Chapter 4: Support That Holds

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   Sprint 4.1: Support, Or Just A Louder Claim

   Learner distinguishes support from restatement at higher volume, and supplies the former.

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   Sprint 4.2: The Personal Example

   Learner uses a personal example where it demonstrates the mechanism, and knows when it is too narrow to carry the claim.

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   Sprint 4.3: All, Every, Always

   Learner narrows a claim to the scope their support can carry, and stops making claims that one counterexample destroys.

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   Sprint 4.4: The Statistic You Invented

   Learner replaces invented data with support that does not depend on a source, and stops writing "according to a recent study".

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   Sprint 4.5: Support That Wandered

   Learner checks that each support sentence supports the claim actually made, rather than a neighbouring claim the paragraph drifted into.

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   Sprint 4.6: Making A Claim You Can Actually Support

   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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7. 07

   Sprint 4.7: Chapter Repair — Unmarked Support

   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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