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Evidence and Inferences - The Keys to Successful Analysis

Author: Renee Deger

Textual Evidence (and Inferences)

To properly analyze text and prepare an analysis with a thesis, it's important to understand the key difference between text-base evidence and inferences. This video introduces some important vocabulary terms and layers explains text-based evidence, and how it differs from inferences in text. The video explains how to go about identifying inferences by using prior knowledge when reading text.

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Use Evidence and Analysis to Support a Thesis

Pulling together text-based evidence and inferences to support a thesis for analysis in a composition is what it's all about. This video helps you put together all of the pieces and explains how to use evidence and analysis, which includes inferences, in order to support a thesis.

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Essay Question

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