Identifying the Author's Claim

What is a Claim?

• A statement the author makes the express their opinion about a particular subject.

• Something you submit when you get in a car crash.

• Something that is used to support an opinion with facts.

QUESTION: What is the claim of the partial article below?

It may seem foreign to parents, but for kids, video is a fun way to communicate. All the coolest apps -- Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Messenger -- let users share video clips. So even though you may have concerns about the risks of broadcasting on the Web -- and they are legitimate -- your kid may see it as a way of expressing herself, learning digital video skills, sharing with friends, and experimenting creatively. It's important to balance your concerns with the benefits she can reap.

It's a good sign that she asked your permission. With your guidance and support, she can do it safely, and it might be a fun project that may be useful down the road. In fact, more and more kids are using their online channels -- whether it's a Tumblr blog, an Instagram photo collection, or a Snapchat story -- as digital portfolios to showcase their work to employers, colleges, and potential collaborators. YouTube even offers free educational content for creators who are serious about their work.

• When allowing your kid to create a YouTube account, it's important to balance concerns with the potential benefits.

• When allowing your kid to create a YouTube account, it's important to take into account the mental health of your child.

• When allowing your kid to create a YouTube account, it is important to know that kids like to express themselves through videos.

• When allowing your kid to create a YouTube account, you should feel ashamed. It isn't a good idea, ever.

QUESTION: What is the claim of the partial article below?

K-Pop seems cool; but it is actually very sad and disheartening, and those who don’t know about it but worship it anyway are actually quite dumb.

The present-day K-Pop phenomenon is the product of the South Korean society that was colonized by the USA and the consequent lack of development in the area.

In a country where nothing was manufactured, jobs were meagre and people were poor, the government had to manufacture something.

• K-Pop is a great cultural phenomena.

• K-Pop is actually very sad and disheartening.

• South Korea is where K-Pop was first created.

• The US colonized South Korea and that is why they invented K-Pop.

QUESTION: What is the claim of the partial article below?

Collecting, loving, buying and even wearing sneakers is different now than it’s ever been before. At the end of 2019, we noted that everyone wanted to be a sneakerhead in our annual end-of-year list. In 2020, that hasn’t really changed — but so much else has. Although sneaker collecting has long been trending towards a digital pastime with online raffles, Instagram flexes and resell sites like StockX and GOAT taking the place of campouts, meet-ups and conventions, this year forced the “game” even further in that direction owing to sweeping changes necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. Beginning-of-year prediction lists? Rip ‘em up. The Olympic Games, an annual innovation summit for the world’s biggest footwear brands? Postponed until 2021. Release dates? More flexible, fluid and likely to be pushed back than ever before.

• 2019 was a big year for "sneakerheads".

• You can't buy shoes the way you used to.

• The popular trend of collecting sneakers is popular but ever changing.

• The 2021 Olympics will definitely bring some new shoes.

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QUESTION: What is the claim of the partial article below?

The breakout success of Among Us is surprising when you recall that this multiplayer game of find-the-impostor from developer Innersloth was originally released to neither acclaim nor fanfare back in June 2018, and was barely able to scrape together enough simultaneous players to fill more than a couple of games over its first few months of life.

But it turns out that Among Us was just two years early. It was the game of 2020, it just needed reality to catch up to it.

Throughout the past spring and summer Among Us has been collecting players at an ever increasing rate, and it now boasts more than 85,000,000 mobile downloads and hundreds of thousands of people playing at a time during peak hours. The once-empty servers are so busy it can sometimes be hard to host a game. More importantly, though, it has insinuated itself into the culture of popular gaming, with high-profile streamers and YouTubers racking up millions of views off of their videos for the game.

• Among Us was the game of 2020 even though it was released two years earlier.

• Among Us has collected more players than any other game in history.

• Among Us is the best game ever.

• Among Us is essentially mafia (which is better and more creative) except as a video game.

• You are the Imposter.