{"id":75,"date":"2017-05-04T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=75"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:33:42","slug":"chapter-1-evidence","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/chapter-1-evidence\/","title":{"raw":"Gathering Evidence","rendered":"Gathering Evidence"},"content":{"raw":"Every close reading relies on evidence. Without evidence, a writer is simply stating their opinion. As such, writing an essay begins well before you start writing with the process of gathering evidence. In fact, very little essay writing is actually \u201cwriting.\u201d Rather, most of the essay writing process is:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Gathering evidence<\/strong> (reading the text and taking notes)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Pre-planning<\/strong> and<strong> pre-writing<\/strong> (outlining and brainstorming)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Research<\/strong> (of definitions, other scholars' concepts, statistics)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><b>Drafting\u00a0<\/b>(early attempts at thesis paragraphs and body paragraphs that will be revised as the process continues).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWe will outline how to gather evidence by modeling the task of slowing down and recording all the observations that are to be had within a text. For a brief tutorial on the basics of finding evidence within a text, watch <strong>Video 1.1: Walk Through Self Evaluation<\/strong>, then read the subsequent text.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/q_ih2RaKnMw","rendered":"<p>Every close reading relies on evidence. Without evidence, a writer is simply stating their opinion. As such, writing an essay begins well before you start writing with the process of gathering evidence. In fact, very little essay writing is actually \u201cwriting.\u201d Rather, most of the essay writing process is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gathering evidence<\/strong> (reading the text and taking notes)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pre-planning<\/strong> and<strong> pre-writing<\/strong> (outlining and brainstorming)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Research<\/strong> (of definitions, other scholars&#8217; concepts, statistics)<\/li>\n<li><b>Drafting\u00a0<\/b>(early attempts at thesis paragraphs and body paragraphs that will be revised as the process continues).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will outline how to gather evidence by modeling the task of slowing down and recording all the observations that are to be had within a text. For a brief tutorial on the basics of finding evidence within a text, watch <strong>Video 1.1: Walk Through Self Evaluation<\/strong>, then read the subsequent text.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Chapter 1 Video 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q_ih2RaKnMw?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-75","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75\/revisions\/1737"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}