Once you have identified the author’s claim and also located all of the evidence provided, how do you analyze the claim? Decide if the author should have done more research or worded the claim differently.

Decide whether or not you agree with the author’s claim, regardless of the evidence.

Decide if the evidence supports the claim well enough to convince most readers that it’s true.

Decide how the author should have supported the claim, instead of the way he or she chose.