Analyzing Argumentative Texts

A text in which the author presents a claim, or an opinion about an issue is...

• Expository Texts

• Narrative Texts

• Argumentative Texts

• Cause and Effect Structures

A art of speaking or writing effectively is called

• evidence

• argument

• rhetoric

information used to back up and support your answer

• bridge
• persuasion
• argument
• evidence

Challenging the argument by addressing the position of someone who may not agree with the argument

• turnback/rebuttal
• warrant
• counterargument
• argument

The people or group of listeners that will be affected by hearing or reading a persuasive text

• evidence and support

• your reading teacher

• intended audience

A reason that uses logic and persuasion to support a position or point of view

• loaded language

• speech

• an argument

What is a Logical Fallacy?

• argument

• a method used to entertain

• an error in logic

• rebuttal

A statement that many people assume to be true, but which is not actually so.

• commonplace assertion

• argument

• claim

• evidence

A claim is:

• The position you are trying to get your readers to accept

• the thesis statement

• an arguable statement

• all of the above

True or False:
Evidence is facts that support your claim. 

• True
• False