Argumentative Semester Exam Review

What are text features?

•  aspects of a text to help you locate, understand, and organize information

• believable and trustworthy, free from bias

• a writer’s position or point of view on a topic

• an original account or record created at the time of an event by someone who witnessed or was involved in it

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is informational writing?

• the language a writer uses to persuade an audience

• opposing argument

• a form of writing whose purpose is to explain or inform

•  aspects of a text to help you locate, understand, and organize information

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is a Thesis Statement?

• opposing argument

• having sound basis in logic or fact

• believable and trustworthy, free from bias

• a sentence, usually in the introduction of an essay that states the writer’s position or opinion on the topic of the essay

What does it mean to have credibility?

• to be believable and trustworthy, free from bias

• sources that analyze, interpret, or critique primary sources

• having sound basis in logic or fact

• the language a writer uses to persuade an audience

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a Primary Source?

• sources that analyze, interpret, or critique primary sources

• an original account or record created at the time of an event by someone who witnessed or was involved in it 

• opposing argument

• believable and trustworthy, free from bias

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What is a Secondary Source?

•  aspects of a text to help you locate, understand, and organize information

• a sentence, usually in the introduction of an essay that states the writer’s position or opinion on the topic of the essay

• an original account or record created at the time of an event by someone who witnessed or was involved in it

• sources that analyze, interpret, or critique primary sources

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a claim?

• a writer’s position or point of view on a topic

• having sound basis in logic or fact

•  aspects of a text to help you locate, understand, and organize information

• the language a writer uses to persuade an audience

What does it mean if something is valid?

• believable and trustworthy, free from bias

• the language a writer uses to persuade an audience

• opposing argument

• having sound basis in logic or fact

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What is Rhetoric?

• believable and trustworthy, free from bias

• a writer’s position or point of view on a topic

• the language a writer uses to persuade an audience

• an original account or record created at the time of an event by someone who witnessed or was involved in it

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is Ethos?

• appealing to logic

• appealing to emotions

• appealing to a sense of right

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5