{"id":508,"date":"2018-03-02T22:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T22:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&p=508"},"modified":"2018-07-12T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:37:03","slug":"page-10","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/page-10\/","title":{"raw":"Claim, Evidence and Warrant","rendered":"Claim, Evidence and Warrant"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_1315\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"170\"] From Pixabay.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nBody paragraphs will often begin with a claim<\/strong>, then cite some evidence<\/strong>, then develop the warrant<\/strong> by reading the evidence through<\/em> the claim; however, you should not regard these three elements as immovable parts of a rigid formula of 1+1+1=3. Claim, evidence and warrant should work together more organically than that.\u00a0 You will rarely make a claim without connecting it immediately to evidence. Nor will you simply cite evidence without reading it through the lens of your claim. Better to keep an eye to your thesis and outline and make sure you are always reading the text the way you want your audience to consider it. To understand exactly how this works, let\u2019s compare our intended purpose for Paragraph 1 as detailed in our outline with the actual Paragraph 1 as it appears in our essay. In the final version of Paragraph 1, the evidence is bold<\/strong> and the claim is in italics<\/em>.\r\n\r\nParagraph 1 (First Storey):<\/strong> quote and unpack the contrast of \u201ccooperation\u201d and \u201cconflict\u201d\r\n
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Example<\/h3>\r\nBody Paragraph 1:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn his coy opening paragraphs, Justice describes the many uses of language as if they are features of a \u201cnew communications app\u201d he \u201cjust invented.\u201d Justice notes how language use \u201cfacilitates an expanding network of people\u201d and \u201copens up incredible possibilities for creativity and cooperation.<\/strong>\u201d Such clever itemization of language\u2019s many features enables Justice to establish effectively language as a human tool that has at its root the human desire to connect and work together.<\/em> Though centuries of migration and conflict may have turned the world into a \u201cTower of Babel\u201d in which populations are divided by different languages, \u201call of us living today have a common history\u201d<\/strong> in which language was developed first and foremost to create community.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe whole paragraph works toward our analysis that Justice is really writing about how language, so often used as a demonstration of what divides us, is really symbolic of our common desire to work together, and how if used properly, it can overcome any difference or distance. The whole paragraph is essentially the warrant<\/strong>, punctuated by the transitional last line that claims Justice believes \u201clanguage was developed first and foremost to create community.\u201d Our choice of what evidence we use is not arbitrary and indicates our intended reading of this text. Our description of Justice\u2019s writing as \u201ccoy\u201d and \u201cclever\u201d persuades our reader toward our interpretation of the text\u2014an assertion that what is undeniably in the text<\/em> is doing what we in fact claim it is doing.\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"From Pixabay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Body paragraphs will often begin with a claim<\/strong>, then cite some evidence<\/strong>, then develop the warrant<\/strong> by reading the evidence through<\/em> the claim; however, you should not regard these three elements as immovable parts of a rigid formula of 1+1+1=3. Claim, evidence and warrant should work together more organically than that.\u00a0 You will rarely make a claim without connecting it immediately to evidence. Nor will you simply cite evidence without reading it through the lens of your claim. Better to keep an eye to your thesis and outline and make sure you are always reading the text the way you want your audience to consider it. To understand exactly how this works, let\u2019s compare our intended purpose for Paragraph 1 as detailed in our outline with the actual Paragraph 1 as it appears in our essay. In the final version of Paragraph 1, the evidence is bold<\/strong> and the claim is in italics<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Paragraph 1 (First Storey):<\/strong> quote and unpack the contrast of \u201ccooperation\u201d and \u201cconflict\u201d<\/p>\n
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Example<\/h3>\n
Body Paragraph 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n
In his coy opening paragraphs, Justice describes the many uses of language as if they are features of a \u201cnew communications app\u201d he \u201cjust invented.\u201d Justice notes how language use \u201cfacilitates an expanding network of people\u201d and \u201copens up incredible possibilities for creativity and cooperation.<\/strong>\u201d Such clever itemization of language\u2019s many features enables Justice to establish effectively language as a human tool that has at its root the human desire to connect and work together.<\/em> Though centuries of migration and conflict may have turned the world into a \u201cTower of Babel\u201d in which populations are divided by different languages, \u201call of us living today have a common history\u201d<\/strong> in which language was developed first and foremost to create community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The whole paragraph works toward our analysis that Justice is really writing about how language, so often used as a demonstration of what divides us, is really symbolic of our common desire to work together, and how if used properly, it can overcome any difference or distance. The whole paragraph is essentially the warrant<\/strong>, punctuated by the transitional last line that claims Justice believes \u201clanguage was developed first and foremost to create community.\u201d Our choice of what evidence we use is not arbitrary and indicates our intended reading of this text. Our description of Justice\u2019s writing as \u201ccoy\u201d and \u201cclever\u201d persuades our reader toward our interpretation of the text\u2014an assertion that what is undeniably in the text<\/em> is doing what we in fact claim it is doing.<\/p>\n
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