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19 Cards in this Set
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What is an ARGUMENT? |
A discussion in which a disagreement is expressed about a point. |
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What is an ASSERTION? |
A statement of believe that is the claim (or backbone) of any argument. |
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What is an ASSUMPTION? |
A statement accepted or supposed to be true without proof or demonstration. |
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What is an AUDIENCE? |
The intended readers of a piece of writing. |
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What is a CLAIM? |
A statement of something as a fact or assertion of truth. |
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What is a CONCESSION? |
An acknowledgment of merits to the opposition. |
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What is CONCRETE LANGUAGE? |
Words that refer to conditions that can be perceived through the senses and strengthen the writing through specific details. |
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What is an ENTHEMYME? |
An incomplete logical structure that depends on one or more unstated assumptions and serves as the starting point of an argument. |
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What is an ETHICAL APPEAL? |
An attempt to engage and persuade readers by presenting the writer as a competent, sincere, and fair person. |
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What is EVIDENCE? |
The information used to support a claim or thesis. |
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What is JUSTIFICATION? |
The reasons given to support a claim NOTE: Can be used interchangeably with the term "reason". |
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What is an OPINION? |
A conclusion based on facts or judgments; an arguable, potentially changeably assertion. |
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What is PERSUASION? |
An attempt to influence by positive or negative means the way a person thinks or acts. |
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What is a PURPOSE? |
What the writer hopes to accomplish in a piece of writing. |
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What is a REASON? |
A statement that explains or justifies a claim; the capacity for rational thought and good judgment. |
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What is a REFUTATION? |
To oppose or take the opposite side of a given claim or argument. |
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What is RHETORIC? |
The artful use of language to produce a response in the reader. |
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What does REVISION mean? |
To enter into a conversation with one's previous thoughts in mind. |
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All arguments contain an element of persuasion, but... |
Not all attempts at persuasion are arguments. |
