Prose: It is a blank prose with explanatory style, which is relatively free in style and manner. The author uses his own personal views, styles, ways and intonation to express his chosen theme, which is generally not long.

Argumentative essay: Argumentative essay, also called argumentative essay, is to reason and discuss right and wrong. The author expounds his point of view through factual materials and logical reasoning, and shows what he is for or against. Prose belongs to the broad category of prose, and narrative prose can also be classified as narrative prose.

2. Different schools

Prose refers to a literary and artistic genre with writing as its creation and aesthetic object, and it is a genre form in literature. In ancient China literature, prose is opposite to verse and parallel prose, and it does not pursue rhyme and sentence order. This is prose in a broad sense. In China's modern literature, prose refers to a literary genre as famous as poetry, novel and drama. This is prose in a narrow sense.

Argumentative writing is a common style that takes argumentation as the main way of expression, and directly expresses the author's views and opinions by putting facts and reasoning. It is different from narration to express the author's thoughts and feelings indirectly with vivid narration.

It is also different from expository writing, which focuses on introducing or explaining the shape, nature, causes and functions of things. In a word, argumentative writing is an article that convinces people with reasoning, while narrative writing and expository writing are articles that move people with things and teach people with knowledge.

Extended data

First, the characteristics of prose

1. Form scattered but spirit gathered: "Form scattered" not only refers to a wide range of subjects and diverse writing methods, but also refers to a free and eclectic structure; "Spiritual gathering" refers not only to the central concentration, but also to the clues that run through the whole text. Prose writers and writers are only superficial phenomena. Fundamentally speaking, they write about emotional experiences. Emotional experience is an "inseparable god", and people and things are dispensable, more or less "scattered" "shape".

"Form and dispersion" mainly means that prose is widely used and free, and is not limited by time and space; Expression techniques are not limited to one pattern: it can describe the development of events, describe characters, convey feelings with things, and make comments. The author can freely adjust and change according to the needs of the content.

"Distraction" mainly comes from the intention of prose, that is, the theme to be expressed in prose must be clear and concentrated, no matter how extensive the content of prose is and how flexible the expression is, it serves to better express the theme.

2. Far-reaching artistic conception: pay attention to expressing the author's life feelings, and be lyrical and sincere. With the help of imagination and association, the author writes from the superficial to the deep, from the real to the imaginary, in turn, which can integrate feelings into the scenery, send feelings to help each other, express the author's true feelings, realize the unity of things and me, show more profound thoughts and make readers understand more profound truths.

Second, the hierarchy of argumentative essays

Hierarchical structure, also known as progressive structure and hierarchical structure, is a structural model that goes from shallow to deep, step by step and excavates vertically according to logical relations. There are two main types of progressive type:

First, when the central argument is divided into several sub-arguments, the relationship between these sub-arguments is from shallow to deep, from simple to complex. Such as "not only ... but also" and "besides" can be used to transition between levels. This structure is commonly known as the "bamboo shoot peeling method", which "peels the shell" layer by layer and finally reveals the essence.

The second is to arrange the argument structure according to the idea of "asking questions, analyzing problems and solving problems", that is, to write in the order of "what → why → how". The advantages of this argument structure are clear hierarchy, strict logic and profound argument.

When using the hierarchical structure, we should pay attention to the following points: first, the relationship between the parts of the hierarchical structure should be appropriate, in line with people's cognitive laws, and should not be reversed at will; Second, the transition between the progressive parts should be natural, and some transitional words should be used to connect the front and back; Third, when writing in the order of "what → why → how", you should clearly answer the contents of each part.

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