Cypress College Sharing Claims of Fact Discussion

In preparation for your next essay assignment, you need to develop an ability to write a claim of fact. The second essay assignment must be based upon a claim of fact, not one of value or policy. Those types of arguments will occur later in the semester.

You may choose topics that are inspired by the assigned readings about COVID-19 and the entertainment industry or you may choose different topics related to the coronavirus pandemic.

For your initial post this week, make a list of at least three claims that you could make that would qualify as claims of fact about COVID-19. You do not need to provide an argument for each particular claim (that’s what the essay assignment is for), but you might want to include a bit of context for each claim so that your classmates can see what the issue is and why a claim of fact seems appropriate.

The easiest way to be successful in this assignment might be just to write three reasonable predictions (ones that could be supported by evidence) about what changes are going to happen as a result of COVID-19.

REMEMBER: You are not proposing any particular action take place. You should not be using the word should in your claims. That would make the argument a claim of policy rather than a claim of fact. It’s more likely that you will be using a world like will in your claims of fact.

Your post should be at least three sentences long, of course, but a couple of sentences about each claim would be better (and more helpful to your classmates who might want to select one of the topics you’re sharing).

that is all reading you can use to write this discussion.

• Clark Collis, “What Does the Future of Movies Look LIke? (Links to an external site.)”
• Ryan Faughnder, “Movie Theaters Face ‘Existential’ Threat from COVID-19; ‘Without new movies, it’s over’” (Links to an external site.)
• Brandon Katz, “Entertainment Industry Staring at $160B Loss Over 5 Years Due to COVID-19” (Links to an external site.)
• William Ralston, “Coronavirus Might Kill the Music Industry. Maybe It Needed to Die”