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When you analyze a text for meaning, citing evidence can help you gain a deeper understanding of what you read. Authors include evidence to support and convey ideas in a text. You can use evidence to support your own ideas about a text, to find meaning, to determine the author’s purpose, to support claims, and to answer questions about information in a text.
Evidence can be used to support explicit ideas in a text or to support inferences drawn from a text.
The North Atlantic right whale is among the rarest of all marine animals. Image Credit: NOAA
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