Writing expository articles (abbreviated as papers) has always been a headache, because there are often cases of unclear logic, confused concepts and inconsistencies. Recently, when I was reading the book Critical Thinking, I saw some methods of writing expository articles, and found them very useful, so I summarized them for future reference.

This paper mainly launches from the following three aspects:

The biggest problem in writing a paper is ambiguity. In the thesis, it is necessary to express the position on the theme and provide arguments to support this position. If the description in the paper is vague, the power of argument will be greatly reduced.

Ambiguity mainly includes the following types:

The solution to the above problems is to define.

In the process of writing, I found that this is not only suitable for writing papers, but also suitable for debate competitions, which is really a windfall.