Contact Sports: Key Terms

Audience

• The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting.

• A type of research paper.

• People who have the same goals.

• A source that provides a thorough, well-reasoned theory.

Transitions

• A type of writing style.

• A part of speech that is used within a piece of writing.

• A word or phrase that connects one idea to another in a piece of writing.

• A way of giving credit to a source within your writing.

Reliable Sources

• One that give your own opinion, without using facts based on strong evidence.

• One that provides a thorough, well reasoned theory, argument, discussion, based on strong evidence.

• One that is fictional, with made up characters.

• One that is information/explanatory in nature.

In-Text Citations

• Pictures or captions used within your writing.

• A paraphrase of factual information, with no source given.

• Guessing at where your factual information is from.

• The brief from of the reference that you include in your paper.

Claim/Argument

• Your opinion about a recent event.

• Your opinion about a recent event that contains SOME relevant facts.

• The position taken in an argument/thesis

• The 2nd Body paragraph in any piece of argument writing.

Reasoning

• The action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.

• The action of trying to win an argument with a friend.

• The action of focusing on one subject.

• The action of writing an argumentative paper.

Counterclaim

• A claim that backs up a your thesis

• A claim that introduces a new subject to a piece of argumentative writing

• A claim made to rebut a previous claim

• A claim that no one will agree with

Thesis

• A concise summary of a main point or claim of an essay, research paper, etc.

• A summary of the main point or claim of an essay, research paper, etc, that is very unclear to the reader.

• Cannot be mentioned in a paper until the conclusion paragraph.

• Is someone other than the author's opinion in an essay, research paper, etc.

Viewpoint

• Standing on a mountain and looking at the view.

• An unclear thought about a claim

• Needs to be expressed in a separate paragraph.

• A position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated.

Annotate

• Completely reading a text.

• Skimming and scanning a text.

• Comprehending and answering questions about a particular text.

• Adding notes to a text. Giving explanation or comment.