Download or read book Fact, Value, Policy written by A. Harris Fairbanks and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact, Value, Policy is a reader/rhetoric designed for second semester freshman courses or more advanced courses on argumentation. It presents a theory of argument that distinguishes arguments of fact that depend on casual reasoning, and arguments of value that depend on analytical reasoning. Policy arguments are discussed as a special kind of claim that combines factual and evaluative issues. This coherent presentation of theory is coordinated with cross-curricular readings.