Glossary
Barry Mauer and John Venecek
- analysis
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examination of the elements or structure of something.
- arguments
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reasons given to persuade others that a belief or action is right or wrong.
- counterclaims
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arguments that could be raised against yours
- criteria
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a standard by which something may be judged.
- critical race theory
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Investigates racial disparities embedded in political, economic, legal, and social systems.
- disinterestedness
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They are not invested in a particular outcome and stand to gain or lose nothing by taking a side in a dispute.
- ethos
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The character of a speaker or rhetor.
- hypothesis
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A provisional claim that requires further information and testing to verify.
- interrogative
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Posing and answering questions
- interrogatory
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A form of writing that anticipates reader's questions and answers them, anticipates follow-up questions and answers those, and so on.
- Monograph
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A monograph is a specialist work of writing or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject. For more information, visit: Wikipedia
- Positing
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assume as a fact; put forward as a basis of argument.
Definition from Oxford Languages
- scholarly monographs
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a book-length treatment of a single topic usually by a single author
