What you’ll learn to do: evaluate activities to find evidence in support of a claim

Once a working thesis statement is in place, your essay has begun to establish a claim–something the project is stating to be true. No matter how elegant the claim itself is, though, it’s only a small piece of the writing task. A claim by itself is powerless to influence a critically-thinking audience, and you should assume that any audience reading your work will consist of critical thinkers.

Returning to the Journey

If we revisit the “writing process as a journey” metaphor, the finding evidence stage is often one of the most rewarding stages. Now that the destination’s been determined, we need to know what will be necessary to get us there. Locating evidence will help us identify all the resources we need for our writing “trip.”