Tagging And Citing Evidence © Mark Batik Jesuit 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,  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, ve/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