1, the beginning of clear vision;

2. Stick to the theme to the end;

3. There are thematic sentences and natural middle paragraphs.

Of these three points, 1 and 2 have long been known by most students in China, because the topic at the beginning and the topic at the end are also the requirements of China's article. However, in the long-term learning process, such requirements are regarded as "old-fashioned" by many students and have not received enough attention. If this idea is brought into English argumentative writing, the direct consequence will be that the center is scattered and the views are unclear. In addition, China students' general English expression ability is not strong, which will lay a hidden danger for the failure of the whole article.

In addition, the difference between English articles and Chinese is that according to Chinese writing habits, the topic sentence of a paragraph must be placed at the beginning of the paragraph, not in the middle or at the end, especially in English exam-oriented writing. Without the concept of "topic sentence", China students often "write whatever comes to mind" when writing English articles, which is unacceptable in English argumentative writing. For example, the first sentence of each paragraph in 1 briefly summarizes the main contents of the paragraph. In other words, the contents of each paragraph are expanded according to the first sentence, and the order cannot be reversed.

(The cohesion of paragraphs will be introduced in detail later. )

(2) the center is unified

On the issue of central unity, the concepts of English argumentative writing and Chinese argumentative writing are also different. China people often follow the "golden mean" when writing argumentative essays, which is reflected in the belief that there is nothing absolute in the world. When they praise a thing or phenomenon in an article, they always point out its shortcomings; Similarly, when criticizing a thing or phenomenon, we don't forget to point out that it is also reasonable. This practice is not wrong in theory, but it does not conform to the habit of writing English argumentative essays, because English writers pay attention to their own debating skills and the influence of the results on the public when writing argumentative essays. In other words, if the author tells everyone that both sides are reasonable, it means that both sides are unreasonable, because readers still don't know what the author thinks after reading the article, and they don't know what to do in this situation.

Therefore, since CET-4 is an English argumentative essay, everyone should follow the thinking and habit of writing English argumentative essays: support clearly; If you express your opposition, you will completely oppose it, and you can't take the "two sides down" approach. Take the above example 1 as an example. If the author's view is that "lucky numbers are both reasonable and unreasonable", this view is unacceptable, because in English,