Chapter 8 talks about your research 'claim', or the answer to your research question. This serves as the main point of the paper, so it is important that it is clear and significant. There is no right or wrong claim, but there are ways to improve to upon the ones you make. For example, by asserting that your claim is specific, while giving you enough to talk about. The claim must also be significant and persuasive to the reader. Chapter 9 discusses the two ways to support your claim, reasons and evidence. Reasons help you logically order your essay in order to make it make sense, while evidence helps support those reasons. The evidence must be reliable and presented in such a way that it makes the reader believe what you are saying, which will be different for all readers.
These two chapters, especially chapter 9, will be helpful to me when I go to plan out my essay. I will need a strong and specific research question and claim, two things that I did not have before. which will help me focus my essay a little better on one, singular goal. Also, the reasons and evidence structure will be useful to follow while planning out my writing, and it will also remain a strong structure on which to build my paper. So far, I have found these two to be some of the most helpful and interesting chapters so far, and I will certainly keep them in mind as I move further into my research.
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