Academic Vocabulary Informative Text & Argument Writing

a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument

• claim

• counterclaim

• fallacious reasoning

• fallacy

faulty or mistaken logic

• claim

• counterclaim

• fallacious reasoning

• fallacy

stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

• argument

• connotative

• denotative

• explicit

an appeal to ethics and credibility

• argument

• credibility

• ethos

• fallacy

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• annotation

• connotative

• denotative

• diction

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

• claim

• connotative

• denotative

• diction

the quality of being trusted and believed in

• counterclaim

• credibility

• ethos

• fallacy

a claim made to rebut a previous claim

• argument

• claim

• counterclaim

• fallacious reasoning

signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in

addition to the primary meaning

• citation

• connotative

• denotative

• diction

an assertion of something as a fact

• central idea

• claim

• counterclaim

• fallacy