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Fact and Opinion: Is There Really a Difference

Fact and Opinion: Is There Really a Difference. Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. - Bernard Baruch 1870-1965 American Financier. {Click mouse to continue}. How to Navigate Through a PowerPoint Workshop.

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Fact and Opinion: Is There Really a Difference

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  1. Fact and Opinion: Is There Really a Difference Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. -Bernard Baruch 1870-1965 American Financier {Click mouse to continue}

  2. How to Navigate Through a PowerPoint Workshop This PowerPoint Presentation is designed to be experienced as a workshop. To ensure that you do not miss important information, only use your mouse at this prompt: {Click mouse to continue} {Click mouse to continue}

  3. Let’s Get The Facts Straight! There is a difference FACT vs. OPINION • Facts-- can be proven • Opinionscan not be proven. They are based on someone's thoughts, their feelings and their understanding. • Use facts to add credibility to an opinion, BUT it is still an opinion! • A widely accepted opinion is NOT a fact. {Click mouse to continue}

  4. Let’s Get The Facts Straight! A fact can be proven by a reliable authority like: A history book Statistics Proven scientific law Measurements Governmental law Mathematics An observation Note: None of these authorities are fool proof, but information that they provide is considered to be fact. {Click mouse to continue}

  5. Lets Look at Some Examples of Facts {Click mouse to continue}

  6. More Examples of Facts Observations--facts that can be proven by the senses. {Click mouse to continue}

  7. Pseudo Facts A statement that misleads people into thinking sometimes something is factual, but really isn’t. {Click mouse to continue}

  8. Getting the Facts on Facts Some facts change over time.For example: It was once considered to be a fact that the world was flat. We believed that by traveling too far in either direction one could literally fall off! Because new things are being discovered everyday, reliable authorities are sometimes forced to alter what we all once considered to be facts. {Click mouse to continue}

  9. Lets Look at Some Examples of Opinions Here are some of the same topics that we saw as facts. Can you figure out how they were changed to opinions? excellent Apparently, necessary. All of these words are hints that there is an opinion present. It is likely It is unfair {Click mouse to continue}

  10. Types of Opinions: Statements of Value • Colin Powell is an excellent candidate for president. • The use of animals in lab testing is cruel and must be stopped. • The Bahamas is the most beautiful place on Earth. A value statement is any claim that is based on someone's beliefs. Here are three examples Value Statements are often opinions attempting to sway the reader to a certain belief. {Click mouse to continue}

  11. Types of Opinions: Statements of Exaggeration • There were millions of people rioting on the streets of down town Cincinnati. • The president has not made one good decision since he has been in office! An exaggerated statement is one that embellishes the facts, often to sway the reader. Here are two examples Writers often use exaggeration to make their point more clear. They are still opinions. {Click mouse to continue}

  12. Opinions: Words To Look Out For There are Certain Words that will Warn You that You are Being Given an Opinion and Not a Fact! Successful Maybe Perhaps Necessary Best / Worst Apparently Probably Experts Agree {Click mouse to continue}

  13. Getting the Facts About Opinions An opinion is not necessarily wrong, it is merely not a provable fact. For example: “Bridgett is a very beautiful young lady.” Even if everyone agreed with this statement, it is still an opinion because it is not provable. Beauty is relative. {Click mouse to continue}

  14. Keeping Your Facts Straight Do you think that you can separate facts from opinions? The next slide will have five statements. Decide whether each statement is a fact, or an opinion. Write down you answers on a separate sheet of paper. {Click mouse to continue}

  15. Keeping Your Facts Straight Separate the facts from the opinions. • The best way to choose a spouse is based on brains, not beauty. • The car probably stopped running because it ran out of gas. • The Learning Center is in the Educational Services Building. • If I were to go on to receive my Bachelors, I would not be successful. • There are 121 prescription drugs that come from plants. On a separate sheet of paper: copy sentence; write your answer {Click mouse to continue}

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