Annotation Vocabulary

Rigorous:

• The available facts or information that support a claim

• Extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate

• Imprecise and inaccurate

• The maximum amount that something can contain or produce

An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument:

• Counterargument

• Evidence

• Explanation

• Analysis

True or false: Summary and analysis are essentially the same.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

A summary reduces information from a text to its main points.

An analysis interprets or finds meaning or patterns in information.

Persuade:

• To continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty

• To make something continue indefinitely

• Cause someone to do something through reasoning or argument

A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong:

• Argument

• Evidence

• Analysis

• Summary

The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid:

• Explanation

• Claim

• Counterargument

• Evidence

Analyze:

• To interpret or find meanings or patterns in information

• To paraphrase the main ideas of a text

• To assert the truth of something without evidence

Summarize:

• To call upon people to attend

• To interpret the deeper meaning or patterns of a text

• To condense the information of a text to its main points

To add notes to a text giving explanation or comment

• Argue

• Annotate

• Persuade

• Notarize

Claim:

• An assertion of the truth of something

• A body of facts that support an argument

• Reasoning or justification for a belief

• A summary of facts