When you begin with RTW, you will always use a direct quotation from the reading to back up your claim.   Ask yourself:

• How do I know that my claim is true? 
  
• What did the author write about my claim? 

Find the best sentence in the reading to provide evidence for the claim. 
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• Introduce the quotation with a signal phrase:  According to Mitchell, “……”
• Signal phrase verbs should be in the past tense for APA style:  “Mitchell reported….”  
• Be sure to include the page number in parentheses after the quotation. 
• If you don’t want to use the whole sentence, you must indicate where you have omitted words.  Use the ellipsis (. . .) to show where there is information omitted. 
• The sentence still needs to be grammatically correct, so you may need to adjust the signal phrase or insert a word in brackets [      ] to make it work.