Academic Vocab - Argue/Persuade

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Annotation

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Notes added to a text during active reading.

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Argument

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

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Audience

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Persons reached by a book, radio, or TV broadcast.

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Central/Main Idea

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

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Citation

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

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Claim

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an assertion of something as a fact

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Connotation

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Suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning beyond the primary.

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Counterclaim

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a claim made to rebut a previous claim

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Credibility

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the quality of being trusted and believed in

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Denotation

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the explicit or direct meaning of a word or expression