REVISED Claim Development Tool

Write your working claim here.     [Place brackets around the important, key words that you’ve included.]

Review your material.

Now that you have come to terms with multiple views on this issue, revise your claim to reflect your informed view. Do the bracketed words above adequately represent your position or is your argument more complicated? What words could you change or add? Write your new claim here.

Circle words in your claim above that would cause another person to disagree with it. ·         What would they say to counter your claim? Write what they would say or what terms they would question here.

What in the countering view or evidence has merit and calls you to seriously consider their points or evidence? Write those points or that evidence here.

How are your claim and the counter views related? What’s the balance? Try to explain it here.

Write a revised claim here that reflects the thinking above.