TDA Vocabulary Test

A negative or positive respond to your argument

• claim

• rebuttal

• evidence

• argument

Taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

• evidence

• answer

• conflict

• plagiarism

Means to examine, closely study, and evaluate a text by breaking it down to comprehend its meaning

• Analyze

• Claim

• Evidence

• Conflict

Information that leads to a claim

• evidence

• rebuttal

• tone

• mood

Anything that is published or written

• writing

• text

• paper

One sentence that summarizes the evidence, any final statement.

• Thesis sentence

• Concluding sentence

• Text dependent questions

Take the question and rewrite it as a declarative sentence

• analyze

• restate

• redirect

An attention getter when writing

• hook

• text

• fish

An opposite claim with proof and evidence

• bias

• evidence

• counterclaim

A statement or sentence that states the purpose of a paper or essay

• Introduction

• Concluding sentence

• Thesis sentence