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CLAIMS IN A WRITTEN TEXT SCRWRIT https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/59f1fcfb3eba461000f4ef9a/fact-opinion-and-commonplace-assertions Claims are statements that are essentially arguable but used as a primary point to support or prove an argument. Used in rhetoric and argumentation, a claim persuad...

CLAIMS IN A WRITTEN TEXT SCRWRIT https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/59f1fcfb3eba461000f4ef9a/fact-opinion-and-commonplace-assertions Claims are statements that are essentially arguable but used as a primary point to support or prove an argument. Used in rhetoric and argumentation, a claim persuades, convinces, proves, or provocatively suggests something to a reader who may or may not initially agree with you (University of Washington, n.d.).  “when you make a claim, you are arguing for a certain interpretation or understanding of your subject.” a claim is different from just mere opinion A claim can also be explicit or implicit. For instance, a bit of dialogue. Mother: The phone is ringing. Daughter: I’m in the bathroom! Explicit and implicit claims may further be classified into three: claim of fact, claim of policy, and claim of value. 1 CLAIM OF FACT  FACT VS CLAIM OF FACT For example: 1. According to the US Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the month of March 2017 was 1.03°C (1.9°F) above the 20th century average—this marked the first time the monthly temperature departure from average surpassed 1.0°C (1.8°F) in the absence of an El Niño episode in the tropical Pacific Ocean. (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201713) 2. Decreasing carbon dioxide emissions from car exhaust, manufacturing processes, fertilizers, and landfills, while slowing deforestation, may help slow the process of global warming. Claims of fact are debatable assertions that can be proved or disproved. 2 CLAIM OF VALUE It is also called claim of judgment because the reader must decide whether the argument or proposition is right or wrong or must be accepted or rejected. For example: It is better to apply good nutritional choices at home than teach them at school, because good nutrition then becomes ingrained in the child’s experience. When looking at claims of value, look for the adjectives. They will point you to judgments that are subjective and are thus debatable. 3 CLAIM OF POLICY They begin with “should”, “ought to”, or “must”. For example: Soda ads should also be banned for the same reason that smoking ads were to decrease the urge to engage in an unhealthy behavior. To illustrate how the three claims can work together, read the samples below: F: Capital punishment does not deter crime. V: Capital punishment is unjust since it is inequitably administered, i.e. only used against the poor. P: Capital punishment should be abandoned by civilized societies. Claims in a written text may be of fact, value, or policy. A claim of fact makes an assertion about something that can be proved or disproved with factual evidence while a claim of value argues that something is good or bad, or that one thing is better than another thing. A claim of policy argues that certain conditions should exist, or that something should or should not be done, to solve a problem. These claims may either be explicit or implicit. http://dev.career.thoughtfullearning.com/etips/creating-convincing-claims