burbling Deep,"

• 2:21Bigsby says to Eniola, "You there, what's her name!

• 2:24These portholes need to be scrubbed yesterday.

• 2:26Get to work!."

  we can also prove that he is mean and rude to her

• 2:45On page 225, after Bigsby tends to Eniola's broken leg,

• 2:48he tells her, "Eniola, that was some

• 2:51mighty fine pirating you did.

• 2:53You showed no fear when you punched that kraken,

here we can see that he is nice to her and she has humbled him.

These are implicit evidence he dosen’t literary say that he will be nice to her but from these word choices we can infer.

NOTE: remember to always support your evidence with reasoning of why that line not the other.