Round 1: Claim or No Claim?
The sky is blue.
Not a claim!
The sky is blue.
Basketball is better than baseball because it is a faster game.
Claim!
Britney Spears' dynamic performances made her the best female pop vocalist of her generation.
Claim!
Anzaldua switches between Spanish and English in her essay.
Summer is the worst.
Hmmm...
While many people argue that social networks help people to establish a sense of community, social networks actually foster a narcissism that threatens communal bonds.
Claim!
Plath uses pronouns without clear antecedents.
Musicians are lucky because they can go anywhere in the world and find people with whom they can collaborate.
Claim!
Many people have argued that social networks reinforce confirmation bias, " the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one's existing beliefs" (Britannica).
Not a claim!
Rich writes about the vastness of the sea.
There are three places in Anzaldua's essay where she seems to address the reader directly.
Not a claim!
Many people who want to curb the use of social networks have argued that social networks promote confirmation bias, which is "the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one's existing beliefs" (Britannica). However, people who make this argument are disregarding something important: they have overlooked the many cases in which friends of friends and other people on the edges of someone's social network regularly introduce new points of view into online conversations.
Claim!
Most high school students have to take standardized tests.
Books are more engaging than movies because they allow you to visualize what's happening in a particular scene.
Claim!