Tagging And Citing Evidence

© Mark BatikJesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas

What is evidence?

Anything you can use in furtherance of your argument.

Data Policy debate is evidence intensive

Means that you have to find information that supports your claims

Terminology

Card—Piece of Evidence Cut—find evidence and cut out of

article or book Tag—Introduces the evidence Citation—Shows where the evidence

is from Brief—organized evidence

What’s a Tag? Short statement or sentence that

introduces the evidence Says either

What argument the evidence makes; or What the main point/idea of the evidence

is Tags are read before you read the

evidence Tags should be short but make sense

What’s a cite

States where the evidence is from Includes:

Author Qualifications Date published Publication URL if from a website Database name if from a database

Citation examples Ikenson, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at

Cato & hates antidumping laws, 7 (Daniel, “A new protectionism: dashed hopes and perhaps worse for US trade policy,” October, http://www.freetrade.org/node/784)

Irvine, professor of economics at Concordia University and an associate researcher at the Montreal Economic Institute, 2008 (Ian, Protectionism is to blame for the food crisis, http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/05/27/protectionism-is-to-blame-for-the-food-crisis.aspx)

James Gilligan, professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for the Study of Violence, and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence, ‘96, Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes, p. 196