What is an argumentative essay?

Argumentative writing is an article that demonstrates and convinces a thing or truth or puts forward an opinion.

The basic feature of argumentative writing is persuasiveness. Whether it is to demonstrate a thing or a truth, or to criticize and refute other people's views, we must convince the readers and convince them. From the perspective of thinking types, the main task of discussion is to answer the question of "why".

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Argumentative writing is completely different from the narrative we talked about before. When expressing the center or theme, narrative should be expressed with tangible and vivid real life materials, and pictures, scenes, shapes and sounds should be formed in readers' minds. When expressing the argument as the center of the article, argumentative essays basically do not need tangible materials, nor do they need to form pictures, scenes, shapes, sounds, etc. In the reader's mind, it is necessary to prove the argument with powerful facts and profound truth, so as to convince the reader.

In terms of thinking methods, narrative is mainly based on image thinking, while argumentative is mainly based on logical thinking.

Some students don't pay much attention to argumentative writing, and think that argumentative writing is not as important as narrative writing, which is incorrect. Argumentative essays are widely used in life, such as newspaper and radio editorials, work comments, speeches and reports, indictments and petitions in the judicial field, and expressing their views in private letters. In addition, learning argumentative essays is also of great help to personal cultivation. It can cultivate people's quick thinking, thorough analysis, reasonable reasoning and clear and profound speech.

Therefore, we should also pay enough attention to the study of argumentative writing.

Basic requirements of argumentative writing

Argumentative writing consists of four elements: topic, argument, argument and argument. These four elements are closely combined to complete the task of discussion and achieve the purpose of persuading readers.

To learn to write argumentative essays, we should master four questions: first, we should choose meaningful topics; Second, there must be clear arguments; Third, there must be sufficient arguments; Fourth, we must make strong arguments.

Below, we look at these four aspects respectively:

1. Choose a meaningful topic

The first step in argumentative writing is to choose a topic, that is, to choose a question for discussion or comment.

It is very important to choose a meaningful topic, which largely determines the value of the article. So, what kind of topic is meaningful? Generally speaking, there are issues that are targeted and of great concern to everyone. It is more valuable. Therefore, when choosing a topic, you should first think about which group of people your article is aimed at, whether the content you want to talk about is aimed at this group of people and whether it can attract their attention. If all the answers are yes, then the article you wrote is more valuable.

2. Have a clear argument.

Argument is the author's view, proposition or attitude towards the problem under discussion. It is like a theme in the narrative, and it is the center that dominates the whole article.

Just as the narrative theme should be clearly focused, argumentative writing should also have a clearly focused theme-a clear argument. Only when the argument is clear can the materials be well organized and the article be guaranteed to develop in the right direction.

To establish a clear argument, we should start from two aspects: on the one hand, we should make an accurate judgment on what is to be discussed in the article; On the other hand, just like refining the narrative theme, we need to think repeatedly from argument to material, from material to argument, so that the two are consistent and mutually supportive.

If you want to make an accurate judgment on what you want to say, you must be good at thinking and analyzing problems. Things in real life are often very complicated, which requires us to think carefully and analyze carefully to find out the mainstream and essential things. Only arguments that reflect the essence of things are valuable and convincing.

In order to make the materials and arguments consistent with each other and support each other, it is necessary to use inductive and deductive thinking methods to repeatedly think about which existing materials need to be strengthened and which need to be deleted; Is there a contradiction between the argument and the material? Do you need to change it? Only after such repeated thinking can we determine a very clear argument and launch a strong discussion.

3. There are sufficient arguments.

Argument is the material to prove the argument and the basis of the article's persuasiveness.

If you want to make an argument profound and convincing, you must have sufficient arguments. Without sufficient arguments, readers will not be persuaded by you, and even readers will say that you are talking empty words and lies.

How can we make a full argument? There are two main things to do. First, there must be enough factual materials; These materials must also be very typical.

Sufficient factual materials are the first condition to prove the argument. If you want to have enough factual materials, you must first have as many materials as possible. If there are more materials, you can compare and identify them and find out the most convincing materials. Of course, sufficient materials do not mean that the more materials, the better, but whether the argument can be well proved. As long as the argument is sufficient, the less materials used, the better.

The factual materials should be typical, that is to say, the selected materials should be the most representative and can best express the essence of things. Only by using such materials to explain the problem can we play the role of one when ten and make the article more convincing. In order to get such materials, we must first occupy more materials and carefully analyze and compare them; Secondly, we should pay attention to thinking with arguments and choose the most expressive materials.

4. Make a strong argument.

Argumentative writing is to prove an argument with arguments, so that the argument is clear and prominent and has convincing power. Just like narrative writing, we should mobilize various means and methods to make the theme stand out.

A good argument should be rigorous and powerful, that is, the argument is closely related to the argument, the argument effectively proves the argument, and the argument guides the argument well, both of which effectively * * * complete the task of persuading the reader.

As a primary school student, in order to make the argument rigorous and powerful, there are two main problems to master: first, pay attention to the use of correct thinking methods; The second is to carefully organize the organizational materials.

Argumentative writing mainly uses two ways of thinking, namely inductive thinking and deductive thinking. Specific to writing practice, based on these two ways of thinking, people have created a variety of discussion methods that are suitable for it, which we should also master.

Commonly used methods mainly include the following:

For example. It is to prove the argument with the concrete facts that can best express the argument. What we usually call putting facts and reasoning is actually this method. The key of this method is to choose the most representative materials. For example: