Unit 1
Arduous
What is an adjective meaning "extremely difficult to achieve"?
Exacerbate
What is a verb meaning "to make more severe; to intensify"?
Affluence
What is a noun meaning "abundance of wealth"?
Candor
What is a noun meaning "frankness or honesty"?
Indemnity
What is a noun meaning protection against loss or damage?
Types of Evidence
What are examples, testimony/opinions, anecdotes, and facts/statistics/data?
Technical vocabulary
What are specialized terms that relate to industrial, mechanical, scientific, medical, financial, and high-tech professional fields?
Common Organizational Text Structures
What are problem-and-solution, cause-and-effect, comparison-and-contrast, proposition-and-support, chronological and sequential?
Antithesis
When authors juxtapose words or ideas, or place them in relation to each other, what is it called?
Toulmin Model of Argument
What are claim, reasons, evidence, anticipated counterclaim (or rebuttal), and warrant (or backing)?
Author’s Task
What is the assignment or work that an author needs to do?
Thesis Statement
What is the sentence that states the main idea of a writing assignment and helps control the ideas within the paper?
Types of Graphs
What are bar graph, line graph, & circle graph/pie chart?
Warrant
What is the writer’s belief or value that creates an implied connection between your claim and your “because” statements?
Requirements of the Conclusion
What are restatement of thesis statement and additional closure elements?