Exercises — Week 1: Week 1 — Citing Strong Textual Evidence
1 hands-on tasks. Do them in order; each one feeds the Canvas item it names.
30 min · written
1. Evidence Ladder: Ranking Support for a Claim
- Choose any article or short story from your English or IT class this semester and write one clear claim about it in a single sentence.
- Copy four sentences from the text that seem connected to your claim, exactly as they appear, with quotation marks and paragraph numbers.
- Rank the four sentences from strongest to weakest support, and label each one as specific, relevant, and sufficient, or explain which of those it lacks.
- Write a short paragraph of 5–7 sentences that states the claim, introduces your strongest quotation, and explains in your own words how it proves the claim.
Turn in / bring: Your claim, the four ranked quotations with labels, and your finished evidence paragraph, uploaded as one document through the exercise drop on this page.