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Three types of claims

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1-fact
2-value
3-policy

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Claim

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A viewpoint that you will create, support, and dissent. It must be debatable.

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Claim of fact

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Stated as if it were true or false

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Claim of value

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Asks your audience to a valuate the worth or value something – good, better, or worse.

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Qualifier

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A word or phrase that gives the claim some flexibility

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Support

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Used to back up the claim

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What are the eight types of support?

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  1. statistics
  2. expert opinion
  3. analysis
  4. experience
  5. analogies
  6. anecdotes
  7. facts
  8. prediction
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Statistic support

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Not the fact but gives them the feel of a fact

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Expert opinion support

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Uses opinions of experts

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Analysis support

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Involves looking at data and research and investigate it and comparing it for trends.

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Experience support

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Personal experience- use with other types of support

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Analogies support

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Another way to make a comparison

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Anecdote support

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The short story that helps illustrate the point- must be brief.

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Fact support

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Actual facts- hard to argue if you have them.

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Prediction support

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When you take analyzed data and fraud evidence you have about it or make a prediction for future trends.

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Three things used for appealing to the audience

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1- ethos
2- pathos
3- logos

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Ethos

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Trustworthiness or credibility

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Pathos

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Is an appeal to emotion

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Logos

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Appeal to logic-persuades by reason

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Concessions

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When you add knowledge a point from an opposing perspective- break down the point before they can attack with it

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Calle to action

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Often a concluding statement at the end of an argument.

-sometimes a suggestion

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Fallacies

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Usually logical or rhetorical errors made, often unintentionally, finding them in what others say strengthen your argument, avoiding them helps you.