Argumentative Academic Vocabulary

Argument

• A statement, reason, or fact that is for or against a point

• The author’s attitude toward a topic

• An assertion of something as a fact

• A claim made to refute a previous claim

An appeal to ethics and credibility

• Ethos
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea

The author's attitude toward the subject

• Tone
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea

A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work

• Citation
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea

Signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning

• Connotative
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea

A subject for a composition or essay

• Thesis
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea

Enough; adequate

• Sufficient
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea

The persons reached by a book, radio, or television broadcast, etc.

• Audience
• Annotation
• Argument
• Central Idea
• Citation

The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it

• Denotative
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea

Closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

• Relevant
• Annotation
• Argument
• Audience
• Central Idea