COMM212 Chapter 1: booth et al notes

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM212
• Professor: staff

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Part 3: making a claim and supporting it. People usually think of arguments as disputes. You have to anticipate that readers will think og objections and alts, and so you have to answer them as they are likely to arise. The only diff is that in a research report, (cid:374)ot o(cid:374)ly (cid:373)ust you a(cid:374)s(cid:449)er your reader"s questions, you must also ask questions on their behalf. As you put arguments together, no habit of mind will serve you better than imagining yourself in a conversation with your readers, you making claims, your readers asking good questions, you answering them as best you can. 2 elements that you must always state explicitly are your claim and supporting evidence: your claim states what you want readers to believe, your evidence or grounds are reasons they should believe it. When you offer either of these elements w/o the other, you seem to offer either pointless data or underground opinion.