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Evidence charts save you time.

Evidence charts are an easy way for you to make sure, before you start writing, that you have identified sufficient relevant evidence for your paper.

If you are missing evidence or if you have weak warrants, that absence will be more visible in an evidence chart.

You fill out an evidence chart with the ideas and evidence that you plan to use for your paper. Your claim and your warrant do not need to be in full sentence; likewise, you do not to include all the material that an essay requires: introductions, transitions, conclusions, and the like.

Your evidence chart is just the bare-bones of your essay's evidence-based argument.

You do need all of your cl/ev/wa structures, but neither the claim nor the warrant need to be fully fleshed out.

So, let's imagine an evidence chart ONE of your paragraphs for question X of HW 3. (in a real evidence chart, you'd need ALL of your cl/ev/wa paragraphs)

claim	evidence from weitzer and from Vanity Fair	warrant
focuses exclusively on negative	Weitzer explains that in the oppression paradigm, prostitution is thought of as “domestic violence” and “rape that’s paid for.” The article celebrates organizations that “rescue young women from ‘the life’.” All the girls the article reports on were hooked on drugs to, as the author claimed, “numb out the nightmare their lives had become.”	By excluding any positive aspects or non-exploitive sex work, the article fits the exploitation narrative.

claim

evidence from weitzer and from Vanity Fair

warrant

focuses exclusively on negative

Weitzer explains that in the oppression paradigm, prostitution is thought of as “domestic violence” and “rape that’s paid for.”

The article celebrates organizations that “rescue young women from ‘the life’.” All the girls the article reports on were hooked on drugs to, as the author claimed, “numb out the nightmare their lives had become.”

By excluding any positive aspects or non-exploitive sex work, the article fits the exploitation narrative.

Notice how SHORT the entries are in the CLAIM and WARRANT sections.

Here's a blank evidence chart to fill out for your first paper (ms-word file delivered to your desktop). When submitting, name it (using your name):

hussein_sa_evidence_chart_1.doc

Here's how the fully-written out paragraph based on that chart might look when you finally wrote it. Here, the claim and warrant are fully written out (notice the reason behind claim is in the claim itself) and the paragraph includes the necessary transitions (in bold):

(CL) The Vanity Fair article “Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door" clearly fits within the oppression paradigm described by Ronald Weitzer because of its exclusive focus on the negative aspect of the industry. (EV) For example, Weitzer explains that the advocates of the oppression paradigm describe prostitution of any sort in the most extreme language, including “domestic violence” and “rape that’s paid for.” Likewise, the article celebrates organizations that “rescue young women from ‘the life’.” Similarly, all the girls the article reports on were drugs addicted, the author claimed, to “numb out the nightmare their lives had become.” (WA) The article features only brutal stories of girls who did go through hell, and drops the names of organizations dedicated to rescuing workers as opposed to others that aim to improve the conditions of sex workers. The oppression paradigm follows the same thinking – that all sex workers are victimized by the consumers of the industry. By not acknowledging that there is or even may be another side to sex work, the article adopts the oppression paradigm.