Vocab for Argumentative Writing

Annotation

• a claim made to rebut a previous claim

• notes added to a text while participating in active reading

• highlighting

• a quotation

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Argument

• a statement, reason, or fact for or against s point

• an assertion of something as a fact

• an appeal to ethics and credibility

• a point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Audience

• the author's reason for writing the piece

• a statement with evidence

• the persons reached by a book, radio, television broadcast, etc.

• everyone

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Central idea

• notes added to the text while participating in active reading

• the main idea of a writing; the point the author wants you to remember most

• the title of the text

• the claim for the essay

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Citation

• evidence

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• an annotation

• a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Claim

• a statement, reason, or fact for or against a point

• an assertion of something as a fact

• the main idea

• a theory

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Connotative

• source of evidence

• something stated in immense detail; a report

• signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning

• working together

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Counterclaim

• a claim made to rebut a previous claim

• evidence to disprove an idea

• evidence to prove an idea

• the audience's opinion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Credibility

• a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work

• evidence to prove an idea

• a source

• the quality of being trusted and believed in

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Denotative

• when neither side of an argument has reliable evidence

• a failed attempt at proving evidence

• the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it

• when you try and disprove a claim with incorrect information

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D