Argumentation Vocabulary

Controversy

• a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument

• disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated.

• an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.8

Argument

• an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

• a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument

• disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.8

claim

• a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument

• disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated.

• an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.8

Reason

• an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

• a statement offered in explanation or justification.

• a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.8

Evidence

• a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument.

• a statement offered in explanation or justification.

• information that you can use to support an argument

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.SL.6.3

CCSS.W.6.1A

Research

• an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

• the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

• a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.4

Citation

• the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source

• a discussion marked especially by the expression of opposing views : dispute

• information that you can use to support an argument

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

Plagiarism

• a sufficient ground of explanation or of logical defense.

• information that you can use to support an argument

• the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.W.6.8

Credible

• a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument

• the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

   

• able to be believed; convincing; trustworthy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4D

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Relevant

• Information that supports the reasons

• To be able o be believed

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  1. closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.W.6.1A

CCSS.W.6.2B