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    This document discusses making claims in research. It explains that claims should answer the research question, be specific enough, and be significant enough to require an argument. There are two main kinds of claims - practical claims that provide a useful answer, and conceptual claims that provide a better understanding. A compromise is to make a conceptual claim and suggest practical implications. Claims should use hedges to appear less certain but more accepted. The document provides examples of specific claims and discusses whether a claim is significant enough.

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    MAKING CLAIMS

    From The Craft of Research by Booth, Colomb,


    and Williams

    CLAIMS
    Claim: answer to your research question
    Ask:

    What

    kind of claim should I make?


    Is it specific enough?
    Will readers think it significant enough to need an
    argument?

    THE KIND OF CLAIM

    Practical: you give a practical answer


    Benefits:

    Useful!

    Challenges:

    Feasibility?
    Cost?
    Implications?
    Better than alternatives?

    Conceptual: you provide better understanding


    Benefits:

    Easier to argue

    Challenges:

    So what?

    KIND OF CLAIM

    Compromise: offer a conceptual claim and


    suggest possible practical implications in your
    conclusion

    SPECIFIC ENOUGH?

    Although A, B, because C.
    Examples:

    Although a new biofuel plant in Lezha will likely increase


    food prices, it is a worthwhile investment because it will
    benefit Albanian farmers and decrease emissions of ancient
    carbon from fossil fuels.
    Even though a new biofuel plant in Lezha seems to benefit
    the environment by replacing the release of old carbon
    with new carbon, the full implications of the plant have
    not been fully understood. In fact, the Lezha plant has
    significant drawbacks because it will hurt the poor by
    increasing food prices, cause environmental damage to
    natural areas that are farmed for new food crops, and
    because viable hydroelectric alternatives exist that would
    replace old carbon not with new carbon but with no
    carbon.

    IS THE CLAIM SIGNIFICANT?

    HEDGES
    Hedges qualify claims
    Make claims appear less certain, but more easily
    accepted
    Examples:

    wish to suggest a structure for the salt of


    deoxyribose nucleic acid . . . A structure for nucleic
    acid has already been proposed by Pauling and Corey.
    In our opinion, this structure is unsatisfactory for
    two reasons: (1) We believe that the material which
    gives the . . . Some . . . appear. . .
    We announce the structure for the salt of
    deoxyribose nucleic acid . . . Their structure is
    unsatisfactory for two reasons: (1) The material
    which gives the . . . Are . . .
    We

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph


    M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 3rd ed.
    Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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