CHAPTER 3

SUPPORTING DETAILS: FACTS, QUOTATIONS, AND STATISTICS

Presented By:
Dara Windiasari
Dedi Haryadi
Idris Hisbullah Huzen
Neneng S Yulinza
Puspita Arianti
Academic writing normally requires that you support your ideas and opinions with facts, statistics,
quotations, and similar kinds of information. You get these kinds of supporting details from outside
sources such as books, magazines, newspapers, Web sites, personal interviews, and so on

Fact
Facts are objective statements of truths s
Ex: - Women live longer than men
- Cigarettes are addictive
Sometimes even facts need proof.

Opinions are subbjective statements based

on a person's beliefs or attitudes
Ex:
- Men are better drivers than women
- Smoking is a bad habit
- English is an easy language to learn
Opini
ons
Your readers may not believe that women live longer than men, or they may
not agree that cigarettes are addictive. You have to use specific supporting
details to prove that these statements are true facts. Kinds of specific
supporting details include examples, statistics, and quotations

Photographs of ultrathin fashion models send the

OPINION wrong message to girls andyoung women
FACT, BUT NEEDS PROOF Fashion models are unnaturally thin.
The average model weighs 25 percent less than the
SPECIFIC SUPPORTING DETAIL average woman of thesame height
 USING OUTSIDE SOURCES

There are three ways to insert outside information into your own writing :

You can quote it

You can summarize it

You can paraphrase it

 Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas as if they were your

own, and it is a serious offense.
• When you use information from an outside source without
acknowledging that source, you are guilty of plagiarism
• One way to avoid plagiarism is to always put quotation marks around
words that you copy exactly (You do not need to use quotation marks
if you change the words)
 Citing Sources

Citing a source is a two-step process :

Insert a short reference in parentheses at the

end of each piece of borrowed information.
This short reference is called an in-text citation.

Prepare a list describing all your sources

completely. This list is titled "Works Cited" and
appears as the last page of your paper.
 IN-TEXT CITATION

• According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, "Communities don't have the
resources to allow police to patrol intersections as often as would be needed to ticket all
motorists who run red lights" (“Q&A").
The abbreviation "Q&A" in parentheses at the end of this sentence is the first element of the
title of an article from which the words in quotation marks were copied. There was no author.
If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the workscited list at the
end of the essay, report, or paper and find this entry.

ENTRY IN WORKSCITED LIST

• Q&A: Red Light Running." Insurance Institute for Highway Safety June 2003. 26 Feb. 2004
<http://www.hwysafety.org/safety-facts/quanda/rlc.htm>.
This entry tells us that the complete title of the article is "Q&A: Red Light Running." It was
published online in June 2003 by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The date 26 Feb.
2004 is the date the writer found the article while researching the topic. The information in
angle brackets < > is the Web site address (URL) where the article can be found.
More complete information on how to write in-text citations and works-cited lists is found in
Appendix E: Research and Documentation of Sources.
 QUOTATIONS

Quotations from reliable and knowledgeable sources are good supporting details.
There are two kinds of quotations:

Direct
• Copy another person's exact words (spoken or
Quotation
written) and enclose them in quotation marks.

Indirect • Report the person's words without quotation

Quotation
marks, but with a reporting expression.
• Such as: according to XYZ ... or XYZ believes that ...
Direct Quotation
Copy another person's exact words (spoken / written) & enclose them in quotation marks.
 Reporting Verbs & Phrases

To introduce borrowed information – direct quotations, indirect

quotations, or statistics – use the phrase according to or a reporting verb
such as the following:

* Assert * Insist * Report * Suggest

* Claim * Maintain * Say * Write

* Declair * Mention * State

 Punctuating Direct Quotations

Follow these general rules for punctuating direct quotations.

Put quotation marks around

information that you copy word for
word from a source. Do not use
quotation marks with paraphrases,
summaries, or indirect quotations. Example:

According to Sports Illustrated,

Normally, place commas (and
periods) before the first mark and
also before the second mark in a
pair of quotation marks.
Eliminating drug use from Olympic
sports would be no small challenge."
"Eliminating drug use from Olympic
sports would be no small challenge,”
according to Sports Illustrated.
 If you insert only a few quoted words into your own
01 sentence, don't use commas.
• Charles Yesalis believes that "a large percentage"
of athletes who have set new records have done so
with the help of performance-enhancing drugs
(qtd. in Herper, par. 6).

When you add an in-text citation after a quotation,

02 put the period after the closing parenthesis mark.
• The Institute of Global Ethics warns, "The
Olympics could well become just another money-
drenched media promotion in which contestants
will be motivated less by athletic glory than by
lucrative future contracts” (Kidder, par. 7).

2 IMPORTANT EXCEPTIONS
Punctuating Direct Quotations

Capitalize the first word of the quotation as well as the first word of the sentence.
Ex: Dr. Donald Catlin, director of a drug-testing lab at UCLA, stated, “The
sophisticated athlete who wants to take drugs has switched to things we can't test
for" (qtd. in Bamberger and Yaeger 62).

If you break a quoted sentence into two parts, enclose both parts in quotation marks and
separate the parts with commas. Capitalize only the first word of the sentence.
Ex: "The sophisticated athlete who wants to take drugs,” stated Dr.Donald Catlin,
director of a drug-testing lab at UCLA, "has switched to things we can't test for“
(qtd. in Bamberger and Yaeger 62).
 Punctuating Direct Quotations

If you omit words, use an ellipsis (three spaced periods).

Ex: According to a 1997 article in Sports Illustrated, "The use of steroids . . has spread
to almost every sport, from major league baseball to college basket ball to high
school football" (Bamberger and Yaeger 62).

If you add words, put square bracket saround the words you have added.
Ex: One athlete declared, "The testers know that the [drug] gurus are smarter than
they are" (qtd. in Bamberger and Yaeger 62).

Use single quotation marks to enclose a quotation within a quotation.

Ex: A young athlete openly admitted, "My ethical inner voice tells me, 'Don't use
drugs,' but my competitive inner voice says,'You can't win if you don't'“ (Jones).
 Punctuating Direct Quotations

If your quotation is four lines or longer, do not use quotation marks. Introduce this
type of quotation with a colon and indent it one inch from the left-hand margin.

Example:

A national news agency reported these shocking survey results:

Several years ago [when] 198 athletes were asked if they would take a
performance-enhancing drug if they knew they would NOT be caught and
they would win, 195 said they would take the drug. The second question
revealed a more frightening scenario. The athletes were asked if they would
take a drug that would ensure they would win every competition for five
years and wouldn't get caught, but the side effects would kill them – more
than HALF said they would take the drug ("2000 Olympics," par.12).
Indirect Quotation
The speaker’s / writer’s words are reported indirectly, without quotation marks.
For this reason, indirect quotations are sometimes called reported speech.
Changing Direct Quotations to Indirect Quotations
 STATISTICS
What is Statistics?

Statistics (n) The Practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in
large quantities , especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole
from those in a representative sample. (Oxford Dictionary)

Statistics is an information based on a study of the number of times something

happens or is present, or other numerical facts. (Cambridge Dictionary)

Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, displaying,

analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. (wikipedia.org)

Statistics is a characteristic of a sample. Generally, a statistic is used to estimate

the value of a population parameter. (statrek.com)

Statistics is branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis,

interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data. (Merriam-Webster
)
The Simple Explanation

Statistics is a way to read some data and information

based on graph, charts, and tables.

What is The Purpose?

Make our data are more simpel, more meaningful with graph
based on fact from reliable sources in order to support our
argument as effectively as possible

Why do We Need Statistics ?

• Statistics are good supporting detail

• Statistics provide powerful evidence that can help us support our explanation or argument
• Statistics refers to data that we need and looking for which already been analyzed
• Number is one containts include in statistics. So, number and statistics are powerful pieces
of evidence that can effectively strengthen any argument.
Type of Statistics & Data ?

• Government Agencies (Standarized reporting and information collection from a

wide variety of institutions)
• Research Organizations
• Professional Organizations
• Individual Research

Reading Data
EXAMPLES

• According to World Marketed Energy, world energy consumption has been steadily
increasing. Currently, the nations of the world use between 30 and 200 quadrillion BTU
(British Thermal Units) annually. By the year 2025, consumption is projected to increase to
623 BTU, an increase of 50 percent from the year 2021
• The Largest consumers are the industrialized countries, and the nations who consume the
least energy belong to the EE/FSU (Eastern Europe/ Former Soviet Union) Group.
Developing Nations consumed approximately the same amount of energy as EE/FSU
(Eastern Europe/ Former Soviet Union) Group Until 1988, when the energy of use
developing nations began to increase
• By 2025, it is projected that their use will nearly equal that of industrialized nations

How To Read Graph?

1. Decide what main idea the graph ilustrates, and write that idea as a topic
sentence.
2. Write five to ten supporting statements, using the statistical information
shown in the graphs.
3. Use a reporting verb or phrase to identify the source of your statistics.
4. Write an-in text citation in the proper form at the end of your paragraph.
 NOTE !!

It is important to us to note that formatted

charts, graphs, and tables are protected under
copyright. We can’t reproduce another
researches become our works, we must need
permission from the original copyright holder or
holders.