Argumentative Writing: High School: Argumentative Writing, List 3

Argumentative writing involves investigating a topic, gathering and evaluating information, establishing a position, and writing about the position in a clear and concise manner. This list of vocabulary reviews the key terms that are essential to the art of argumentation.
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  1. analysis
    literary criticism considering the structure of a text
  2. analyze
    consider in detail in order to discover essential features
  3. synthesize
    combine so as to form a more complex product
  4. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  5. interpretation
    an explanation that results from making sense of something
  6. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  7. logical fallacy
    an error in reasoning that undermines an argument
  8. rebuttal
    the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary argument
  9. reason
    an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
  10. reasoning
    thinking that is organized and logical
  11. deduction
    reasoning from the general to the particular
  12. induction
    reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
Created on Tue Jun 03 21:04:21 EDT 2025

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