Claims and Counterclaims

What is the purpose of an argument?

• TO EXPLAIN

• TO PERSUADE

• TO ENTERTAIN

• TO INFORM

The writer's position on an issue

• claim

• counterclaim

• rebuttal

• thesis

an ______________ is a claim that is supported with reasons and evidence.

• argument

• claim

• counterclaim

• relevant information

Any information that helps prove a claim.

• evidence

• argument

• counterclaim

• thesis

Facts, quotations, examples, anecdotes, and statistics can all be used as _______________.

• evidence

• claims

• arguments

• counterclaims

Statements that address opposing viewpoints.

• counterclaims

• rebuttels

• claims

• arguments

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the argument against a claim (what the other side would say if they disagreed with a claim)

• counterclaim

• fallacy

• author's purpose

• argument

The author's purpose is to convince us that the ________________ is true.

• evidence

• claim

• counterclaim

• clues

A counterclaim is...

• A taller claim

• Wrong

• An opposite or different point of view

• A point of view that agrees with the claim

There can only be one claim in a single piece of writing.

• True

• False