Persuasive/Argumentative Writing

Facts, quotations, statistics, and case studies are all types of:

• Reasons
• Evidence
• Appeals
• Opinions

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.1.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

An assertion (claim) is:

• A confident and forceful statement
• A mistake
• A statistic about a topic
• An opinion about school

A writer who uses persuasion attempts to:

• teach you how to make or do something
• influence you to do or believe something
• inform you about historic or current events
• tell a story

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

In persuasive writing, the writer may include information about an opinion that he or she is not supporting. In presenting this information, he or she has provided a:

• case study
• testimonial
• citation
• counter-argument

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

When you evaluate evidence, you:

• restate the proof offered by the author
• decide if you like it or not
• decide if the proof supports the author's claims
• make sure that it is the author's opinions

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

What are statistics?

• something that can be proven to be true
• the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data (numbers) in large quantities that can be used in research (A type of evidence).
• an opinion
• appeals

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

A fact is:

• an opinion
• something that can be proven true
• use of numbers as evidence
• a statement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

In argumentative writing, a writer will present a/an ______________ which he/she will back up with evidence.

• statistic
• argument
• case study
• propaganda technique

In argumentative writing, the writer will often present information about the opposite side, or a _____________________.

• Fact
• Anecdote
• Citation
• Counter-Argument

In argumentative writing, the counter-claim is usually found... 

• in the introductory paragraph. 
• in the concluding paragraph.
• What is a counter-claim?
• repeated throughout the body paragraphs.