Types of Claims

The curfew must be set at a later time in consideration of those who are working.

• Claim of Fact

• Claim of Value

• Claim of Policy

Anything taken in moderation is tolerable.

• Claim of Fact

• Claim of Value

• Claim of Policy

The level of pollution in this city is harmful.

• Claim of Fact

• Claim of Value

• Claim of Policy

The following statement is what type of claim? While some have framed a four-year college education as something necessary for adult success, this notion should not be treated as a given.

• Claims of fact or definition

• Claims of cause and effect

• Claims about value

• Claims about solutions or policies

The following statement is what type of claim? The student debt crisis is one of the most serious problems facing the country today.

• Claims of fact or definition

• Claims of cause and effect

• Claims about value

• Claims about solutions or policies

The following statement is what type of claim?

Federal student loan policies have caused widespread growth in college tuition.

• Claims of fact or definition

• Claims of cause and effect

• Claims about value

• Claims about solutions or policies

The following statement is what type of claim? Rather than encouraging all students to attend four-year colleges, we should instead emphasize the validity of two-year colleges, technical schools, and trade schools as well.

• Claims of fact or definition

• Claims of cause and effect

• Claims about value

• Claims about solutions or policies

You will most likely use more than one type of claim in your argumentative writing.

• True

• False

These claims argue about what the definition of something is or whether something is a settled fact.

• Claims about solutions or policies

• Claims of fact or definition

• Claims of cause and effect

• Claims about value

These are claims that argue for or against a certain solution or policy approach to a problem.

• Claims about solutions or policies

• Claims of fact or definition

• Claims of cause and effect

• Claims about value