Dealing With Opposition
It's a straightforward attack on someone else's argument.
What is attacking logic?
What is summarising?
It's the side of an argument that a person takes.
What is a position?
The general term for describing things in terms of comparisons (similes, metaphors, etc.)
What is figurative language?
A common grammatical mistake where two independent clauses are joined together by a comma with no conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
A term that describes an argument that has been qualified to be more limited or layered
What is nuanced?
The primary job of the introduction.
What is orienting the reader?
What is a Perspective?
A description of a thing with the intent to create a picture in the audience's mind, usually employing language related to the senses.
What is imagery?
The emotional meaning or associations that a term carries.
What is connotation?
What is attacking the premises?
The actual job of a conclusion.
What is "leaving the audience with an impact?"
or some variant thereof
The term used to describe how a writer's feelings about a subject in their writing.
What is tone?
The three Greek appeals.
What are Ethos, Logos, and Pathos?
The term for when a paper feels unified and flows properly.
What is coherence?
The term for ceding some or all of an argument to the opposing side.
A common feature in a conclusion that helps further its purpose.
What is a call to action?
In AP terms, the degree to which a source fails to consider alternative perspectives.
What is Bias?
An oblique reference to another great work or concept intended to make a remark more vivid.
What is an allusion?
The part of the sentence that carries the most emphasis.
What is the end?
The catch-all term for moral learning-related practices, especially the avoidance of bias.
What is academic integrity?
or
What is academic honesty?
A common pitfall of introductions that attempt to contextualise their argument in a broader context.
What is a vague generalisation?
It generally leads to oversimplifications or generalisations
What is a lack of understanding?
Using similar sentence structures to reinforce concurrent ideas.
Dropping a word or phrase from a sentence, most often in quotations.
What is elision?