Vocabulary for Argument Claim Evidence Warrant Conclusion Claim

Vocabulary for Argument Claim Evidence Warrant Conclusion

Claim: A claim is a statement we believe is true but could be challenged. GED Students should be given chocolate candy and not oranges for a treat.

Evidence Fact or observable data either physical or reliably reported. You can look it up or you can see for yourself that it’s true. When you put out a bowl of chocolate and a bowl of oranges, the chocolate disappears but there’s always oranges left.

Warrant Common sense rules, general statements about how people and things behave. Generally speaking, people choose what they prefer to eat and leave what they don’t like.

Conclusion Reasoning that must be supported with evidence and warrants. GED students prefer chocolate over oranges.

Okay –back to our claim, Claim: MMS should be abolished. We based this claim on several conclusions. MMS is hard on families. MMS is expensive for the taxpayer. MMS denies defendants of legal resources. Each conclusion is the result of evidence and warrants.

Who killed Amy La. Tour? Amy La. Tour’s body was found in her bedroom last night, as shown, with her pet canary strangled in its cage. Henry Willy and Joe Wonty, her boyfriends; Louis Spanker, a burglar, known to have been in the vicinity; and Celeste, her maid, were questioned by the police. Based on the evidence found at the scene, who killed Amy?

Definitions • Evidence – • • Reasoning that must be supported with evidence and warrants Evidence – • Common sense rules, general statements about how people and things behave Conclusions – • Observable data either physical or reliably reported Warrants – Examples Warrants – • There are flowers “From Joe” and a picture of Joe on display Generally when flowers and a picture are on display, the person is special Conclusions – Therefore Joe is special to Amy