Springboard Unit 2 Vocabulary

A celebrity or regular person endorses a product.

• testimonial
• General agreement
• revising a draft

An arguable statement, which may be a claim of fact, value, or policy.

• claim
• counterclaim
• norm

a claim filed in opposition to another claim

• counterclaim
• valid
• rhetoric

General agreement

• concensus
• norm
• thesis statement

Acceptable standards of behavior within a group that are shared by the group's members.

• norm
• hook
• commentary

closeness to the truth

• valid
• argumentative writing
• testimonial

Something written or spoken by someone who SAW the event

• primary source
• secondary source
• documentary film

A conclusion one can draw from the presented details.

• inference
• hypothesize
• credibility

Believability, trustworthy

• credibility
• expository writing
• textual evidence

To make a guess you can test.

• hypothesize
• claim
• topic sentence