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Understanding Claims
• Claims of comparison
• Claims of cause
• Claims of value
• Claims of policy
Claims of Fact
• Questions Answered:
• What is it?
• What is it like?
• How should it be classified?
• How should it be interpreted?
• How does its usual meaning change in a particular
context?
Claims of Definition
• Types of support
• Reliable authorities and accepted sources
• Analogies
• Organization Strategies
• Comparison-and-contrast
• Topical
• Explain the controversy; give reasons for accepting
one view
Claims of Cause
• Questions Answered:
• What caused it?
• Where did it come from?
• Why did it happen?
• What are the effects?
• What will probably be the results over the short and
long term?
Claims of Cause
• Types of Support
• Factual data
• Statistics
• Analogies
• Literal
• Historical
• Signs of certain causes
• Induction
• Deduction
Claims of Value
• Questions Answered:
• Is it good or bad?
• How bad?
• How good?
• Of what worth is it?
• Is it moral or immoral?
• Who thinks so?
• What do those people value?
• What values or criteria should I use to determine
its goodness or badness?
• Are my values different from other people’s
values or from the author’s values?
Claims of Value
• Types of Support
• Appeals to values
• Motivational appeals
• Analogies
• Literal
• Figurative
• Quotations from authorities
• Induction
• Signs
• Definitions
Claims of Value
• Organization Strategies
• Applied criteria
• Topical organization
• Narrative structure
Claims of Policy
• Questions Answered:
• What should we do?
• How should we act?
• What should future policy be?
• How can we solve this problem?
• What concrete course of action should we pursue to
solve the problem?
• Types of support
• Data
• Statistics
• Moral and commonsense appeals
• Motivational appeals
• Appeals to values
• Literal analogies
• Argument from authority
• Definition
• Deduction
Claims of Policy
• Organization Strategies
• Problem-Solution
• Problem described in sufficient detail so audience will
want a solution
• Solution is spelled out
• Show how solution will work
• Show how solution is superior to any alternatives
• Visualization of how matters will be improved
• Ends with action step
Claims in Life