🎉 Claims and Types of Evidence 🎉

Question 1

Claims of value

Answer 1

argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong

Question 2

Claims of policy

Answer 2

proposes a change

Question 3

Claims of Facts

Answer 3

asserts that something is true or not true

Question 4

First hand evidence

Answer 4

evidence based on something the writer knows, whether its from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events.

Question 5

anecdotal evidence

Answer 5

evidence in the form of stories that people tell about what has happened to them.

Question 6

second hand evidence

Answer 6

evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. It includes factual and historical information, expert opinion, and quantitive data.

Question 7

expert opinion evidence

Answer 7

direct evidence outlining what the expert witness, believes, or infers in regard to facts, as distinguished from personal knowledge of the facts themselves.

Question 8

quantitive evidence

Answer 8

includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers.