Evidence: The Support Behind a Claim
Once you can spot a claim in a passage, the next question is the one that decides most reasoning items: does the evidence actually support it? Evidence is the set of facts, measurements, and observations offered to back up a claim. Strong evidence makes a claim believable. Weak or thin evidence leaves a claim hanging, […]
Claims in Science: What Is Being Argued
A lot of science-test questions are really asking one quiet thing: can you tell what someone is claiming, and can you tell it apart from the reasons they give for it? A claim is a statement that something is true. It is the point of an argument — the thing the writer wants you to […]
