Argument Vocabulary

•  A statement or assertion that can be supported with evidence.

• Claim

• Counterclaim

• Grounds

• Logic

• A statement opposing the original claim, presented in an argument to acknowledge and address opposing viewpoints.

• Counterclaim

• Reasoning

• Summarize

• Tone

• A statement opposing the original claim, presented in an argument to acknowledge and address opposing viewpoints.

• Counterclaim

• Reasoning

• Summarize

• Tone

Facts, details, or information that support or prove a claim

• Claim

• Summarize

• Paraphrase

• Evidence

The process of thinking and making logical connections between evidence and a claim to support an argument

• Counterclaim

• Data

• Reasoning

• Grounds

The author's attitude or emotional expression toward the subject matter, readers, or characters in a text

• Grounds

• Logic

• Tone

• Claim

Sound reasoning and the use of valid arguments to reach a conclusion in an argumentative piece

• Logic

• Grounds

• Summarize

• Counterclaim

Facts, statistics, and information used to support a claim or argument

• Grounds

• Data

• Logic

• Claim

To repeat the exact words spoken or written by someone else in a piece of writing.

• Textual

  Evidence

• Tone

• Quote

• Paraphrase

The origin of information, such as a book, article, or person, from which the data or ideas are obtained

• Logic

• Grounds

• Source

• Quote