Springboard Unit 2 Vocabulary

Facts/details that support a claim and are credible and true.

• logic

• justify

• valid

• rhetoric

Examine the nature or structure of something, often by separating it into parts, in order to understand or explain it.

• evidence

• analyze

• debate

• credibility

Aspects pf a text designed to help you understand and organize information

• Secondary source

• Rhetoric

• primary source

• text features

A sentence, usually in the introduction of an essay, that states the writer's position or opinions on a topic.

• thesis statement

• text features

• rhetoric

• claim

information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness the event. (textbooks, research paper).

• counterclaim

• primary source

• secondary source

• debate

Language that a writer uses to persuade an audience.

• credibility

• bias

• thesis statement

• rhetoric

Statement that can be argued, such as whether a fact is true or not, or a situation os good or bad.

• evidence

• claim

• Thesis Statement

• bias

The quality of being believable or trustworthy.

• evidence

• primary source

• credibility

• valid

Impartial judgement or prejudice

• bias

• logic

• rhetoric

• credibility

Original account or record created at the time of an event by someone who witnessed or was involved in the event. (biographies, letters, government records)

• evidence

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• counterclaim