But argumentative writing is the focus of high school composition. Improving students' logical thinking ability and cultivating profound thinking through argumentative writing training is one of the basic concepts of "New Chinese Curriculum Standards".
In 2003, the composition topic of the college entrance examination was "Emotion and Cognition of Things", which required students to write from the relationship between emotion and cognition. The topic is very philosophical. Candidates' understanding of the relationship between emotion and cognition of things, whether they can dialectically understand and correctly handle the relationship between emotion and reason will determine the quality of the article. Candidates generally feel that the composition is "biased", "difficult" and "strange" because they have little training in argumentative writing and their ideological level is limited. However, judging from the orientation of college entrance examination topic composition in 2003, it is very obvious that college entrance examination composition emphasizes speculation. Therefore, senior three students should pay special attention to argumentative writing training to enhance the speculative nature of their compositions. How to improve the speculative nature of argumentative writing?
The first is to master and apply materialist dialectics.
Materialist dialectics is a science about the most universal law of the development of nature, society and human thinking. Composition training in middle school can not be separated from the cultivation of thinking quality, which is inextricably linked with materialist dialectics, and also makes the composition proposition of college entrance examination inextricably linked with materialist dialectics. Throughout the past 10 years, there are some viewpoints of materialist dialectics.
Materialist dialectics is a compulsory content in senior high school politics class. We should seriously study and master materialist dialectics, pay attention to nature, society and life, pay attention to cultivating the depth and breadth of thinking, improve the sharpness of thinking, and gradually form our own philosophical thoughts. In writing training, we should always pay attention to refining several basic viewpoints commonly used in materialist dialectics, such as opposition and unity, quantitative change and qualitative change, content and form, cause and effect, essence and phenomenon, movement and stillness, inevitability and contingency, perceptual knowledge and rational knowledge, etc., and combine typical examples and philosophical topics to write and practice repeatedly, so as to improve our ideological quality and speculative writing.
Secondly, we should strengthen the training of logical thinking and learn to express our views methodically and rigorously. We should start with the internal logic of sentences, then expand to paragraphs, viewpoints and materials, analyze the internal logical relationship between arguments and general arguments, clarify the internal logical thinking of articles, and overcome the hierarchical shortcomings of upside down, incoherent, rambling and loose chaos.
Third, strengthen argumentation training, learn to clearly express your own views, choose typical materials as arguments according to your own views, support your views with accurate and reliable materials, and make the truth clear and convincing in depth and breadth. Resolutely overcome lies, big talk followed by rhetoric, empty talk, empty and boring preaching.