Sufficiency now means spread
- Evidence is sufficient when its quantity and quality provide apt support for the line of reasoning.
- For a claim about a whole novel, apt support has to come from more than one part of it.
- Four moments from four different sections prove a pattern; four from one chapter prove a chapter.
Four quotations from page twenty do not prove a claim about a four-hundred-page journey.
For a claim about a whole novel, sufficiency requires...
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Spread is what turns a moment into a pattern.
The six purposes still choose the evidence
- Evidence illustrates, clarifies, exemplifies, associates, amplifies or qualifies a point.
- In a whole-work argument, the qualifying piece is the one students omit and the rubric rewards.
- One scene that complicates your reading, acknowledged, is worth more than a fourth that repeats it.
The purpose students most often omit in a whole-work argument is...
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One scene that complicates your reading is worth more than a fourth that repeats it.
Effectiveness is still commentary
- Evidence is effective when commentary explains a logical relationship between the evidence and the claim.
- Four scenes listed and none explained is the commonest shape of a weak open-question essay.
- Three scenes with commentary beat five without, every time.
Listing five scenes without commentary is stronger than explaining three.
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Evidence is effective only when commentary explains its relationship to the claim.
Four scenes from one chapter prove that chapter, not the work. For a whole-work claim, sufficiency requires spread — evidence from separate parts of the text is what turns a moment into a pattern, and a pattern is what a thesis about a novel needs.
Does this evidence set support a whole-work claim?
Sort each set by what it can prove.
On the open question, list the scenes you remember precisely, then find the ____ they support.
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That is recursion used deliberately, and it protects you from an unevidenceable thesis.
Recursion in the planning minutes
- The process is recursive: the interpretation can come from the evidence or the evidence from the interpretation.
- On the open question, the fastest reliable route is: list the scenes you remember precisely, then find the interpretation they already support.
- That is recursion used deliberately, and it protects you from a thesis you cannot evidence.
Select all the questions in the whole-work evidence pass.
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Length of the source is not a property of your argument.
A whole-work evidence pass
- Are my scenes drawn from at least three different parts of the work?
- Does one of them qualify the reading rather than repeat it?
- Does every scene have a sentence linking it to the claim?
Three refusals: at the funeral (early), at the sale (middle), at the end. Then a fourth scene where he does accept help, from a stranger — which qualifies the reading rather than repeating it, and makes the thesis about family rather than about pride.
For a whole-work claim, sufficiency requires spread: evidence from separate parts turns a moment into a pattern. The qualifying piece of evidence is the one students omit and the rubric rewards. Effectiveness is still commentary — three explained scenes beat five listed ones.