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Learner writes the claim after knowing what support they have, rather than making a claim and hunting for support that fits it.
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Six mechanisms. Usually the narrowest claim is the right one.
Support: A junior with nobody experienced sitting near them never overhears a difficult call. Which claim does this fit?
Why the usual order fails, the order that works, and what it costs.
Claim first, then hunt for support.
What you find is usually adjacent rather than exact, and the paragraph ends up half-aimed.
You then spend the paragraph pulling the support toward a claim it does not quite reach.
Ten pairs. Four fit, and one of those looks too wide.
Sort each item into the correct category
Six mechanisms with no claim attached.
Mechanism: A junior with nobody experienced sitting near them never overhears a difficult call, and takes a year to learn what proximity teaches in a month. → Claim:
Mechanism: A commuter on minimum wage spends about a tenth of their take-home pay simply reaching the job. → Claim:
Mechanism: Fare revenue funds roughly a third of network maintenance, and that money has to come from somewhere once fares go. → Claim:
Mechanism: When centre flats are let to visitors year-round, the families who used the schools move out and the schools close. → Claim:
Mechanism: A parent working a shift that ends at six cannot collect a child at three, whatever the timetable says. → Claim:
Mechanism: Replacing a trained employee costs roughly six months of their salary in recruitment and lost output. → Claim:
Write the mechanism, then the claim, then assemble.
Topic: whether governments should fund free childcare.
Box 1: the mechanism you can actually explain, step by step. Write this first. Box 2: the claim that mechanism supports — exactly that, no wider. Box 3: the paragraph as a reader would see it: claim first, then the mechanism.
Write this before the claim.
Exactly what the mechanism carries.
What the reader sees.
The one thing you could walk someone through. That is your claim.