Functions Vocabulary

Making an assertion

• stating

• restating

• supporting

• synthesizing

putting into different words an assertion already made for purposes of clarification and/or adjustment or emphasis

• redefinding

• summarizing

• exemplifying

• restating

supporting means

• telling a story describing an event or series of events

• agreeing with another author's assertion.

• providing evidence for an assertion

• acknowledging the presences of a fact

Concurring means

• offering reasoning or evidence to demonstrate the falsehood of an assertion

• agreeing with another author's assertion

• stating in great length

• making judgment about something

Qualifying means

• combining elements of previous paragraphs into a coherent whole

• moving from one aspect of the argument to another by connecting the points for the reader

• making an assertion

• restricting the meaning of an assertion already made

Acknowledging the presence of a fact or perspective that calls into question the author's own assertions

• negating

• conceding

• describing

• analyzing

stating at great length or more comprehensively an idea or assertion already expressed.

• restating

• synthesizing

• expanding

• comparing

negating means

• offering reasoning or evidence to demonstrate the falsehood of an assertion

• narrating

• contrasting

• evaluating

Analyzing means

• providing evidence for assertion

• stating the meaning of a word or words previously statement or giving subsequently used

• telling a story describing an event or seriously of events

• breaking an assertion down into its constituent parts in order to clarify or evaluate it.

stating the meaning of a word or words previously or subs

• qualifying

• Defining

• narrating

• exemplifying