Evidence

After identifying the thesis/claim, evidence of different

categories should be developed to support the main idea:

▫ Reasons ▫ Interviews
▫ Examples ▫ Experiments
▫ Facts ▫ Testimonies
▫ Cases ▫ Personal experiences
▫ Details ▫ Observations
▫ Anecdotes
▫ Statistics
▫ Expert Opinion
▫ Surveys ▫ Quotations
▫ Questionnaires ▫ Proverb
1. Anecdotal Evidence
2. Testimonial Evidence
3. Statistical Evidence
4. Analogical Evidence
1. Anecdotal Evidence

a. It is grounded in personal, secondary, or

incomplete evidence
b. Provides weak support for an argument
evidence since an anecdote cannot prove a
general statement, so avoid treating a single
case as proving a general point.
c. Is unconvincing when it is a broad example
being used to support or oppose a very narrow
claim.
2. Testimonial Evidence

Provides moderately strong or supportive

evidence IF testimony is given by
credible experts or trustworthy authority
(which means: respectable credentials
alone establish the fact that we should
accept the testimony without question)
3. Statistical Evidence

a. It provides reasonably strong or

supportive evidence
b. it gives reference to evidence from
experiments or large-scale data
collection
c. it summarizes, indexes, or models
general phenomena
4. Analogical Evidence

a. Provides strong or supportive evidence

b. Analogic evidence allows a researcher to

explain either by comparison to a known
phenomenon or common metaphor
For more details, check BB WEEK 4:

• Theoretical Background (in-class) Types

of Evidence