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💬AP Seminar
Key Terms

74 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your AP Seminar exam

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Most-studied AP Seminar key terms

The AP Seminar terms students look up most, with a definition for each.

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A

Argument
Argument structure
Attribution
Audience Engagement
Author's Argument

B

Bias
Big Idea 4: Synthesize Ideas
Big Ideas

C

Central argument
Central Theme
Claims
Claims Connection to Evidence
Coherence
Coherent
Commentary
Context
Counterargument
Counterclaim
Credibility

D

Deductive reasoning

E

End of Course (EoC) Exam
Environmental lens
Essential Questions (EQs)
Establish Argument
Ethical lens
Evaluating Sources and Evidence
Evidence

F

Fallacy
Faulty generalization

G

Group Facilitation

I

Implications of Arguments
Individual Multi-media Presentation (IMP)
Individual Research Report
Individual Research Report (IRR)
Individual Written Argument
Individual Written Argument (IWA)
Inductive reasoning
Inquiry

L

Line of Reasoning

M

Multiple Perspectives

O

Oral Defense

P

Performance Task 1 (PT 1)
Perspective
Perspectives
Political and Historical Lens

Q

Qualifier

R

RAVEN template
Rebuttal
Reflection
Refutation
Reliable evidence
Replication
Research Methodology
Research Question
Researchable

S

Select and Use Evidence
Sentence structure
Stakeholder
Stimulus Materials
Stimulus Packet
Stimulus Texts
Structure
Synthesis

T

Team Multimedia Presentation
Team Multimedia Presentation (TMP)
Theme
Thesis
Thesis Statement
Trustworthy Source

U

Understanding Argument
Unintended consequences

V

Valid argument

W

Word choice
Worldview