Persuasive Writing
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The Vocabulary of Writing1. essay - short writing of someone's opinion
2. sentence - a group of words that gives a complete thought 3. paragraph - a group of sentences on one topic 4. rhetoric - writing that is persuasive 5. synonym - a word that means almost the same 6. subject - who or what a sentence or study is about 7. clause - a group of words containing a subject and a verb 8. phrase - two or more words together that are not a complete sentence 9. plagiarize - to present someone else's ideas as your own 10. paraphrase - to rewrite in different words 11. cite - to quote as support for something 12. citation - a documentation of the source of information 13. reference - a word often used as a source 14. revise - to change in order to improve 15. rubric - a description of what makes up a good paper The Language of Research1. URL - a web address
2. data - information that is collected 3. population - a total number of people in a group' 4. quiestionnaire - a ilst of questions 5. survey - to ask a group of people the same questions 6. sample - a small part of a larger population 7. mean - the answer that results after adding all the numbers and dividing by the number of numbers 8. median - the number in the middle of a group of numbers 9. mode - the number that occurs the most often 10. percentage - part or all of a group 11. range - the difference between the lowest and highest points in a group 12. search engine - a web site that looks through millions of files for something 13. statistics - facts in the form of numbers 14. generalize - to make a guess based on a small amount of information The Language of Debate1. debate - to argue both sides of a topic
2. fact - something proven to be true 3. opinion - a feeling or belief 4. quote - to write exactly what someone said 5. resolve - make a firm decision to do something 6. proposition - a subject debated on 7. evidence - facts and examples that prove something 8. persuade - to try to convince something 9. contention - a strong statement to support one side of an argument 10. affirmative side - side that supports the proposition 11. negative side - side that opposes the proposition 12. oppose - to be against something 13. rebuttal - a response to a counterargument 14. concede - to admit that someone else it right 15. counterargument - an opposing argument or response |