In reply to this post, please write a short paragraph (five to seven sentences) explaining why it is important to use textual evidence in college writing assignments and some of the MLA guidelines for using it, e.g., why ICE is so important, using signal phrases, MLA in-text documentation format, introducing and integrating short quotes versus long quotes, etc., etc., etc.
In college writing it is important to use textual evidence to better support your ideas or argument. When the reader reads your writing they get more of an idea of what you are trying to say. It is important to cite where you got the information so that the original writer can get credit for it. ICE ( introduce, cite and explain) , is also important in college writing. Introducing a quote is important so that the reader knows that you are about to use someone else’s writing as an example. Citing where the quote came from is important because the reader should know where it came from and it also gives the original writer credit. Explaining your quote is also important, so that the reader can understand what you are trying to prove with the quote. Signal phrases also is like introducing a quote. You signal that you are about to use someones example like saying “according to.” . This is all important in college writing so that a professor or student could easily read your paper without feeling any confusion and they can understand where you are getting you’re evidence from.
Thank you, Melanie!
Textual evidence is when you have evidence from a text that you are able to use to help support your claims, your ideas and arguments you may have. When you want to use someone’s else words or saying, you usually quote their text so that you know you aren’t the one who came up with that saying, but the author/original speaker had said that. You can then explain on that quote to help you support your claims, ideas, and arguments. You can also just paraphrase what the author said and put it into your own words so you aren’t plagiarizing. This is how textual evidence is useful in college writing.
Thank you, Sheldon!
It’s definitely the case that we, college students, lack expertise in many of the subjects we are tasked with writing about. Due to this lack of knowledge, we cannot expect our personal experiences to be enough, by themselves, to sufficiently support any of the claims we make in our writing. However, we can overcome this issue by relying on textual evidence to support our claims. There are three ways we can use textual evidence. We can summarize, paraphrase, or quote the text. While using textual evidence it is important to remember the ICE guideline of introduce, cite, and explain. By introducing a quote, the reader will know what he or she is reading. By citing a quote, the reader will know where exactly we pulled that excerpt from. And by explaining a quote, the reader will be able to understand how the quote relates to our claims.
Thanks, Kyle!
It’s important to use textual evidence because it furthers your support details. By using textual evidence, with the application of ICE, you can show the reader not only where they can refer to, but also your comprehension of the topic. Also, with the issue of plagiarism, it’s important that you cite your sources and quote them correctly with methods such the MLA guideline to give credit to those who deserve it. In college writing and beyond, it’s important to use textual evidence and cite them correctly because plagiarism is heavily condemned and can lead you to trouble with schools and teachers, and others in the writing community because it harms your reputation both as a student and a writer. Signaling phrases are important, as well, because they indicate that you understand the topic and the steps you must take in order to use textual evidence to prove your point.
Thanks, Mohamed!
I Think it is very Important to use textual evidence in college writing or any type of writing because you can’t just win an argument alone without anyone backing up your claim and your side of the story, and that’s what textual evidence is for it is for backing up your reasoning and giving it more legs to stand on so it can be stronger and harder to take down. I also think it even more important to follow the MLA or any guidelines to being with because that is telling you what to do and if you don’t follow those guidelines carefully you can go from a 80 essay without our taking the guidelines in affect to a 60 essay by just one of the guidelines that you didn’t take in account. Which is kinda crazy to think about in my opinion
Thanks, Chadel!
Textual evidence is very important in collage writing or in any other argumentative papers. Using textual evidences doesn’t just make your argument strong, it also give give reader a reason to believe it. Citing the evidences are equally very important to show how strong these backups are. For example, if we talking about a disease and use a evidence from doctors then it gives a better attraction to the argument then anyother theoretical evidence. Citing also give credit to the person who’s evidence been used. If the evidences are not well explained then theses evidences doesn’t mean because different people might have different opinion. So it is very important to explain why that evidence should matter.
Thanks, Emran!
I think textual evidence is important in collage writing because in most papers that we were going to write need support evident. Specially in argumentative essay, textual evidence can makes your argument stronger. Textual evidence can use for mentioning important ideas that hardly attraction to the topic of article. The strategy ICE (introduce, Cite, and Explain your evidence) is very useful in collage writing because it introduce what the author’s point on the topic, and quote material along with citation and explain who this quote is coming from as well as the relationship with the topic. It makes the reader more easy to understand about the topic.
Thanks, Alex!
Textual evidence is when you have evidence from a text that you are able to use to help support your arguments , it also show that we have process what someone written. Text evidence is about justifying. There are four types of textual evidence: referencing, summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting. The types are listed from using general evidence (referencing) to very to specific evidence (quoting). The most common type of textual evidence for literary analysis responses is quoting.
Thanks, Chemar!
It is important to use textual evidence in college writing assignments. When you are writing an assignment, most of the time your professor or audience does not have the article you’re writing about. Using textual evidence helps your audience understand what you’re talking about. Also, it backs up your statement and supports any of your opinions. ICE (introduce, cite and explain) is a big part of college writing assignments. Use quotations to introduce your quote so readers know it’s someone else’s words. Cite it to give credit to the speaker. Then explain the quote to show you understand what the quote means and how it is related to your writing.
Thanks, Anika!
It is important to use textual evidence in college writing because it helps support your argument. In addition, it lets the reader know that you understand the material. Using textual evidence makes the writer think more. It is also important to use quotation marks when using textual evidence so that there is no plagiarism. Furthermore, the MLA (Modern Language Association) guideline is important because it makes it easier for readers to navigate a text.
It is important to use textual evidence in college writing because it helps support your argument. In addition, it lets the reader know that you understand the material. Using textual evidence makes the writer think more. It is also important to use quotation marks when using textual evidence so that there is no plagiarism. Furthermore, the MLA (Modern Language Association) guideline is important because it makes it easier for readers to navigate a text.
Thanks, Sam!
It is important to use textual evidence in college writing because it helps support your argument. In addition, it lets the reader know that you understand the material. Using textual evidence makes the writer think more. It is also important to use quotation marks when using textual evidence so that there is no plagiarism. Furthermore, the MLA (Modern Language Association) guideline is important because it makes it easier for readers to navigate a text.
In college writing assignment it’s very important to use textual evidence to better explain your ideas. A college writing needs textual evidence to make it easy to understand for the reader.Some MLA guidelines such as ICE (introduction,cite and explain) are also useful in college writing. In every college writing ,the main idea needs to be introduced first then you use example to support your ideas. It is really important to explain the source of the informations you provide in your writing .it helps the verify the credibility in case we need to. Quoting is also important to better make reader know that you really understand what you saying.
Thanks, Demba!
Textual evidence is super important to use in college writing as it adds validity to what you are trying to say to your audience. Textual evidence can be and should be used in all types of writing as it backs up your point or argument to make it stronger. However, when using textual evidence you can’t just put it out there without introducing, explaining, citing, and using other MLA guidelines. When paraphrasing, quoting, or summarizing you must always attribute as a reference to the authors to give credit and explain why it is there. With this you make your point clear for your audience and proves why it should be there.
Thanks, Tyra!
It’s very important to use textual evidence in college writing because it can make our argument stronger. ICE(Introduce Cite and Explain)is also important in college writing because writer use outside information to support their point. Some writer use quote to support their point too. Whenever we use outside informations and quotes it is important to give credit to the author. It is also important give signal phase prior to the quote. Signal phase could also be understood as a brief explanation of the quote. So a signal phase helps reader understand the upcoming quote.
Thanks, Hui Lin!
It’s very important to include textual evidence in college writing assignments because with out it you have no evidence to back up your main idea/ thesis. Using evidence also helps the reader understand what you’re writing about .Using quotes will make the reader understand what part in the text you are writing about and why this translate to your main idea.The ICE method helps a lot with making your body paragraphs well put together and organized. ICE is a great method to help the writer make sense and not be all over the place.
The purpose of a university paper is to present the reader with an idea or opinion on a topic and to support that thesis with sufficient evidence. The writer I think should be well organized, clear and authoritative when presenting his thesis and support material. In what consists the ICE (Introduce, cite and explain) We can not simply use a phrase of someone and not mention who has been the phrase, is to lie to ourselves with a work of others.
Textual evidence is very essential to college writing because it helps back up the writers points to help the reader understand better. Without evidence you can have great points but they wont be credible and because of this you need evidene of studies and other things that help prove what you are saying, that way the reader can believe you. ICE helps the writer be organized because the way I think about it is you give context of whats going, then evidence of the general perception and finally you give your own opinions with the analysis. This helps your paragraphs easier to read and be very organized.