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hello my name is Arielle and welcome to my series on how to write an essay today we're talking about evidence and citation this video is brought to you by Squarespace important to the tradition of essay writing is using other people's ideas and research to back up your own argument today I'm talking about evidence and citation because it is fundamental to the way that we write essays and to the way to strengthen your paper where can you find evidence now honestly evidence is everywhere you can find it in newspapers you can find it on youtube videos but your biggest bet is to go to your school's library website and do some research find some sources find people that are backing up the ideas that you're saying and this is where that originality comes from sure you're using other people's ideas to back up your own but what you're doing is creating a unique network of ideas finding all of these disparate ideas all to back up your new idea this is the reason I wanted to make this episode because this is the place where a lot of marks are lost when marking essays it's in the use and application of that evidence so number one make sure that whatever your evidence is is backing up your point and backing up your thesis statement although you might find a really interesting quote about your topic if it doesn't directly support what you're arguing you shouldn't use it secondly the placement of evidence is really important do not and I mean do not just drop it in randomly I'm kind of talking about this I'll just plop this quote in never do that your evidence should be well supported it's ridiculous maybe that your support needs support but it really does in our episode on essay structure we broke down how to construct a paragraph and think about that when you are putting in evidence so you have your topic sentence in a paragraph you make a point you then introduce some relevant evidence and then and this is the key key point you explain why your evidence is important never assume that your reader will know why you think that evidence was important if you do this I can assure you that you are going to get a better grade no I really don't think that our main aim in essay writing just be to get a better grade but I know it's really important to people and a lot of people ask me why didn't I do great on this paper I had evidence but if you don't back your evidence up if you don't explain why you picked it if you don't explain where it came from then it's useless and your final step when you're using evidence is to properly cite it I don't need to go on a whole spiel with you about how dangerous plagiarism is it may seem boring it may seem like an afterthought but what you're doing is respecting the academic tradition of sharing ideas you're covering yourself so that you don't get in trouble and you're making a way better reading experience for whoever your reader is it's really nice pleasant to read a well cited paper when I know exactly where your evidence came from when you've introduced your evidence correctly and when you have a nice bibliography page when you have the correct page numbers in the right place and you have a title page etc those things all make for a better reading experience which is what your reader and marker want so hopefully you've taken some good tips from this if I could just drive home two things it would be one always explain why the evidence you've chosen is important and to make sure to properly cite everything this series is brought to you by squarespace which I'm really excited about because they're a company I actually use and enjoy you can buy domains there and you can use gorgeous beautiful templates that will literally give you any kind of that you want if you need a portfolio if you need a static page I'm blanking on types of websites a shop you can make them with Squarespace so if you want to try a free trial go to Squarespace com for its life aerial and you'll get 10% off your first purchase let me know down below what is your current research area it's always fun to learn I hope that you found this helpful and I'll see you in the next video you