reading and writing

• Explicit information


  Information that is clearly stated in the text
• Critical reading


  • Enables you to distinguish the explicit and implicit information provided by the author
• Claims


  State the point or position of an author regarding a certain topic
• Claims


  • Are proven by supporting details from various resources and reliable evidence
• Characteristics of good claims

  • Argumentative and debatable
  • Specific and focused
  • Interesting and engaging
  • Logical
• Completely factual texts are not considered debatable
• Claims must be focused on a single topic alone to arrive at an equally concise and specific result or conclusion
• Implicit

  on the other hand, are ideas suggested in the text but not directly stated. This is where the ability to make inferences based on clues within the text is applied
• 1.A claim should be argumentative and debatable.

  It is expected for a written text to yield objections and opposite perspectives to appear for readers of a text that supports a certain stand on a topic. Completely factual texts are not considered debatable.
• A claim should be specific and focused.

  With the statement of claim limiting the scope of the written text, it must be noted that claims must be focused on a single topic alone to arrive at an equally concise and specific result or conclusion
• A claim should be interesting and engaging.

  It should capture the interest of readers at first glance and encourage a healthy discussion on the topic.
• A claim should be logical.

  The evidence supporting the claim must be reasonable at its best.
• claims of fact

  pieces of information which are grounded on reliable authority such as science or history
• claims of fact

  easily verified and not dependent on a person's preference. it also asserts that conditon has existed, is existing or will exist and is based on facts or data
• facts

  universally accepted are not considered claim of fact but instead a statement of fact
• claims of fact

  are often qualified by such terms as generally, probably or as a rule and to verufy whether these statements are claim of fact or not
• claim of policy

  advocates a specific course of action . it asserts that specific policies should be instituted as solutions to problems

  argue that certain conditions should exist. almost always SHOULD, OUGHT, OR MUST are included to this claim
• claims of value

  it judges whether something is good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust and others. it attempts to prove that some things are more or less desirable than others
• claims of value

  it is better to be feared than loved
• claims of value

  cheating is not good
• claims of facts

  the earth is warming rapidly
• claim of facts

  generally, obesity causes health problems
• claims of policy

  mayor should suspend the classes today
• claims of policy

  the government should legalize medicinal marijuana