Editing: Guide to editing

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The following is a guide to initiate new users into the editing framework.

Arguably.io utilizes a template to organize semantic claims. The template serves to connect a primary claim to its related claims.

Step 1: Choose a claim about some topic of your choosing.

Step 2: Distill your chosen claim into a brief statement. Submit this statement as the Statement of the claim.

Step 3: Determine the nature of the claim. Submit it as the Nature of claim.

Step 4: Research the claim. Take care to provide the strongest argument to validate the claim. The editor is not meant to provide a full-length discussion that includes supporting and contradicting evidence. Save the contradicting evidence for the counter claim, which will have its own separate page.

Step 5: Following research, determine the level of certainty of the claim. Submit this it as the Level of certainty.

Step 6: Determine the counter claim of the primary claim. The counter claim is usually a negative version of the primary claim ([x] is / [x] is not). Sometimes, there may be related claims which do not contradict the primary claim, but are more plausible.

Step 7: The validity of the primary claim may be dependent on one or more other claims, called foundational claims. Include these other claims next to Dependent on. These references are useful to establish a relationship between claims.

Step 8: The primary claim may be a foundational claim for other related claims. Include these other claims next to Dependency of.