Argumentative Writing & Informational Text Vocabulary Review

notes added to the text while participating in active reading

• annotation

• thesis

• pathos

• explicit

a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

• justification

• claim

• inference

• premise

the author’s attitude toward the subject

• point-of-view

• tone

• credibility

• purpose

persons reached by a book, radio, or tv broadcast, etc.

• audience

• argument

• citation

• relevant

the main idea of a text; the point the author wants you to remember most

• central idea

• diction

• ethos

• fallacy

a statement, reason, or fact for or against a point

• inference

• argument

• rhetoric

• purpose

a subject for a composition or essay

• premise

• citation

• counterclaim

• thesis

a quote from or reference to a book, paper, or author especially in scholarly work; giving credit to the original source

• citation

• diction

• credibility

• explicit

the quality of being trusted and believed in

• ethos

• credibility

• evidence

• sufficient

an appeal to logic

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

• rhetoric