The answer-evidence planner helps you build one well-supported point: a claim, the evidence for it and an explanation that connects the two. Then it runs a transparent structure check so you can see what is missing before you write the full answer.
It checks structure only. It cannot tell you whether your facts are right, and it is not a marker.
How do you use it?
- Write the task in the first box, in your own words. Re-reading it is the quickest way to catch an answer that drifts off the question.
- Write your claim: one clear sentence that answers the task.
- Add evidence: a specific fact, figure, quotation, source detail or observation.
- Write the explanation: how that evidence supports the claim.
- Press Run structure check. Read each line, then edit the outline that appears underneath and download it if you want to keep it.
The Reset button returns the sample example.
How do you read the result?
Each line starts with a tick, a cross or an exclamation mark. A tick means the rule is met. A cross means the box is empty.
An exclamation mark means “check this”: the rule did not find what it looks for, but it may be wrong about your case.
The rules are plain. Evidence is flagged if it is empty, if most of its words repeat the claim, or if it contains no number, quotation mark or source word. The explanation is flagged if it is empty or has no linking words such as because, so or which shows.
The word counts at the bottom are for information only.
Example walk-through
The tool opens with a sample task: Should a school cafeteria stop selling sugary drinks?
- Claim: A school cafeteria should stop selling sugary drinks. (8 words)
- Evidence: A 330 ml can of soft drink contains about 35 g of sugar, according to its nutrition label. (18 words)
- Explanation: This shows one can already exceeds what a student should have in a day, so selling it makes a healthy choice harder. (22 words)
Every rule passes. The evidence contains a number and a source phrase, and the explanation contains “this shows” and “so”. The figures are a sample for the exercise, so use real ones from your own source.
Now clear the evidence box and run the check again. You will get a cross: “A claim without evidence is only an opinion.”
Replace the evidence with a sentence that only rephrases the claim and the tool flags the repetition instead. That is the point of the exercise. The text looks finished, and the structure check shows it is not.
What are the assumptions and limits?
- It is not an automated examiner and gives no marks or grade.
- A specific-detail marker does not make the detail correct. A wrong number still passes the rule.
- Good evidence for one subject is different from another. A History source, a Biology result and an English quotation each do the job differently, so ask your teacher what counts in your subject.
- It is not a writer for assessed submissions. Keep your own authorship.
Which lessons explain the ideas behind it?
These pages cover the habits this planner supports:
- Distinguish learning feedback from completing assessed work explains where practice help ends and assessed work begins.
- Record real observations rather than fabricate evidence is about evidence you can honestly stand behind.
- Use study tools while preserving authorship and following assessment rules sets out how to use tools like this one safely.
Once your structure is sound, the next gap is usually content. That is where a teacher watching you answer in real time can help, for example in online one-to-one Economics tuition or the subject you are studying. Other tools are listed in the learning tools directory.