Argumentation

Understanding the pros and cons of an issue is an essential aspect of argumentative writing.

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• False

One’s choice of words matters in clearly expressing his/her arguments about an issue.

• True

• False

An argumentative essay presents a writer’s stand or rationale regarding a certain issue.

• True

• False

The pattern of idea development in an argumentative text is the same for every author.

• True

• False

Research plays a big role in ensuring the worth and validity of one’s claims and ideas in an argumentative essay.

• True

• False

Argumentative writing usually shows a more subjective style of writing as the writer explains his or her views about the topic.

• True

• False

Reasoned, logical way of asserting the soundness of a position, belief or conclusion.

• Counterclaim

• Rhetoric

• Ethos

• Argumentation

The central point an argument makes-( a thesis).

• Argumentation

• Claim

• Rhetoric 

• Synthesis 

The evidence that you use to support your claim

• Grounds

• Refutation

• Warrant

• Antithesis 

The connection of the grounds back to the claim

• Argument

• Repetition

• Warrant 

• Pathos