Unit 2: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. credibility
    the quality of being believable or trustworthy
  2. primary
    of direct and immediate importance
  3. secondary
    depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
  4. source
    a document from which information is obtained
  5. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  6. valid
    well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force
  7. counterclaim
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  8. explanatory
    serving or intended to make clear
  9. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  10. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
Created on Wed Jan 06 10:18:44 EST 2021 (updated Mon Jan 11 10:14:30 EST 2021)

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