Argument Claim

Summer is the best season.

• Claim

• Evidence

What is evidence? 

• Information that ties your claim to your warrant.

• Information that disproves your claim. 

• Information that supports your claim.

• Information that supports your warrant. 

What is an acceptable counterclaim to the following claim? 
Claim: Students should not be allowed to retake tests at El Cap.

• Students can retake tests at El Cap. 

• Students should fill out the error analysis form before retaking a test.

• Students should be allowed to retake tests at El Cap. 

• Students almost never retake tests anyway so they should not be allowed to anymore. 

Which of the following is the best example of an argument? 

• How monkeys survive in the jungle: Five Surprising Facts

• If you are not playing Fortnite, you should be, because it is the greatest game on the market today. 

• Have you ever wondered why the Egyptians built the pyramids?

• I love nachos!!!!!

Claim: All high schools students should be required to take a foreign language to make them more competitive. 
Which piece of evidence BEST supports the claim above?

• You will learn another language. 

• Learning another foreign language is a waste of time.

• There is little evidence that many students achieve much fluencey in high school. 

• Learning another language improves students' vocabulary and grammar skills. 

Identify which sentence contains the claim in the following paragraph. 
At first, in junior high everything feels difficult. However, once students have the time to adjust to the new routine, they begin to look forward to senior high. Though junior high prepares students for high school, the change from 9th to 10th grade can be a challenge. High school is more difficult than junior high because there are more people, the teachers are more strict, and the work is much harder. 

• Sentence 2

• Sentence 3

• Sentence 4

In the United States, we still need a post office. Which of the following is NOT a good piece of evidence to support this claim?

• The post office is needed for the delivery of packages.

• Nearly 90% of mail is junk mail and throwing it away is bad for the environment.

• The post office serves Americans throughout the country

Evidence: Zoos cannot perfectly copy the animal's natural habitat. Zoos don't allow animals to think and problem solve like they would in their natural habitat. Which claim best matches the evidence?

• Zoos are harmful to the well-being of the animals.

• Zoos only exist as entertainment for humans.

• Zoos are good for animals because many of the animals were endangered in their original habitats.

What is a specific opinion or idea expressed to convey an argument

• Evidence

• Argument

• Claim

• Inference

When you are asked to "trace" arguments and claims, what does this really mean for you to do?

• to tell the argument

• to investigate, to study closely

• to use your pencil to draw around

• to read