Do you know your Argumentative Essay terms?

a reason for or against something

• persuasion

• argument

• evidence

• credible source

to win over to a belief or to a course of action by argument or earnest request

• persuasion

• debatable claim

• topic sentence

• reflection

a statement of the main thought of a paragraph

• evidence

• commentary

• topic sentence

• debatable claim

presented as true or accurate versus a belief based on a judgment

• evidence

• credible source

• reflection

• fact vs. opinion

open to question or dispute

• evidence

• debatable claim

• commentary

• credible source

a sentence to introduce the reader to the purpose of the comment and outlines the major topics that will be covered to achieve that purpose

• audience

• revision

• thesis statement

• audience

outward sign or indication to be easily seen

• revision

• fact vs. opinion

• argument

• evidence

offering reasonable grounds for being believed

• commentary

• credible source

• revision

• fact vs opinion

a series of notes to explain a topic

• audience

• thesis statement

• argument

• commentary

to look over again in order to correct or improve

• revision

• persuasion

• reflection

• topic sentence