Learner checks that each support sentence supports the claim actually made, rather than a neighbouring claim the paragraph drifted into.
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Five supports, ordered from squarely on the claim to entirely off it.
Claim: **fares block low-income people from reaching work.** Order these five supports from the one most squarely on that claim to the one furthest from it.
Six pairs. Four are about two different things.
Claim: free transport is too expensive. Support: buses run every four minutes at peak times, so nobody waits long. Do these match?
How it drifts, the one-word check, and which end to repair.
You write a claim about cost. Then you think of a good point about convenience, and you write it because it is good.
The paragraph now supports a claim you never made — and it does so convincingly.
Twelve pairs. Two on-target ones look off.
Sort each item into the correct category
Eight pairs. Five fix the support, three fix the claim.
Rewrite the support. Claim: free transport is too expensive. Support: buses run every four minutes at peak times. →
Rewrite the support. Claim: homework harms primary-age children. Support: teenagers report high stress during exam terms. →
Rewrite the claim. Claim: all remote work harms junior staff. Support: a junior with nobody sitting near them learns nothing about handling clients. →
Rewrite the support. Claim: fares block people from reaching work. Support: ticket machines are often out of order. →
Rewrite the claim. Claim: tourism ruins historic cities. Support: centre flats are now let to visitors, so the schools have closed. →
Rewrite the support. Claim: the fee rise deterred poorer applicants. Support: universities used the extra income to refurbish libraries. →
Rewrite the support. Claim: longer school days would help working parents. Support: pupils perform better when they read at home. →
Rewrite the claim. Claim: public transport should be free everywhere. Support: in dense cities, the fare revenue is smaller than the congestion cost it creates. →
Write both, then name the subject in one word.
Topic: whether employers should pay for their staff's training.
Box 1: a claim, then two sentences supporting it. Box 2: the subject of your claim, in one word.
Before you send it, name the subject of your support in one word too, and check they match.
Three sentences.
One word.
Name both subjects. Are they the same word?