ENGL 101 Chapter 4: Ch. 4 (89-94) (103-117)
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Two common problems: claims without evidence (unsubstantiated claims) and evidence without claims (pointless evidence) Two most basic forms of arranging evidence and claims: deduction (moving from a general claim to specific evidence) and induction (moving from specific evidence to a more general claim) An unsubstantiated claim is not necessarily false,it just offers none of the concret stuff upon which the claim is based. You can"t assume that the readers will believe your claim just because you put it in there. The search for a claim that enable the deductive way of seeing necessarily involves focusing on similarity rather than difference. The goal is to get you to think about all the choice you can make in arranging evidence and claims, and in clarifying the relation between the two. Rehabilitating five-paragraph form: look at the paragraph openings. If the answer is yes to these two questions, chances are great that you are listing, rather than analyzing, the evidence.
