Comprehensive Guide to Writing Argumentative Essays in Junior High

Author: Fang Cheng et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is divided into two parts. The first part includes the first three articles of the book. These three articles aim to introduce the necessity and importance of writing argumentative essays, explain that learning argumentation is a fundamental quality for individuals to stand in society, and illustrate that argumentative discourse originates from life, emphasizing a macro and rational understanding of argumentative essays. The second part is the main body of the book. Since middle school students' scope of thinking is not yet broad, the editors have proposed dozens of topics based on students' observation and range of thinking. Each topic is accompanied by corresponding examples and arguments (including factual arguments and theoretical arguments). This way, readers have both a reference to complete articles and answers to argumentative materials. This book is a reference tool for middle school students to write argumentative essays, and its tool-like nature is reflected in the second part. Each topic's "viewpoint confirmation" is somewhat similar to topic explanations, providing a general or approximate definition of the viewpoint to give readers a basic understanding of the topic and inspire them to determine the content, gain new perspectives, and achieve depth. Each topic's "close reading of selected works" chooses some excellent masterpieces, which are exemplary and also serve as guidance for writing training.