Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture assignments

HU1440: Week 8 Essay

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Types of Claims

Write a paper that is organized around a single type of claim. Choose one of the following claims about

campus issues as the first sentence of your paper:

a. Claim of Fact:

Financial aid for students is (or is not) readily available for your school.

Hint: Add facts, statistics, and examples from your experience and knowledge.

b. Claim of Definition:

A dangerous level of alcohol consumption is not defined by everyone in exactly the same way.

Hint: Compare definitions of dangerous and not-dangerous levels and use examples and statistics as

support.

c. Claim of Cause:

Various causes contribute to the student dropout problem in colleges.

Hint: Describe the major causes for students leaving college before they graduate. Use data, including

statistics and examples as support.

d. Claim of Value:

Online learning does (or does not) equal or surpass the value of a traditional campus learning experience.

Hint: Make a list of positive or negative values provided for students before making your decision. Give

examples to support your points.

e. Claim of Policy:

Students do not always know their academic standing in all of their courses in a quarter; therefore,

measures should (or should not) be taken to correct this lack of information.

Hint: Use examples, comparisons, quotes from authorities, and appeals to values and motives.

Use the ITT Tech Virtual Library to find evidence to support your claims.

Remember to cite any evidence gathered from a source in APA format with in text citations. Evidences that

were not obtained from any source, such as personal experience, and anecdotes, do not needed to be cited

in APA format.

Submission Requirements:

Submit your response to the assignment in a minimum of 250 words in a Microsoft Word document.

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