Choose evidence to support a claim
A claim is a statement of a writer's argument, position, or opinion. When you make a claim in a piece of writing, you should also give evidence, or details, to support that claim. Strong evidence should show why your claim is valid or true.
Claim: Reinhold Messner is the greatest mountaineer of all time.
Evidence: Reinhold Messner was the first person to successfully climb all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks.
Evidence does not provide strong support if it contradicts or opposes your claim:
Example: Reinhold Messner does not hold the record for the most successful summits of Mount Everest, which currently stands at twenty-one.
Evidence does not provide strong support if it is off-topic or doesn't address why your claim is true:
Example: Reinhold Messner was born in northern Italy and spent much of the early part of his life climbing the peaks of the Alps.
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