Essential Terms to Review

Make sure that you know what these terms mean (they are all contained in this resource) because they will be crucial to your success in working with arguments in this course and to understanding feedback on your writing.

  • Stasis (Existence, Procedure/Jurisdiction, Definition, Cause / Effect, Value, Comparison, Policy)

  • Claim

  • Grounds

  • STAR Questions (Sufficiency, Typicality, Accuracy, Relevance)

  • Warrant

  • Enthymeme

  • Backing

  • Qualifier

  • Rebuttal

  • Counterargument

  • Straw-manning

  • Synthesis

  • Fake Synthesis (Type 1, Type 2, Type 3)

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