Assertions

• Fact claim


  Can be proven or disproved with the help of factual evidence
• Value claim


  Asks the question: Which is better?
• Policy claim


  Suggests how to address a certain case (Do this or do not to address something)
• Claim


  A statement that can be proven or disproven
• Assertion


  A simple and direct expression of one's opinions, feelings, or beliefs
• Opinion


  A personal judgment
• Assertion


  A declaration or a firm belief of a topic
• Types of Assertions

  • Basic assertion
  • Positive assertion
  • Empathic assertion
  • Confrontive assertion
  • Escalating assertion
  • I-language assertion
• Assertions are neither argumentative nor persuasive
• Persuasive texts have assertions not always backed up by evidence, while argumentative texts have assertions supported by evidence
• Basic assertion


  simple and direct expression of one’s opinions, feelings, or beliefs.

  e.g. I had more time to

  read and analyze this

  book.
• Empathic assertion


  shows sympathy to another person.
• Positive assertion


  expresses positive feelings or emotions.
• Confrontive assertion


  states three closely related actions: an action that was supposed to be done, the actual action, and the action that the speaker wants to be done.
• Escalating assertion


  expecting another person’s response to his or her earlier assertion.
• I-language assertion

  This expresses negative feelings.