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The Support Check
A balance three ways: level, claim-heavy, and support-heavy.
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A claim too big for its stones, and stones too many for their claim.
Learner repairs support faults where nothing marks which one is present, including the case where the claim rather than the support must change.
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The chapter assembled, the two-ended repairs, and the one that is a delete.
All commuters would clearly switch to buses. According to a study, 78% say so.
1 Would a sceptic accept it? no
2 Is the claim narrow enough? no
3 Invented source? yes
4 Aimed at the claim? yes
✓ Commuters paying four pounds a day have an obvious reason to switch.
A balance three ways: level, claim-heavy, and support-heavy.
A claim too big for its stones, and stones too many for their claim.
Four repairs. One is fixed by changing the claim.
1. Claim: homework harms children. Support: homework is extremely harmful and clearly damages them.
Would a sceptic accept the support? This fails at question . Repaired support: An hour of homework after a six-hour day leaves a ten-year-old .
2. Claim: all young people prefer online learning. Support: students who already study alone find it suits them.
Can you think of an exception to the claim? This fails at question . Repaired — and it is the that changes: prefer online learning.
3. Claim: free transport would change commuting. Support: according to a recent study, 78% of commuters would switch.
Can you name the study? This fails at question . Repaired support: A commuter paying four pounds a day once the fare is nothing.
4. Claim: free transport is too expensive. Support: buses run every four minutes at peak times.
Subject of the claim in one word? · Subject of the support? This fails at question . Repaired support: funds about a third of network maintenance.
Three paragraphs, different faults. One is already sound.
Paragraph A
(1) Every student benefits from studying abroad. →
(2) It is obviously an extremely valuable experience in many important ways. →
(3) A student who has never lived alone learns in one term what a decade at home would not teach. →
Paragraph B
(4) Free public transport would reduce car use in dense cities. →
(5) According to a recent study, 78% of drivers would switch within a year. →
(6) Buses in most cities are also reasonably comfortable and reliable. →
Paragraph C
(7) Employers should pay for training that is specific to their own work. →
(8) Replacing a trained employee costs roughly six months of their salary. →
(9) A worker trained on one company's systems cannot take much of that value elsewhere. →
A claim and its support, reported fault by fault.
Topic: should governments limit the number of tourists allowed into historic cities?
Write one claim and two or three sentences supporting it.
No clearly, obviously or extremely. No statistics, no research shows.
Make a claim your support can actually carry.
Three or four sentences.
Four support faults. Which do you make?