1. The five types of claims for analytical argument are the following:
1. Claims of Fact – stating what is or what happened
2. Claims of Definition – explaining the claim
3. Claims of Cause – the reason for the claim
4. Claims of Value – why the claim is morally correct and significant
5. Claims of Policy – saying how things should be
2. Examples of each of the give claims are the following:
1. Claims of Fact – Penguins are a type of flightless bird that lives in cold weather and slides on its belly and jumps into the freezing cold water of the Antarctic.
2. Claims of Definition – Penguins can’t fly because their bodies are not made for flying. They are big birds with wings made for paddling water.
3. Claims of Cause – Because penguins can’t fly, they just waddle and swim. There are other animals in the Antarctic, but penguins can’t fly away from their enemies because their bodies were not made to fly.
4. Claims of Value – Penguins shouldn’t be hunted to extinction because they are a living species like in Noah’s Ark, filled with animals. They may not be everyone’s favorite animal, but they are mine!
5. Claims of Policy – Penguins should be observed and enjoyed because that is what people do with animals at the zoo and in the media.
3. The value for claim types and questions for reading, viewing, and writing argument are that it can help answer questions in your argument for your audience. The audience needs to be comfortable with the validity of your presentation.
4. Knowledge I have outside of this article is that people tend to dream away the future and think they don’t need to worry about school to get a good job. Yet, this article says people now long to get higher degrees, like they planned to surprise us all along. They point out that dark ethnic statistic groups want higher education. The sad fact is less people in community colleges get 4 year degrees.