What counts as evidence

All words front of you are evidence, it may be first hand evidence or second hand evidence. First hand evidence is a type of evidence that you have to create on your own. Second hand evidence is a form of evidence that you have to find on your own. Chapter 16 in the Dr. Wood’s blue bible, Lunsford Et. Al. 2009 talks about what is or not an evidence. There are six different categories of evidence which can lead you to be a better academic writer.
Six different categories are observations, interviews, experiments, surveys/questionnaires, personal experiences, and library/online resources. Observation is when you pick a subject and you look at it very closely. Then you record what you see and hear from the subject. The subject may be a living thing or nonliving thing. An interview is the communication between you and a person, a subject. You ask the person about his/her background and personal experiences relating to your claim. An experiment is when you collect data or kind of table to provide a detailed support and more believable to your argument. Surveys/Questionnaires are kind of form to ask a majority of people and make an assumption amount of people who do or don’t support your claim. A personal experience piece is the mainly powerful part of the essay you are making. This kind of method draws more readers but it may make the readers to feel negative. This technique is risky and you don’t have to add personal experience in your piece because you have other seven different techniques of evidence to present to the readers. Second hand evidence is library/ online resources. Library and online resources is the easiest way for you to find evidence because you can pull up a book or a website and find some article which is related to your claim.
How this system of varied evidence is do make you a better academic writer, once you insert all of kind of strong true evidence into your piece, and you will have a strong paper. The paper will not stand on a thin spot of ice instead the paper will stand on a thick chunk of concrete. Once you used first hand evidence, you will have a durable piece because first hand evidence is the truth out of people’s voices. First hand evidence is interviews, observations, surveys/questionnaires, and personal experiences. Those kind of evidence are factual than second hand evidence because second hand evidence may be refined though years with different people’s thoughts. For an example, the second hand evidence may change from renaissance age to today because in rebirth, people think women is lower than men. Today, we believe that sex don’t matter to the society. When you write a paper without any evidence but only your thoughts, it may be a feeble paper or a paper with your thoughts called a opinion paper. Once you add one kind of evidence into your piece and then you will have an actual argument.