Argument Elements Pre-Assessment

What is a claim?

• A thesis, or the change the speaker/writer is calling for, the main part of an argument.

• The most important detail of the story.

• A summary of the text

What are citations considered?

• The Claim

• The Argument

• Evidence

• Reasoning

What is reasoning?

• A fact

• The claim

• How the evidence connects to the claim

• Totally debunking a person's opinion.

What is a conclusion?

• A summarization of the article itself

• Restate the claim and summarize evidence

• Analysis of the techniques in the article

• We don't use conclusions in writing

Which quote is properly formatted with an in-text citation?

• The remedy for love is to love more. -Henry David Thoreau

• "The remedy for love is to love more" -Thoreau

• The remedy for love is to love more (Thoreau)

• "The remedy for love is to love more" (Thoreau).

What is a counterclaim?

• A claim you put on the counter

• An opposing or opposite of your claim

• The same thing as just a claim

• There's no such thing