Worksheet: Identifying Normative Claims Names Instructions: working in groups, d

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Worksheet: Identifying Normative Claims Names Instructions: working in groups, discuss the following and underline the normative claims. If you are really unsure you may underline and place a question mark under your underlining. 1) "The death penalty deliberately ends human life." 2) "The Sith believe that order breeds weakness. Only through conflict can we grow stronger." - the speaker is a Jedi Knight (the Jedi disagree with the Sith). 3.) "2 2-5PMP WRONG!" 4.) "Kevin is short." 5.) "Star Wars Episode I suffers from an incoherent plot. 6.) "Your blood pressure is normal for a person of your age." 7) "It is illegal in Ohio to fish for whales on Sunday." 8.) "Punching Richard Spencer was a mistake. It gave him gave him a platform and some degree of sympathy. It was not just wrong (we can win arguments against fools like that), but stupid as well." 9.) "Several years after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a University of lowa law professor, David C. Baldus (who died last month), along with two colleagues, published a study examining more than 2,000 homicides that took place in Georgia beginning in 1972. They found that black defendants were 1.7 times more likely to receive the death penalty than white defendants and that murderers of white victims were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who killed blacks...When capital punishment was briefly struck down, in 1972, Justice Potter Stewart said the death penalty was arbitrary, like being struck by lightning. It still is, and it's the justices themselves who keep throwing the bolts."

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Normative claims are evaluative, they make value judgement that the things should be or ought to be such and such. They judge or evaluate as good and bad, right and wrong, etc. They compare to a set standard norms.

1. Is not a normative claim because it's not assessing or evaluating death penalty rather, it's describing what happens in death penalty. This is a descriptive claim.

2. This is a normative claim. As in this seen a claim is made made on the basis of certain sort of set standard.

3. This is a normative claim. This claim is on the basis of mathematical operation, that 2+2=5, is wrong.

4. This is a normative claim. In this sentence there is a comparison of Kevin's height to some sort of standard and accordingly it is evaluated that Kevin is short.

5. This is not a normative claim. This sentence is describing the reason than evaluating it.

6. This is a normative claim. Again the blood pressure is evaluated on some standard.

7. This is a normative claim.

8. This is a normative claim.

9. This passage is describing the findings. This is not a normative claim.

10. This passage has normative claim, as it is stating that certain things should be in a certain manner.

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