ACE and The Rhetorical Triad
In AP Seminar, this component represents the main thesis and central line of reasoning that an entire text or section proves.
What is an Argument?
A claim that asserts whether something is real, true, or actually occurred is categorized as this type of claim.
What is a Claim of Fact?
This term refers to an argument that expresses the view of someone who disagrees with your thesis or part of your thesis.
What is a Counterargument?
Michael Levin argues in "The Case for Torture" that torture is morally mandatory if a caught terrorist hides an atomic bomb in this location.
What is Manhattan Island (or New York City)?
The rule of thumb suggesting students receive approximately 10 minutes of homework per night per grade level is known by this name.
What is "the 10-minute rule"?
These statements function like paragraph topic sentences that break down the overarching thesis into specific, arguable sub-points.
What are Claims?
The statement "We should spend less on the prison system and more on early intervention programs" is an example of this type of claim.
What is a Claim of Policy?
This is the term for the response or reply that answers and disproves a counterargument.
What is a Rebuttal?
In Alec Schiernebeck's argument on progressive fines, flat fines fail to achieve these two basic goals of punishment.
What are retribution and deterrence?
Research reviews by Harris Cooper indicate that the correlation between homework time and test performance is stronger for this group of students.
What are Older students (or high schoolers)?
Taylor Swift’s lyrics from "The Man" ("'Cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man") represent this ACE component because they set up an overarching message regarding societal gender bias.
What is an Argument?
The basic pattern of reasoning that looks at individual cases and forms a general conclusion is called this.
What is Inductive reasoning (or Induction)?
A counterargument should generally never be placed in this section of an essay because a rebuttal paragraph must follow it.
What is the Conclusion?
Cynthia Tucker notes that Georgia attorney William Lumpkin received life in prison instead of the death penalty for beating a man to death because he descended from this social group.
What is Georgia gentry?
Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth, criticizes homework as a reliable extinguisher of this student trait.
What is Curiosity?
NOAA satellite report data documenting global coral bleaching affecting over 75% of reef areas functions as this component.
What is Evidence?
Claims that are necessary for stated premises to lead logically to a conclusion but are not explicitly written down are called this.
What are implicit assumptions (or unstated assumptions)?
In Alec Schiernebeck's speeding fine argument, asking "Does this mean we should slap Mr. Zuckerberg with a $1 million speeding ticket?" plays this structural role.
What is an Objection / Counterargument?
Cynthia Tucker claims that the primary question regarding capital punishment is not "Does John William King deserve the death penalty?", but rather this.
What is "Does America deserve the death penalty?"
In 2017, the Hillsborough, California school district updated its homework policy to ban due dates that fell on the day after these two times.
What are Weekends or Breaks?
In the AP Seminar Rhetorical Triad, presenting credible data or research is insufficient on its own; it must always be paired with this component to explicitly connect the evidence back to the claim and line of reasoning.
What is Analysis (or Explanation)?
An argument that compares two things and draws a conclusion based on their underlying similarities is known as an argument by this.
What is Analogy?
When a writer discovers a valid opposing point, rather than abandoning their thesis, they should do this to incorporate the opposition's valid insights.
What is Refining (or Modifying) the thesis?
In "A Crime of Compassion," nurse Barbara Huttman notes that medical personnel resuscitated terminal cancer patient Mac this many times in a single month.
What is 52 times?
High school teacher Allison Wienhold phased out homework because her students had little time due to working 30 hours a week or having this domestic responsibility.
What is looking after younger siblings?