Paper , Order, or Assignment Requirements

Statement: This is a topic sentence that states a main point or central claim. This is often a statement that presents one of your supporting points and is directly related to your essay’s thesis and argument.
2) Evidence: This is Evidence or Data that supports this claim. If you do not have original data or the essay does not require original data, you may wish to use a quotation or reference from one of your texts as evidence. (If you are writing using a non-fiction text, you may want to quote the thesis of the text as your evidence.) Avoid excessive quotations by paraphrasing when necessary, but use at least one quotation per text.
3) Explanation: This is an Explanation or Analysis of your Evidence (item 2) that interprets the evidence and explains how your evidence supports your claim (item 1). This portion of the paragraph frequently requires several sentences as it may be used to both interpret the evidence you just presented and to link your interpretation of that evidence to the larger argument that was introduced in the thesis of your essay. This is the part of the paragraph in which you may compare or critique different aspects of your evidence. Remember the term analysis refers to the “separation of a whole into its component parts.”
4) Significance. Explain WHY the Supporting Point is significant by explaining HOW the Supporting Point proves the Thesis.