claim

Examples of claim in the following topics:

• Turning Your Working Hypothesis into a Claim

  • Consequently, it is the nature of a hypothesis to make a claim about something.
  • If your hypothesis does not make a claim, it is for one of two reasons.
  • If something cannot be contradicted, it is a fact rather than a claim.
  • You always want to be as clear and thorough as possible about what you are claiming.
  • Compose a working hypothesis based on a claim you want to prove

• Supporting Your Thesis

  • Synthesizing your general claims with specific evidence is a way of providing support for your claims.
  • General claim: The novel has a history of being popular with politically progressive groups.
  • Your thesis will condense a series of claims into one or two sentences.
  • To prove your thesis, you will need to articulate these claims and convince the reader that these claims are true.
  • Consequently, the majority of your paper will be dedicated to presenting and analyzing evidence that supports your claims, making it clear to the reader how the evidence relates to the claims.

• Topic Sentences

  • You then organized your research, finding the evidence to support each claim.
  • Each paragraph will begin by making a claim (your topic sentence) that connects back to your thesis.
  • Usually, paragraphs will end by connecting their claim to the larger argument or by setting up the claim that the next paragraph will contain.
  • If you have a lot of ideas and claims to address, you may be tempted to combine related claims into the same paragraph.
  • If you have too many claims, choose the strongest ones to expand into paragraphs, or research the counterarguments to see which of your claims speak most powerfully to those.

• Establishing Why Your Claims Matter

  • In your writing, you should establish why the claims you are making matter for your reader.
  • Putting Your Claims in Context: Tell your readers where things currently stand with your topic.
  • After you build the foundation of your argument, illustrate your general claims with specific examples.
  • Putting Your Claims in Context: Tell your readers where things currently stand with your topic.
  • In the course of your writing, be sure to articulate why the claims you are making matter.

• Step 3: Outlining

  • Do the same with the other claims and pieces of evidence.
  • Now you can rearrange the pieces of evidence as necessary to go with the most appropriate claim. 
  • Read your thesis, claims, and evidence out loud to a friend.
  • Looking at your outline board, come up with counter-arguments and questions for each claim.
  • After each claim, ask, “What does the reader need to know next?”

• Approaches to Your Concluding Paragraph

  • Next, you'll restate your claims, but you'll want to do this in a way that flows.
  • You're no longer trying to prove the claim.
  • As you're weaving your claims together, you can get creative.
  • Your point here is to show the reader how these claims inform one another to support the thesis, and to emphasize the significance of each claim to the argument.
  • There should be no new evidence or claims presented in the conclusion.

• Generating Further Questions

  • A thesis statement, by making a claim or challenging one, is bound to generate further questions.
  • Your thesis statement stages the overall claim of your paper.
  • Which claims must be proven in order to move onto the next step of your argument?
  • Does my analysis of evidence make it clear how that evidence supports my claim?
  • Defend your thesis by anticipating and answering questions your claim may generate

• Approaches to Your Body Paragraphs

  • Each body paragraph will be organized around a claim, which you'll form into a topic sentence.
  • You'll generally begin each paragraph with its topic sentence, then you'll move to the evidence that led you to this claim before ending with a concluding sentence that weaves claim and evidence together.
  • Check to see whether the statement sums up one of your claims.
  • Instead, write your topic sentence and look over the evidence you've gathered for that claim.
  • It could be that a recent study found exactly what your topic sentence claims, and you want to lead with that.

• Making Your Own Arguments

  • This section plays a vital role: it makes sense of your results, and it also synthesizes your work, reminding your readers of the steps you've taken to address your initial claim.
  • Therefore, you need to formulate a contestable claim.
  • In the case of the sciences, those claims are the conclusions you draw from your data.
  • Using this section to explain how you reached those claims and why the reader should agree with them is essential.
  • An easy way to ensure that you are making a contestable claim is to position yourself in relation to other scientists' work.

• Approaches to Your Introductory Paragraph

  • Leading them from your claims to your thesis, which is generally at the bottom of the "funnel," is also a subtle act of persuasion, whispering, "Once I've proven all of these points, you'll see that [my thesis] must be true."
  • What you want to do here is simply draw a line from your opening to your thesis statement, using your claims.
  • Think of this part as weaving together each claim with the emotion you brought up in the beginning, bringing the strands in one by one.
  • In this paragraph, the example in the opening takes us through the claims, getting us closer to the thesis.
  • The reader is ushered into the topic and through the claims without being conscious of reading an essay.