Argument Vocabulary

Your position on a topic that you must support with reasons and evidence.

• Counterarugment

• Argument

• Thesis

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

This statement should tell your reader what the paper is about and also help guide your writing and keep your argument focused.

• Thesis

• Claim

• Rebuttal

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• Rebuttal

• Reasons

• Bias

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What you are arguing or saying about the topic that you support.

• Connotations

• Thesis

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

 Statements made to explain a belief.

• Counterclaim

• Loaded Language

• Reasons

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The opposing claim that disagrees with the claim.

• Loaded Language

• Counterclaim/Counterarugment

• Rebuttal

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

 Opposing reason and evidence that supports the Counterclaim/counterargument and tells why the claim is wrong or weak.

• Claim

• Connotations

• Rebuttal

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Words/phrases that have strong positive or negative connotations.

• Spanish Language

• Loaded Language

• Reading Language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Ideas or feelings attached to a word. 

• Bias

• Connotations

• Argument

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D