CR 6 - Support

All claims in an argument can be supported by:

Evidence

Factual Evidence

Appear mostly as examples or statistics

Examples

Can enliven otherwise dense prose

Statistics

Express information in numbers

Expert Opinion

The interpretation of the data are profoundly important because they influence social policy and affect our lives directly and indirectly.

Images

Example: Photos of the moon landing can be accounted as hard proof evidence

Appeals to Needs and Values

Appeals to Values

Appeals to Needs

Social Needs

Esteem Needs

Self-Actualization Needs

People and institutions are often defined by such a systems of values