Readers, I wonder if I'm being entirely responsible when I tell you that I'm about to hand you an extremely dangerous tool.

Granted, it's a language tool. But I do hope you won't destroy the world with it! It's called TEXT EVIDENCE. And you can use it to convince anyone of almost anything. It's when you take details from a text—and that can be examples or ideas or whole sentences—and you connect them to a point you're making.

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