Your teacher asks you to write a paper that supports a claim with evidence. In three to five sentences, describe one claim you would like to make and discuss different forms of evidence you can collect to support your claim. Where would you look for this evidence?
I would claim that the cat population is increasing in urban areas due to factors such as humans increasingly keeping cats as pets and the high reproductive rates of cats. To support this claim, I could collect evidence such as statistics from animal shelters showing an increase in the number of cats being surrendered or adopted, data on the number of feral cat colonies in urban areas, and surveys of residents in urban neighborhoods reporting an increase in stray cat sightings. I could look for this evidence in research studies, government reports on animal populations, and surveys conducted by animal welfare organizations.
