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 is more plausible.

Step 7: 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 this other claims next to Dependency of.