First, understand the stylistic features of argumentative writing.
Argumentative essay is a kind of prose with prose style, or it is a prose centered on expounding a certain point of view. It is a marginal style between argumentative writing and prose. The highly stylistic integration of argumentative essays makes them not only have profound rational characteristics, but also vivid and lyrical. From the point of view of discussion, it is argumentative and needs to clarify an argument. As far as its nature is concerned, it is prose, which is a kind of prose juxtaposed with lyric prose and narrative prose, also known as philosophical prose, and pays attention to literary talent and emotion. However, compared with general prose, it discusses more, focusing on expressing some opinions of the author and revealing some truths or philosophies.
The connection and difference between argumentative writing and argumentative writing
In fact, both styles have a clear central argument, and there is internal logic between the content level and the formal structure. The difference is that whether the argumentative paper adopts parallel structure, comparative structure or progressive structure, its argumentation process is extremely strict and the levels are interlocking, which is called "linear structure". The language of argumentative writing, especially in the application of arguments, is also highly generalized because of its simplicity, standardization and solemnity. Argumentative writing, because of its stylistic characteristics, has a loose process of elaboration and analysis. It is called "block structure" because it only makes sense to attach the captured image or scene to the explanation. Influenced by style, the language of argumentative writing should be vivid, lyrical and descriptive.
From this perspective, image beauty and rationality are the most essential stylistic features of argumentative writing.
Second, the argumentative writing requirements
1. Writing method
(1) decomposes the central argument of the full text into several sub-arguments. This way is similar to the way in which the general argument is divided into several sub-arguments for logical arrangement in argumentative writing. It not only makes the argumentative paper structure beautiful and orderly, but also makes the reasoning coherent and profound, highlighting the "rational" characteristics of the argumentative paper. This writing is similar to the parallel structure of argumentative writing.
(2) Fragment combination. In other words, the full text runs through the central argument, and several fragments are selected vertically or horizontally to form a written text. Its fragments can describe people or scenes with wonderful details, but between fragments, as well as between the beginning, the end and the title, the theme should be highlighted, and the theme should be strengthened by literary arguments and lyrical methods. The structure of the whole text should be as similar as possible, forming a neat form and echoing from afar. This kind of writing is very common.
2. Reasoning method
Argumentative essays are essentially philosophical essays, which clarify philosophy, express opinions and use literary techniques, especially in:
(1) expounds philosophy with natural scenery and people as images. All people in the world have their own spirituality. The "flowing water", "falling flowers" and "stars" in nature all contain rational thinking through imagination; Thinkers and poets in social life, heroes and ordinary workers in Qian Qian's works all give people philosophical thinking. As long as we capture all kinds of images in life with full passion and keen eyes, with the help of analogy and association, it is not difficult to find that these images give us profound philosophical enlightenment all the time.
(2) Use metaphors to explain the philosophy of life. Rational things make people understand quickly and simply, but they lack a sense of concreteness and image, making it difficult for people to enjoy the aesthetic feeling of art. Argumentative writing focuses on understanding. Without a specific image, it is very easy to fall into the quagmire of empty preaching, which is boring. Metaphor, on the other hand, chooses tangible things as metaphors to illustrate ontology, so as to explain philosophy, thus achieving the purpose of turning abstraction into concreteness and adding luster to articles.
3. Language is rational, but it is particularly vivid and lyrical.
Comprehensive use of various rhetorical devices, poetic language; Quoting many famous poems and sentences has profound cultural implications. It can be said that the difference between argumentative writing and argumentative writing lies not in the structure, but in this vivid and lyrical language.
Here, we should pay special attention to two outstanding features of argumentative language:
(1) The whole and scattered sentences are scattered alternately.
The combination of whole and scattered argumentative writing. What is overall dispersion? A whole sentence refers to a sentence with the same or similar structure and neat form. Loose sentences refer to sentences with inconsistent structures and irregular forms. These two sentence patterns have different styles. The whole sentence has the beauty of neatness, and the scattered sentences have the beauty of strewn at random. The rhetorical devices of the whole sentence are mainly duality, parallelism, overlap, circulation, stratification and repetition.
(2) Language is full of emotion and picturesque.
The language of argumentative writing should show the picture through concrete and emotional description, and also include one's own views.
Editor: Heart Table