Section 14:
Meanwhile people like James Peterson, husband of Kateri of the Olive Garden breakdown, are signing up for experiments.
This could be an example of a quantitative or numerical claim since it is grouping people to sign up for experiments and could be a categorical claim by putting these individuals into a category by stating the phrase, “people like James Peterson” are signing up for experiments.
James was so anxious and so suicidal that he couldn’t even muster the self – preservation to get into inpatient treatment.
The above is an example of an evaluative claim because it expresses the type of claim that places some sort of responsibility and/or judgement on the person/situation.
With three kids, eight, five, and two, and Kateri’s full-time job – as a VA nurse, actually – she could no longer manage his emotional plus physical problems: rheumatism consults, neuro consults for TBI, plus a burning rash on both feet he got in Fallujah in 2004.
Categorical claims suggest a list of symptoms, emotional and physical, and some specific examples, such as rheumatism, neuro, and a rash.
Chemical exposure, stress reaction, no one knows, but the skin cracks and opens up raw with lesions sometimes.
This, too, could be a categorical claim because it is naming examples of symptoms that belong within a certain category.
Kateri writes me that just moments after the injection, he “went from balls – to – the – wall PTSD to BOOM chill.”
His reaction from an injection suggests here that this excerpt is a causal claim since the information given is an idea of what resulted in a certain situation, it shows the outcome of the problems he was facing.
That’s when her symptoms got worse, precipitating another meltdown, this time at a steakhouse where she took him to celebrate his newfound calm.
Much like the other time when the person was feeling a similar way and expressing similar symptoms at another restaurant. This excerpt follows the comparative claim and is comparing the way he felt in another scenario, as well as, the scenario he is in now.
They’d “assumed the normal positions,” she with her back to the restaurant, he facing it so he could monitor everyone, and suddenly, a server dropped a tray out of her periphery, setting her circulatory system off at million miles a minute.
Causal claims show cause and effect and consequences to certain environments. It also shows and expresses the reaction, the physical reaction, all while in this very particular situation.
“When you’ve become hypervigilant, the place you are most functional is on the battlefield,” McGill’s Brunet explains.
The attributive claim here suggests that Brunet is explaining what happens when you are hypervigilant.
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Counterintuitive Spring 2023 
Hi! Could you let me know if I picked out the correct claims within my section (14) and if what I have makes sense? Thanks!
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Meanwhile people like James Peterson, husband of Kateri of the Olive Garden breakdown, are signing up for experiments.
This could be an example of a quantitative or numerical claim since it is grouping people to sign up for experiments and could be a categorical claim by putting these individuals into a category by stating the phrase, “people like James Peterson” are signing up for experiments.
—I wouldn’t call it Quantitative or Numerical, ChickenNugget (there are no numbers). But I do agree it places a group of people into the same Category (people like James Peterson). The word “like” is hard to mistake for anything other than Comparative, right? And finally, it’s mildly Evaluative since somebody is looking over the field of experiment subjects and deciding they’re similar to James Peterson.
—You’re not obligated to name all the tiny nuances of your Claim search, but it doesn’t hurt, and I’m always impressed by thoroughness.
James was so anxious and so suicidal that he couldn’t even muster the self – preservation to get into inpatient treatment.
The above is an example of an evaluative claim because it expresses the type of claim that places some sort of responsibility and/or judgement on the person/situation.
—Yes, it’s clearly Evaluative in a couple of ways.
—”so” is an obvious nod to Evaluation.
—It also claims that there’s a Level of Anxiety and Suicidality that qualify for “you need to do this or die.”
—There’s a Causal Claim here, too, CN, not so obvious. It claims that Inpatient Treatment is the way to avoid suicide or reduce anxiety. Doesn’t it?
With three kids, eight, five, and two, and Kateri’s full-time job – as a VA nurse, actually – she could no longer manage his emotional plus physical problems: rheumatism consults, neuro consults for TBI, plus a burning rash on both feet he got in Fallujah in 2004.
Categorical claims suggest a list of symptoms, emotional and physical, and some specific examples, such as rheumatism, neuro, and a rash.
—Agreed.
—It’s Evaluative, too, isn’t it, CN? Maybe others could have managed.
—Maybe it’s even MORE surprising that a VA Nurse would be unable to manage.
—Is there a judgment either way in the Author’s description?
—There’s a Causal claim too, right? His tour in Fallujah caused his burning rash?
I hope these hints will help you Revise before the post is graded, CN.
Always Reply to Feedback, please, ChickenNugget. It’s the primary value of the course, and I love the conversations, but I tire of them if they get one-sided.
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No Revisions, and no Reply to Feedback, after all those comments? Very disappointing.
Graded.
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Hi, so sorry! I just realized you gave me feedback on this post. I have been so busy with all of my work, it is hard to keep up with everything at the moment. I really appreciate the feedback you gave me and it all makes perfect sense. If I make revisions on this post, is there any way I could receive a regrade? I would really like to bring my grade up. Please let me know and thank you.
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Of course. We’re all about Revision and Regrades. 🙂
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Thank you so much! Could we ask for feedback again or do we only receive one regrade per post?
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As long as it’s a conversation (not just you putting your post back into Feedback Please), our interactions/feedback/revisions/regrades can go on indefinitely, ChickenNugget. But rewriting is “remodeling,” not “dusting the furniture.” 🙂
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