Fact or Opinion
McDonalds sells more hamburgers than any other restaurant chain in the world.
What is a fact?
Data, facts, statistics, professionals.
What is the types of evidence
Evidence is factual and reason explains the information and how it supports the claim.
What is the difference between reason and evidence?
What is the author's purpose for writing this?
A cookbook containing recipes for making cakes, cookies and other deserts.
What is informing? What is explanatory?
This is a statement acknowledging the opposite side of the argument.
What is a counterclaim?
The more money someone has the more successful they are.
What is an opinion?
Argument: Screen addiction is problematic for teens.
Addiction may not be an official term in the U.S., at least not yet. But researchers and clinicians like Bishop, who avoid using it, are still concerned about some of the patterns of behavior they see.
What is not evidence?
Nope!
Argument: Screen addiction is problematic for teens.
"Addiction to video games and internet use is defined as: a serious dysfunction in multiple aspects of your life caused by non-stop usage."
What is Evidence!
Why did the author write this for?
An advertisement trying to get you to eat less meat and more vegetables due to the health risks of eating to much red meat.
To persuade?
Argument: Social Networks help keep interactions among people limited based on similar interests.
Addiction may not be an official term in the U.S., at least not yet.
What is not a counterclaim?
Nope!
Students have a lot harder time in school than the teachers.
What is an opinion!
Argument: TV should be used as a form of literature.
The National Endowment for the Arts found that in 1982, 56.9% of adults reported having read a work of literature in the past year. In 2015, only 43.1% of adults had. Since so many are watching TV rather than reading, TV should be used in literature.
What is Evidence!
Argument: Screen addiction is problematic for teens.
Because, really what matters most, this study suggests, is your relationship to it, and that requires looking at the full context of life.
What is Reason!
Newspaper article about the unemployment rat in Burkesville, Kentucky.
What is to inform?
Argument: Screen addiction is problematic for teens.
But are we truly addicted to technology?
WHAT IS not counterclaim!
The fastest land dwelling creature is the Cheetah.
what is a fact!
Argument: TV should be used as a form of literature.
Nowadays books are being turned into movies and tv series which makes it harder to teach without learning about tv.
What is not evidence?
Nope!
Argument: Screen addiction is problematic for teens.
“Because, really what matters most, this study suggest, is your relationship to it, and that requires looking at the full context of life.”
What is Reason!
A billboard stating that Burger King is only five miles away.
What is to persuade?
Argument: Social Networks help keep interactions among people limited based on similar interests.
But while many Facebook interactions remain private — visible only to friends and friends of friends — Twitter conversations are much more public.
What is a Counterclaim!
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won eleven Oscars (Academy Awards).
What is a fact?
Argument: Social Networks help keep interactions among people limited based on similar interests.
“I’m meeting strangers,” she says — two in the last two weeks, in fact. “I met them and I felt like, ‘This is my tribe.’”
What is not evidence!
Michael Jordan has a career average of 30.4 points per game and helped the Chicago Bulls win 6 championships.
What is evidence!
The Captain Underpants book series.
What is to entertain?
Argument: TV should be used as a form of literature.
However, there are legitimate concerns about using classroom time to dissect television.
What is a Counterclaim!