Argumentative Terms

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Across
  1. 2. the main point of the essay
  2. 5. premise related but more specific statement
  3. 7. what you expect your argument to accomplish
  4. 8. form of deductive argument
  5. 10. form of comparison between an unfamiliar to a familiar things
  6. 11. statements that most people agree are true and can be verified
  7. 13. presenting ideas as if they were your own
  8. 15. knowledge information you can easily find in several sources
  9. 16. inference that connects claim to grounds
  10. 17. reasoning method of moving from a general premise to a specific conclusion
  11. 20. essential to making the strongest case possible
  12. 22. so obvious that it needs no proof
  13. 24. statement that is the opposite of what you're arguing
  14. 25. facts and opinions in support of your position
Down
  1. 1. illogical statements that sound reasonable or true
  2. 3. premise general statement
  3. 4. appeal to reason
  4. 6. interpretations of facts
  5. 9. the material a write uses to support their claim
  6. 12. logic method that describes how writers framed their argument
  7. 14. s statement about the unknown based on the known
  8. 18. reasoning method of moving from evidence to conclusion
  9. 19. question to be answered
  10. 21. leap the connection made between evidence to conclusion
  11. 23. the position you will argue