Think about a time when you made a claim or gave an opinion, but someone asked you, “Why?” or “How do you know?” Describe the situation. What evidence did you use to support your point, and why is explaining your evidence just as important as providing it?

 I once told my friend to always focus on his future self not his present. He hadn't been doing his homework after school and he had asked me, how do you know? I said that I once didn't do my homework everyday after school and I started doing bad in classes because of it. I told him that I didn't want him to have to go down the same rabbit hole I did. He then tarted doing his homework everyday right after school.

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