When writing an essay, how should a writer present his best piece of evidence?

The way my lang arts teacher taught us was to include it in our first body paragraph backed up by a well written explanation

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.