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Presentation Claims
Presentation Claims
Claims
By:
Austria, Kimberly Dhia
Rangel, John Emmanuel
Ged 0112Sec 45
WHAT TO EXPECT
Claims assert something.
are not a question.
Example:
CLAIM OF FACT
Claim of Fact
Claims attempt to persuade you that something existed, exists, or will exist or about what
caused something to exist.
Example:
CLAIM OF FACT
*When trying to find factual claims, terms don’t help much, but you could look for time related terms such as
"in the past," or "in the future" and causal terms such as "leads to", "improves", "destroys", or "is caused by."
Claim of Value
Value claims attempt to persuade you to approve or disapprove of something.
Example:
Smoking is unhealthy.
Claim of Value
Example:
Claim of Value
*When trying to find value claims look for terms like "valuable/beautiful/interesting", "good/bad/evil",
"right/wrong", "superior/best/worse".
*Statements that advance judgement about beauty or wisdom.
Claim of Policy
attempt to persuade you to take some action or change a behavior usually to solve a problem.
Example
“You should come eat
shawarma rice with me.”
CLAIM OF POLICY
*statements that urge that an action be taken or discontinued
Claim of Policy
attempt to persuade you to take some action or change a behavior usually to solve a problem.
Example
Smoking should be
prohibited in public places.
CLAIM OF POLICY
*statements that urge that an action be taken or discontinued
*When trying to find policy claims look for terms like "should", "ought", and "must".
Example of Claims
FACT ,VALUE OR POLICY?
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