1. Revolutionary/ Age of Reason/ The Art of the Argument
Enlightenment Vocab
Revolutionary/ Age of Reason/ The Art of the Argument

2. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
Rhetoric
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

3. Your position, or belief, on an issue
Position Statement
Your position, or belief, on an issue

4. Reasons that support your position
Claims
Reasons that support your position

5. Counter Claims/ Counter Argument
Argument against the support of an opposing position

6. The specific reader you have in mind for your argument
Audience
The specific reader you have in mind for your argument

7. The aim of your argument
Purpose
The aim of your argument

8. The time, place, and situation of an argument
Setting (Kairos)
The time, place, and situation of an argument

9. Appealing to one’s sense of emotion
Pathos
Appealing to one’s sense of emotion

10. Appealing to one’s sense of logic
Logos
Appealing to one’s sense of logic

11. Appealing to one’s sense of trust
Ethos
Appealing to one’s sense of trust

12. Logical Fallacy
a flaw in reasoning. Logical fallacies are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people.

13. Red Herring
An idiom that refers to a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the actual issue

14. If everyone else believes something, you will too.
Bandwagon
If everyone else believes something, you will too.

15. Ad Hominem
Argument made personally against an opponent instead of against their argument.
Abusive
Tu Quoque
Circumstantial
Guilt by Association
Ad Feminam

16. An assumption that because A happened before B, A caused B
False Causality
An assumption that because A happened before B, A caused B

17. A conclusion based on too little evidence
Over-Generalization
A conclusion based on too little evidence