One thing I learned in chapter six was Compound Claims. A compound claim is a claim made up of multiple other claims. Basically a claim with two components. The two components claims can be connected with words like "or" or "and."
An example would be "The movie had a real interesting plot and cool characters!"
This is a compound claim because it "compounded" that the movie had an interesting plot and cool characters.
Another thing I learned was contradictory of a claim. Contradicting claims are claims that contradict each other. Contradictory means like the opposite, so claims that have opposite meanings.
An example would be "The movie had a real interesting plot but was really boring." It is contradicting because first it was stated that the movie had a interesting plot, but then it was stated that it was boring,
When using Compound Claims, it's important to use claims that do not contradict. If a compound claim has contradicting claims, it would make the claim ineffective.
Hi DONNERZ! I wrote about compound claims and the contradictory of a claim as well! Your example is good because it has one real claim but it had two part to it. Readers will understand that the movie was interesting and it just happened to have cool characters too. The contradictory of a claim is very easy to understand, it is simply just stating the opposite of the statement that was said before.
ReplyDeleteThe example that I used was, "My mom or dad will wash the car today....Neither my mom or dad will wash the car today." You did a good job of clearly explaining things.
After reading chapter six I also felt that compound claims are a need to know. The way you have explained it was very easy for me to understand and it helped me understand it more. A compound claim holds to claims with in one and is usually connected by "or", just as you mentioned. If you were to put two totally different claims together and form one, it wouldn't sound right, it wouldn't concluded effectively. It is like if someone were to say " Denny's has great tasting food and good service, but I've never eaten there" How could you possibly know that their food taste good and if their service is good if you haven't even went to a Denny's? You brought up a very important point when you said that it is important to use claims that do not contradict, because if you did it would make them contradict.
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