1. Slides Against Humanity
How to Use the Assertion-Evidence Structure with Different Forms of Visual Evidence

2. An Assertion-Evidence Structure slide must have three parts.
Full-Sentence Claim
Visual Evidence for the Claim
Citation for Evidence

3. Things, numbers, and other people’s words are all forms of evidence which translate well visually.
Things used as visual evidence
Numbers used as visual evidence
Other people’s words used as visual evidence 3

4. During the Civil War, Greeneville tried to secede from Tennessee to rejoin the Union.
Miller, K. D. (2017, September 25). Union Convention Historical Marker in Greeneville, TN [Digital Photograph]. Retrieved from
Miller, 2017
CC BY-SA 2.0 4

5. We hear a lot about teen suicide, but suicides peak in middle age.
United States Center for Disease Control. (2016, June 30). Deaths: Final Data for National Vital Statistics Reports, 65(4). Retrieved from
CDC, 2016, pp. 44 5

6. Samuel L. Jackson does not like snakes very much, especially while traveling.
“I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday through Friday plane.”
–Samuel L. Jackson, as Neville Flynn
Berenson, C. (Producer), & Ellis, D. R. (Director). (2006, August 18). Snakes on a plane [Motion picture, television edit]. United States: New Line Cinema.
Snakes on a Plane [TV Edit], 2006 6

7. Files used in this presentation are available for download.
Berenson, C. (Producer), & Ellis, D. R. (Director). (2006, August 18). Snakes on a plane [Motion picture, television edit]. United States: New Line Cinema. 7

8. References
Berenson, C. (Producer), & Ellis, D. R. (Director). (2006, August 18). Snakes on a plane [Motion picture, television edit]. United States: New Line Cinema.
Miller, K. D. (2017, September 25). Union Convention Historical Marker in Greeneville, TN [Digital Photograph]. Retrieved from
United States Center for Disease Control. (2016, June 30). Deaths: Final Data for National Vital Statistics Reports, 65(4). Retrieved from