When you begin with RTW, you will always use a direct quotation from the reading to back up your claim. Ask yourself:
Find the best sentence in the reading to provide evidence for the claim.
- 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.
- 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.