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| 4781808769 | Claim | States the arguments main idea or position; assertion or proposition. | 0 | |
| 4781808770 | Warrant | Expresses the assumption necessarily shared by the speaker and the audience | 1 | |
| 4781808772 | Argument | A persuasive discourse, a coherent and consider movement from a claim to the conclusion. | 2 | |
| 4781808773 | Rogerian Arguments | Based on the assumption that having a full understanding of an opposing position is the essential to responding to it persuasively and refuting it in a way that is accommodating rather than alienating. | 3 | |
| 4782491744 | Claims of Fact | Assert that something is true or not true | 4 | |
| 4782537334 | Claim of Value | Argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. | 5 | |
| 4782558986 | Claim of Policy | Proposes a change | 6 | |
| 4782627180 | Closed Thesis | Statement if the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make; often includes the word because. | 7 | |
| 4782684044 | Counterargument Thesis | A summary of a counterargument, usually qualified by although or but, precedes the writers opinion | 8 | |
| 4799917780 | Logical Fallacies | Potential vulnerabilities or weakness in an argument; failure to make a logical connection between the claim and the evidence used to support the claim. | 9 | |
| 4799986971 | Red Herring | Speaker skips to a new and irrelevant topic in order to avoid the topic of discussion | 10 | |
| 4800000830 | Ad Hominem Fallacy | Tactic of the switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the speaker | 11 | |
| 4800042220 | Faulty Analogy | When an analogy compares two things that are not comparable | 12 | |
| 4800452572 | Straw Man Fallacy | When a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to refute an opponents viewpoint | 13 | |
| 4800472910 | False Dilemma(Either/or) | The speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices | 14 | |
| 4800518361 | Hasty Generalization | Not enough evidence to support a particular conclusion | 15 | |
| 4800518362 | Circular Reasoning | Repeating the claim as a way to provide evidence resulting in no evidence at all. Ex. You can't give me a C; I am an A student | 16 | |
| 4800534820 | First-hand Evidence | Some thing you know; personal experience, anecdotes, current events | 17 | |
| 4800576680 | Second-hand Evidence | Accessed through research, reading, and investigation; historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data. Citing what someone else knows | 18 | |
| 4806054449 | Ad Populum/ Bandwagon | Evidence boils down to, "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do" | 19 | |
| 4806257504 | Open Thesis | Does not list all of the points the writer intends to say. | 20 | |
| 4806257505 | Quantitative Evidence | Things that can be represented in numbers: statistics, surveys, polls, census information | 21 | |
| 4883126715 | Appeal to False Authority | An effort to strengthen an argument by referring an "authority" who is impressive but does not have expertise | 22 | |
| 4883210744 | Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc/ False Cause | Inferring that because one thing happened after another there is a casual relationship between the two events | 23 | |
| 4911682611 | Begging the Question | Requires the reader to accept a conclusion without providing evidence | 24 |
