Argumentative Terms

This is the position or idea that the writer is trying to get the audience to accept.

• reason
• claim/thesis
• evidence
  evidence
• warrant

These support your claim or these and set up the big idea for each body paragraph.

• warrant/bridge
  warrant/bridge
• evidence
• claim/thesis
• reasons

Facts, statistics, anecdotes, and quotes

• claims
• evidence
• warrants
• audience

The reader that the writer is trying to convince of his or her position or idea.

• claim
• warrant
• thesis
• audience

A statement that goes against or opposes the author's claim.

• counterclaim/counterargument
• rebuttal
• warrant
• thesis

A formal discussion or argument about a particular topic

• Point of View

• Argument

• Debate

• Counterclaim

1. Which piece of evidence best supports the claim that -students should have sports class in middle school-?

• "Schools that have sports class are popular"

• "Including sports programs is expensive."

• "Research shows that sports increase student interest in school"

• "School sports include volleyball and soccer.

3. Which of these transition words would you use in the counterargument paragraph?

• Also

• Similarly

• However

• In conclusion

4. The evidence below best matches which claim?

-Teachers often stay late at work, plan and grade student work at home and spend many hours on weekends planning lessons for the week.-

• Teachers respect students.

• Teachers work very hard.

• Teachers are very knowledgeable.

• Teachers are very important.

7. Which of these phrases would be good to use to cite text evidence?

• In conclusion,

• According to the text,

• In my opinion,

• In other words,