When students get to middle school, whether it is junior high school or senior high school, argumentative essays can't be bypassed. To learn to write an argumentative essay, we must first know what an argumentative essay is.

Argumentative writing is a kind of style with "discussion" as the main expression. It is a kind of training "style" in Chinese teaching in primary and secondary schools, just like narrative and expository texts.

This style requires that one's own views, opinions or propositions be clearly put forward and expounded in the article, and demonstrated through logical forms such as concepts, judgments and reasoning or with the help of appropriate argumentation methods, so as to persuade readers to accept their own views and propositions. Argumentative writing lies in convincing people with reasoning, also known as "reasoning".

According to the way of argument, it can be divided into two parts: thesis and refutation; According to the content, it can be divided into post-reading, ideological comments, political comments, economic comments, literary comments, academic papers and so on. According to the different ways of discussion, it can be divided into two kinds: proof based on argument and clarification based on discussion. Of course, many articles are comprehensive, such as the combination of argument and refutation, and the combination of discussion and proof. An argumentative essay, no matter what type it belongs to, generally consists of four elements: title, argument, argument and argument.

The thesis is what the author wants to discuss in the argumentative essay. It stipulates the direction and scope of argumentative writing.

Argumentative essay is the viewpoint, opinion and proposition put forward by the author in argumentative essay, and it is a judgment that needs to be demonstrated and proved. It is the core of an argumentative essay, the answer to the topic, and the part of the article that needs to be expounded, explained and confirmed before it can be accepted by readers.

Thesis and argument are two related but different concepts. The thesis is the question raised by the author in the argumentative essay, and the argument is the author's answer to this question. For example, Mao Zedong's "Where does man's correct thinking come from? "Where did people's correct thoughts come from" is the topic of this article, not the argument of this article; And "people's correct thinking can only come from social practice" is the argument of the article and the answer to the topic.