• A. Quote the constituent: Chairman Inez M. Tenednbaum / CPSC our determined regulators

FIRST SENTENCE OF STATEMENT

• “Today’s unanimous vote by the Commission to approve an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on table saw blade contact injuries should send a clear signal to consumers and the industry that the Consumer Product Safety Commission is determined to be part of the solution to reduce the serious number of preventable table saw injuries that occur each year. “

• B. Paraphrase or explain what claim is made if necessary, or simply repeat the quote if not. Everyone agreed collectively that they would be sending a booming signal to consumers and the industry that the CPSC  is determined to bring about a solution for serious, preventable table saw injuries.

• C. Identify what type of claim is being made. A factual claim is being made if the claims are made based off of sound data. It could also be a causal claim if the cause of the injuries  is the contact of skin with a blade and not the lack of safety measures taken by the manufacturers. Everything is assumed to be understood as truthful.

• D. In a few sentences, evaluate the accuracy, quality, reasonableness, logic, and persuasiveness of the claim, and any support that is offered for the claim. (Obviously no claim can contain all the evidence necessary to support it, so I’ll ask you not to disqualify claims just because they’re insufficient to prove themselves.) Preventable injuries happen each year. Serious injuries happen each year. There is a solution to the serious, preventable injuries. The CPSC is determined . Industry and consumers will be reached. Industry and consumers should receive a clear signal. A clear signal of the solution to serious and preventable table saw injuries. Nearly everyone, if not all, on the commission voted in agreement with one another.

• E. You may also choose to refute the claim, again in a few sentences, if you disagree with it. As a factual claim, preventable could be refuted, so, the entire claim as a whole (in terms of a claim harboring a request) could be denied on the basis of probability and human tendencies.