Rhetoric in Claims-Making

Best, Joel. "Rhetoric in Claims-Making: Constructing the Missing Children Problem*" Social Problems. Vol. 34, No. 2 (April, 1997). 101-21.

The Best article was extremely helpful in defining what are job for the research project will be and how best to go about deconstructing the claims maid about cell phone etiquette. Best breaks down claims into 3 major categories, data or grounds, warrants or justifications, and conclusions or claims. By looking at claims through these three main processes Best enable us to deepen our understanding on who, how, when, and why claims are made and hoe through the process they are shaped. With Best's direction we can situate claims within their social context.