Argumentative writing Vocab

The people watching or reading and determines your tone. (To be persuasive, you have to consider who your _________ is.)

• audience

• Rebuttal

• Claim

• author’s purpose

The reason someone decides to write about a particular topic to persuade someone.

• Claim

• subjective

• author’s purpose

• objective

A conclusion that is supported by evidence and reasoning. (formula:___________ = Claim + Evidence + Reasoning.)

• audience

• argument

• author’s purpose

• claim

What the argument is trying to convince you of. (It’s the “what” of an argument).

• claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

• Counter-argument

The facts, quotes, and paraphrased information given to support the claim of an argument.

• Evidence

• Claim

• Reasoning

• Rebuttal

The other part of the “why” in an argument. It is the explanation, the logic of why the evidence given makes the claim more likely to be true.

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Claim

• author’s purpose

_______________is a counter-claim is a claim made by someone who doesn’t agree with your claim is supported by evidence.

• Counter-argument

• Rebuttal

• objective

• subjective

The response to a counter-claim (or counter-argument), using evidence and reasoning to prove that the counter-claim is wrong and your claim is right.

• Rebuttal

• objective

• subjective

• Reasoning

When you are ___________, you look only at the facts and do not let your personal beliefs, opinions, or biases influence you. It also means presenting information without the filter of your personal beliefs.

• objective

• subjective

• Reasoning

• Rebuttal

When you are ___________, you let personal beliefs, opinions, or biases influence you.

• subjective

• Rebuttal

• objective

• Evidence