-To support you and your arguments. Use more than yourself.

-To make specific claims:

-Establish facts (size, number, wording of law, dates, events)

-Evaluate (good or bad)

-Connect Ideas (causes, results, intervening variables)

-Predict Future (specify future situation)

-Motives (people like or dislike, why people behave like they do)

-Person/Author (quote people and groups, not titles and publications)

-Qualifications

-Date

-Title(s)

-Page Number

-Other needed information

-Prep it: read, edit tags, underline, organize

-Use it in round: as part of ARE, read author-quals-date-text

-Flowing and following

-Evidence vs. no evidence

-Demands for perfection

-Analyze superior/inferior evidence based on:

-Gives reasons

-Nature or lack of qualification

-Potential Bias

-Strength of wording

-Date and its relevance

-Compare to tag

-Same referent as argument

-Formal indictment with counter evidence