Year 10 text response vocabulary

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Discuss

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Write your opinion, usually in an essay, on a prompt where you can take a side for or against or a combination of both and give evidence to support your opinion.

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Contention

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You express your opinion/idea on the prompt. You take a side or a combination of both sides.

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Argument

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Synonym: reason, supporting idea.

They are ideas that support your contention.

Questions: What are your reasons for your opinion?

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Evidence

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This shows your knowledge of the text and supports the topic sentence. It can be what a character says, does or what happens in a text. It can be a quote from a character or a quote from the text. It can contain some context without retelling the scene. It can be a film technique.

Question: What in the text proves your argument?

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Explanation

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Synonyms: Analysis, elaboration.

(of evidence) This links the evidence back to your contention. You are analysing how the evidence proves the topic sentence.

(of topic sentence) This explains your topic sentence in more depth.

Question: How does the evidence prove your argument?