Compound Claims

A compound claim has to do with a sentence that contains two claims but is viewed as a single claim. For example we have two single claims: "Working as an intern at a company can gain experience for the future." and "Working as an intern you can give you an insight of whether you'll do well or not in the career path." These claims can be combined to work as one claim. For example you could write, "Working as an intern at a company can give you experience or even give you an insight of whether you'll do well in said career path." These are two seperate claims that can be seen as one claim in one sentence, hence being a compound claim. This is also an alternative claim since it contains an "or" claim. It can also be seen as a compound claim because it is either or. The parts of the compound are not saying the same thing with different words, but are telling us that either you'll gain the right experience or you'll find out that you're not in the right field.