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Questions
Cite some observations on the
promotional video?
What specific evidences was
showed to persuade us to
choose Philippines?
Q4-LESSON 3
DETERMINING
Reading and Writing
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
In
formulating assertions and counterclaims
about a text, it is important that you support
your statements with textual evidence.
Textual evidence is information gathered
from the text that supports your assertion or
counterclaim about the text.
Determining Textual Evidence
 To better evaluate the author’s argument, you should
be able to determine the evidence from the text. This
will allow you to validate the assertions of the author
and your counterclaims as a response to the reading.
 Evidence is defined as the details given by the author to
support his/her claim. It reveals and builds on the
position of the writer and makes the reading more
interesting. Evidence is crucial in swaying the reader on
your side. A jury or judge, for example, relies on the
evidence presented by a lawyer before.
Evidence can include the
following:
facts and statistics (objectively
validated information on your subject);
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opinion
from
experts
(leading
authorities on a topic, such as researchers
or academics);

personal anecdotes (generalizable,
relevant, and objectively
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The following are the
characteristics of god evidence:
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unified;
relevant to the central point;
specific and concrete;
accurate; and
representative
In expressing your judgment
about the text…
First, state your idea about
the text.
Second, to determine
evidence from the text, look
for clues and keywords that
support your idea about the
text.
Next, quote or
paraphrase the part of
the text that helped you
come up with your idea.
Then, use quotation marks
to quote a part of the text.
If it is from a book, indicate
the page number at the
end of your sentence.
Lastly, express how the
quote supports your
idea.
Types of Textual Evidence
Paraphrasing is
restating the
text in your own
words.
Some of the starter phrases to give
credit in your paraphrase are:
The text said that…
 The author of [text] stated that.
 According to the text,
 A detail from the text that
supports this is
 An example from the text is
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Summarizing is
restating the text in
a shorter way using
your own words.
Referencing is
mentioning a
specific section
of the text.
Quoting is stating
a part of a text in
the exact way it
was written.
The following are the possible
sentence starter for quoting
evidence:
 [Author’s name] wrote, “__”
 The author of [text] wrote,
“__”
 On page ___, the author
stated, “___”
 This is shown when the author
says, “_
Support
your statements with
textual evidence to come up with
strong or solid arguments, and
make your ideas more credible.
You can come up with good
textual evidence by selecting the
most relevant section of the text
that
strongly
supports
your
statement about the text.
Always look for clues
and keywords that
support your evaluative
statement/s about the
text.
Everything we claim or assert
needs proof or evidence. An
educator by the name of Dr.
All de Guzman suggests that
we should express our claims
immediately beside or next to
the support.
Thank You
and God
Bless