Evidence Cards

1. evidence
Cards
…Or where to put all of the research

2. DEBATE is about
Making an argument
and
Proving it
with evidence
what s the point?'

3. what’s on a card?
TAG: the thing you want to prove
SOURCE: Author/Publication and Date
QUOTE: the actual words said
in the source

4. Example
School uniforms reduce crime in schools (Affirmative)
(American School Board Journal Aug. 2006, Vol. 193, No. 8, pp. 24-27)
In 1995, Long Beach, Calif., became the first large urban school district to
require uniforms for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Five
years later, overall crime in the school district had dropped by 91 percent.
Suspensions were down 90 percent, sex offenses had been reduced by 96
percent, and vandalism had gone down 69 percent.
TAG
SOURCE
QUOTE

5. Example
Fewer babies are being born to undocumented immigrants
Sep11, 2015 Number of babies born in U.S. to unauthorized
immigrants declines
By Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn PEW RESEARCH CENTER
About 295,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant
parents in 2013, making up 8% of the 3.9 million U.S. births that year,
according to a new, preliminary Pew Research Center estimate based
on the latest available federal government data. This was a decline
from a peak of 370,000 in 2007.
TAG
SOURCE
QUOTE

6. The evidence
gives
Support
forthe points
you want
to make