What is the purpose of assertion?

What does counterclaim serve?

Which is the central argument of a text?

Which stylistic approach or technique involves a strong declaration regarding a belief or fact?

Why are both claim and counterclaim essential in critical reading?

You can easily determine one’ assertion once you are done reading a certain text.

Textual evidence should be identified first before making a claim or assertion.

Textual evidence is needed to support one’s claim and counterclaim.

Determining textual evidence will make one’s claim valid.

Textual evidence are conspicuously written by the writers.