1. A Quick Guide to Claim/Data/Warrant
CDW– What is that?!?
A Quick Guide to Claim/Data/Warrant

2. Claim/Data/Warrant is a format for writing in a clear logical manner.
What is CDW?
Claim/Data/Warrant is a format for writing in a clear logical manner.
When writing in CDW, you have to:
(1) make your point
(2) support your point with facts
(3) explain how the facts prove your point.

3. What goes into a cdw paragraph?
(1) Claim
(2) Data (with a transition)
(3) Warrant

4. The 1st sentence of a paragraph
What is a claim?
The 1st sentence of a paragraph
- Clear and provable opinion
- Usually a response to a question or prompt
- It can include the title of the text and the author, if used.

5. What exactly does Data mean?
Evidence from the text that proves/supports the claim
A paragraph should contain 2 pieces of data – should have at least two reasons/facts
-All quotations should be properly documented (MLA citations – rules will come later!)

6. What are transitions?
A sentence or partial sentence that sets the context of the data
Answers questions like who, what, where, when (not necessarily all of them)

7. The most important and significant part of the paragraph
What is warrant?
The most important and significant part of the paragraph
States how and why the data proves the claim (Your opinion)
Your interpretation and analysis of the data

8. Putting it all together
What does a completed CDW paragraph look like? 8 sentences
Claim
Transition into Data
2 Warrants
Concluding sentence