Fact vs. Opinion
Evaluating Claims
Critical Reading
Analyzing Language
100

In fact, JLo and Shakira made history on Sunday night. While other Latino artists like Christina Aguilera, Gloria Estefan, and Arturo Sandoval have performed in Super Bowl halftime shows, this was the first time that two Latinas were the headliners.

What is mostly fact some opinion?

100

What kind of evidence is being used?

A study conducted from 1986 to 1992 by Dean Ornish, MD, president and director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, found that overweight people who followed a low-fat, vegetarian diet lost an average of 24 pounds in the first year and kept off that weight 5 years later.

What is a fact?

100

Rather there was a significant increase in relative brain size in odontocetes during their inital raditation in the late Eocene-early Oligoecene transition.

what does Oligoecene mean?

100

Does this have any bias? What is it?

No fair-minded person who's listened to the evidence can come to any other conclusion than Trump acted in a corrupt manner by asking the President of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens in exchange for the release of critical military aid.

What is yes?

200

Chinese authorities have shut down flights, ferries, highways, and trains leaving Wuhan, as well as public transportation within the city.

What is a fact?

200

What kind of evidence is being used?

Charles Moran, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, urges us to read like writers because:

When we readd like writers we understand and participate in the writing. We see the choices the writer has made, and we see how the writer has coped with the consequences of those choices...

What is a personal experience?

200

What is something you should do before reading?

what is skimming?

Research context?

Develope purpose question?

200

What is the tone?

College graduates are also healthier, happier, more likely to remain married, more likely to be engaged parents, and more likely to vote, research has found.

What is encouraging?

300

That said, the 3 precent mania is real. Hence the annual April blossoming of op-eds promising, with comforting certainty, that "it doesn't matter where you go to college." That is a really nice message, It's also wrong.

What is an opinion?

300
What kind of evidence is being used?

More than 75 percent of the sugar and high-fructose corn syrup eaten by Americans was used by the food industry, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

What is a statistic?

300

What does TRIAC stand for?

Topic, restriction, illustration, analysis, conclusion

300

What is the connotation?

Now is the time to life our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity...

What is negative? Why?