Argumentative Writing

What should you start your introduction with?

• Thesis Statement

• Evidence

• A sentence about your topic that grabs the reader's attention

What is considered to be background information?

• What topic you are talking about

• Why you are talking about this topic

• What two sides people are arguing about

• Who this topic might affect

A thesis statement in an argumentative essay is also called a:

• Claim

• Counterclaim

• Rebuttal

Why is a topic sentence (1st sentence) in a body paragraph important?

• It provides evidence that supports the claim

• It helps elaborate the topic even further

• It concludes the paragraph and helps transition to the next

• It tells the reader what that entire paragraph is going to focus on

When writing a body paragraph you should have more ______ than _______?

• Evidence than elaboration

• Topic sentences than evidence

• Topic sentences than elaboration

• Elaboration than evidence

What is the purpose of elaboration?

• To connect the evidence to the claim and use it to argue even further.

• To summarize the evidence

• To just explain the evidence.

Select the characteristics of a counterclaim paragraph:

• Introduces the counterclaim

• Includes evidence to support the counterclaim

• Includes elaboration to explain the topic

• Uses a rebuttal to go against the counterclaim

• Uses evidence to support the rebuttal

Writing that supports a claim with reasons and evidence is...

• a claim

• an argument

• a reason

• a rebuttal

A statement that a counterclaim or criticism is not true is the...

• counterclaim

• claim

• rebuttal

• argument