Help middle or high school students with note-taking skills to select strong textual evidence to develop their claims in argumentative writing, including essays, research papers, and debate speeches. The SEARCH acronym categorizes text evidence to help students recognize essential details in nonfiction texts as follows:S - statistics or number factsE - events A - anecdotes R - remarks from an expert or eyewitness C - comparisonH - historical fact. This resource includes a colorful 11-slide PDF p