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Identifying Explicit and Implication Claim in a Text

Explicit and Implicit

Explicit Information according to Stephanie Mitchell (2013), the word explicit means:
clear and fully expressed, no question as to what it means, no hidden connotations, no
room for misunderstanding. For example, the phrase “it was a dark and stormy night,”
uses explicit information that leaves no room for debate.
Implicit Information described things in which a meaning is implied or hinted at rather
than being expressed directly. For example, “Miles moved away from the dog.” It is
suggested that Miles does not like dogs because he moves away from the dog, but it is
never directly stated.

Identifying Explicit and Implicit Claim in a Text


- In a meaningful reading engagement, getting into the message of the text by
verifying issues, affirming one’s values or even stand by a decision is highly
necessary. The author aside from offering information, he/she too challenges the
reader to give reactions as the text purposively makes circumstances alive. If
teeming with exciting and stimulating content, the reading material is readily
shared, thus it becomes a potent source of discussion in the academe, the
community or the industry.

Defining Claims
- del gandio J.2008, said that a claim is an arguable statement—an idea that a
rhetor (that is, a speaker or writer) ask an audience to accept. A claim is an
opinion, idea, or assertion. Here are three different claims: ‘I think we should
have universal health care. ‘I believed the government is corrupt.’ “We need a
revolution. These claims make sense, but they need to be teased out and
backed up with evidence and reasoning.”
Campbell and Huxman define a claim as an assertion. They stress how it is an
inference beyond the facts. In strategic discourse, a claim is a statement we
make to an audience with an anticipation that they should agree with it.

- It is statement. A claim is discourse.

- It involves a speaker’s awareness of an audience. The very idea of a claim


involves a wish about an audience.

- It deals with a search for agreement. The wish is that the audience will agree with
the statement.

- It involves anticipation. To anticipate the audience’s agreement means we look


hopefully to it, but we are anxious that they may not give it.

- A claim thus forwards a statement that we worry the audience will not agree to,
but wish them to agree to.

Types of Claims
Claim of Fact – A claim asserts empirical truth.

• Something that can be determined by careful observation of past, present, or


future.
• Generally, the truth of the assertion will be determined by events. But the
speaker will offer information or explanation that predicts or characterizes the
events.
• Claims of fact are those we think about rightly as being true or false. Of
course, sometimes we cannot prove something true or false, but we have to
say “How likely is it that it is true?” But the reasons we give are the reasons
we believe the statement is thru or false.
• Argument usually turns on strength of evidence presented as reason for
arguer’s belief in the claim.
Example:
- Research studies are conducted to improved human condition.
- Video games lead to the increase of violence.

Claims of Value – A claim asserts a judgment of some sort.


• Look for key words that are a matter of judgment rather than fact: good, well,
kind, useful, desirable, etc.
• Speakers provide the reasoning for their judgment, but ultimately, it is assent
to the reasons rather than comparison to fact that determines the agreement
to the claim.
• A claim is based on things we like or dislike. Thus it deals with goals, with
things we find attractive.
• Your feel for the argument by judgment or value has to be different than that
of fact. Disagreements over values are not “wrong” in the sense that key are
inaccurate. Rather, they turn on what is important to us and how the things
that are important to us come to bear on a situation.
• Argument usually turns on whether the underlying value of the claim is
accepted as a public good.
Example:
- Musical comedy is the beast form of entertainment.
- Snowboarding is the greatest way to spend a vacation

Claims of Policy – A claim asserts that an action should be taken.

• Be sensitive to calls that some action be taken.


• Look for key words “should” or “ought.” These words may not always be
present, but if they are, actions are usually called for.
• Decisions about whether we should take an action or not are the most
complex of arguments. They turn on many claims about what happens if we
do take an action or what happens if we fail to act.
• Argument usually turns on whether the reasons for taking the action outweigh
the possible costs of taking the action.
Example:
- Fetal tissue should be banned in any research undertaking.
- The death penalty should be abolished because it does nothing to prevent
murder.

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