argumentative techniques - Used to convince audiences to consider the merits of a particular position, to adopt a specific stance, or to take decisive action., purpose - The reason the text exists. What the author or speaker hopes to accomplish through the text and why the audience is willing to engage with the text., credibility - The quality of being trusted., perspective - A way of thinking about and understanding something. The author’s attitudes, beliefs, inner thoughts, and/or feelings., formal language - Used largely for academic or professional settings., informal language - Largely used for casual communications with friends or family members. Tends to use first- or second-person pronouns., bias - The side of an issue that the writer favors. Words with extremely positive or negative connotations are often a signal., central idea - The main thought or main idea that guides a text., claim - A statement that asserts something is true., evidence - Consists of facts, statistics, expert testimony, text, or data used to support a claim or idea., relevant evidence - Information that supports and connects to a claim best and/or the most up to date. It can take the form of a fact, a quotation, an example, a statistic, or personal experience., reliable evidence - Information that is consistently good in quality; able to be trusted., sufficient - Enough or Adequate., counterclaim - An argument presented against a presented thesis of claim., rebuttal - An attempt to disapprove, contradict, or argue against a counterclaim by introducing additional reasoning and evidence., logical reasoning - To examine something carefully, oftentimes following steps, to judge how well the reasons/claim and evidence go together or the validity and soundness., valid - Whether an argument makes sense logically. If the reasons (evidence) are true, then the conclusion should logically follow, even if the conclusion isn’t actually true in real life., sound - An argument is logical and based on true facts. The reasons (evidence) are true, and the conclusion (claim) that comes from them is also true., evaluate - To examine something carefully and to judge its value, worth, or trueness., persuasive techniques - The art of creating an argument that not only uses logic but also the reader’s emotions in order to attempt to incite a person to take action or to change an opinion or belief., tone - The way authors express their personal opinions about themselves, the content, the subject, and/or the audience., audience - Actively engages with texts for their own reasons, interprets the texts according to their own knowledge bases and experiences, and puts the text to work to accomplish their own purposes.,

Unit 3: Argument Academic Vocabulary

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