DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN “ THE TYPES of CLAIM”
DEFINING CLAIM
Knowing how to identify explicit and implicit information will help you in one of the most important skills needed critical reading. Evaluating claims made by an author. This involves going bact to the text to yourself looking for the writers point af view. The point of view is also known as the claims made and other types of evidence
The claims is a sentence that summarize the most important things that the writer wants to say as a result of his/her thinking reading or wriying
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THE TYPES OF THE CLAIMS
Now that you know the characteristics of a good claim you will be introduced to the different types of claim that a writer can make Fact, Value or Policy you can determine this by examining the type of questions they answer about the text
- CLAIMS of FACT : State a quantifiable assertion or a measurable. They assert that something has excited exist or will exist based on the data. They rely on reliable sources or syatematic procedures to be validated this is what make them different form infeces
• Is this related to a possible cause or effect?
• Is this statement true or false
• Is this claim controversial or debutable?
2. CLAIMS of VALUE : Assert something that can be qualified. They consist of arguments about moral, philosophical or aesthetic topics. These types of topic try to prove that some values are more or less desirable compared to others. They make judments based on the certain standards, on whether something is right or wrong, good or bad or something similar
3. CLAIMS of POLICY : Attempt to explain how problems, situations or issues ought to be valued to discover these explanations you may ask the following questions.
• Which claims endorse what is good or right?
• What qualities should be considered good? Why?
• What of these values contend with others? Which ones are more important? Why?
• What are some concrete examples of such values?