Claim Types

Claim of _________ attempt to prove that some things are more or less desirable than others. It expresses approval or disapproval or taste and morality.

• Fact

• Value

• Policy

Claim of __________ asserts that specific plans or courses of action should be instituted as solutions to problems.

• Fact

• Value

• Policy

Claim of _________ asserts that a condition has existed, exists, or will exist. It is based on facts or data that the audience will accept as being objectively verifiable.

• Fact

• Value

• Policy

Claims of ________ respond to the common English sentence: Who should? Do? What?

• Fact

• Value

• Policy

Claim of _________ can be attacked or defended on basis of standards that measure worth of an action, belief, or object.

• Fact

• Value

• Policy