The essay writing in the essay, commonly known as the essay, is the focus and difficulty in the essay exam, and it is also the hardest piece of the essay question type. Many candidates lose marks so badly in the article writing part that they even fail to write. This article will give you an exploration of question types and an introduction to some methods on how to write a large essay.

1. Analysis of question type characteristics

Let me first introduce to you the article writing question types for the 2014-2016 national examinations at the provincial and ministerial levels and above:

? Defined information 3 quotes the words from "The Analects": "If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand up." ?Please use this sentence as the central topic, connect it with social reality, draw up your own topic, and write an article. (35 points)

Requirements: Choose your own perspective and have profound insights; refer to the "given information", but do not stick to the "given information"; have clear ideas and fluent language; the total number of words is 1,000~1,200 words. (2016 National Civil Servant Recruitment Examination Paper)

The underlined sentence in 6 of the given information reads: "The vitalization of technology" has become an ineradicable feature of the real world. Technology will become human. ?Please combine your thoughts on this sentence with social reality, draw up a topic of your own, and write an article. (40 points)

Requirements: (1) Choose your own perspective and have clear and profound insights; (2) Refer to the given information, but do not stick to the given information; (3) Clear thinking and fluent language; ( 4) The total number of words is 1000-1200 words. (2015 National Civil Service Examination Application Paper)

?Given the information? At the end, it is written? We should probably, as the writer Milan Kundera said, ?slow down?, because we are free to do something. Life cannot be rushed. ?Please combine your thoughts on this sentence, your own feelings and social practice, write a topic of your own, and write an article. (40 points)

Requirements: (1) Choose your own perspective and have profound insights. (2) Refer to the "given information", but not limited to the "given information". (3) Clear thinking and fluent language. (4) A total of 1,000 to 1,200 words. (2014 National Civil Service Examination Application Paper)

It can be seen from the topic settings of the provincial and ministerial level national examination essay writing in the past three years that first of all, in the question stem, the purpose of the article writing is often It is based on a sentence or an idea in a certain piece of material, and starting from this sentence or this idea to write an article. And it is basically in the form of a self-proposition, that is, a self-made topic. In terms of writing requirements, there is a very important similarity, that is, refer to the given information, but not stick to the given information. This requires candidates not to look for material in the materials too much, especially for some candidates. I am used to excerpting sentences directly from the materials, which is a very taboo in article writing. The theme and main points of the article writing can be summarized from the materials, but you must add your own opinions. This is not only a requirement for the candidate's ability in the essay examination, but also a requirement for the essay writing genre. If there are no special requirements for the current essay writing, Basically, they are in the form of argumentative essays, and the basic requirement of argumentative essays is to have arguments, arguments and demonstration methods.

When writing argumentative essays for application, we must first establish an awareness that what we are taking is a civil service recruitment examination, and the article we write must be an article that takes a stand from the government’s standpoint and examines objective phenomena. There are in-depth analysis and insightful civil servant articles. In terms of content, candidates are recommended to refer to the People's Daily commentator articles. Many candidates do not have this understanding, and the articles they write cannot get rid of their inherent thinking, resulting in low scores. Therefore, the argumentative essay of a civil servant does not depend on how wonderful your writing is and how gorgeous your rhetoric is, but because the argumentative essay written by the candidate can tell that the candidate has the potential to enter the civil service system.

2. Integration of ideas

When writing an argumentative essay, you must first find a central argument through the materials, that is, determine the central argument through the principle of integrity of the reading materials , the principle of integrity means that every piece of material in the essay does not exist in isolation, but has an inherent logical relationship, and each set of essay questions will have a theme, and this theme will run through the entire essay material. Therefore, candidates must have an overall grasp of the application materials, which is the principle of integrity. Especially when writing articles, article writing often requires looking for materials based on all materials, and it also requires candidates to accurately grasp the theme of the materials. Therefore, when reading and analyzing the materials, candidates are best able to summarize each item during the question-taking process. The central argument of the material will help us write better articles of higher quality.

Candidates must grasp the theme and intention of the application materials, that is, they must understand what the entire material is talking about. The central argument often matches the title. Sometimes, especially in propositional questions (that is, the title of the article is given in the question stem), the title is the central argument.

Therefore, the central argument must be accurately identified. This is the backbone of our article writing. When writing, we must highlight the central argument at the beginning of the article. Generally, the method of "topic preparation + pointing directly to the center" is adopted, that is, focusing on the material content first. Write some relevant foreshadowing words, you can talk about the current situation or give some examples, and then highlight the central argument of the article. For example: The barrel principle holds that the determining factor of a barrel's water capacity is not the longest board, but the shortest board. It tells us that disadvantages determine advantages and we cannot ignore the weaknesses of things. At present, the country advocates vigorously developing the rural economy, but the protection of rural culture lags far behind. Rural culture has become a shortcoming in the development of rural society. The protection of rural culture determines whether the rural economy can develop sustainably and healthily. Therefore, we must pay attention to the construction of rural culture.

After finding the central argument, you need to discuss it from different angles, that is, find the sub-arguments. Generally speaking, the central idea of ??each material can often be used as a sub-argument. Candidates can find out through practice that the argument materials Among them, the theme is often deconstructed from different angles, and if we can extract the central idea of ??each material during the question, it can be used as our analysis angle. When choosing a good angle to discuss, be careful not to use "theory to discuss theory", that is to say, you should not write the content dryly, but add some examples, that is, arguments. The arguments can come from the application materials or from the argument. Facts in life can be opinions or cases. When discussing, you should choose some argumentation methods to combine arguments and arguments. For example, you can use the parallelism method and the contrast method, but the more general method is the deduction method, which means to deduce the points and truths you want to explain step by step to achieve the goal. logical effect.

In the process of writing points, candidates can approach it from three perspectives: cause, impact, and countermeasures. For example, in the 2016 essay, "If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand up," you can learn from Discuss from the perspective of the important impact of etiquette and Mingli on the country and individuals, and add countermeasures or reasons in the writing process, that is, why learning etiquette and Mingli are of great significance to the country and individuals; and? Time is speechless, but stone can speak. ?This article can be written from the perspective of countermeasures to protect cultural heritage, or it can be written from the perspective of the importance or impact of cultural heritage on social development. In the writing process, reasons, countermeasures, or both can be added. Therefore, causes, effects, and countermeasures are complementary to each other. When writing an article, it is often difficult to write the first sentence. Therefore, you can choose one of the above three perspectives that is easier to write, and then use the other two. To supplement, for example, start with countermeasures, and then discuss the reasons for proposing this countermeasure or the impact of this countermeasure. Here, candidates should pay attention to that once countermeasures are involved, try to write countermeasures that can be implemented, and do not talk about countermeasures; if If you start with influence, either positive meaning or negative harm, then you can explain the reasons for this influence. For example, in the article about family tradition, you first point out the positive meaning of good family tradition, and then discuss why good family tradition is so important. influence, and then come up with countermeasures on how to promote good family tradition. Therefore, when discussing sub-points, the angle must be used flexibly and not rigidly. For example: strengthening publicity and education and raising environmental awareness of all sectors of society are the basic ways to do a good job in marine work. For a long period of time, my country's coastal areas, under the guidance of purely pursuing economic development, have regarded economic development as their primary task, while ignoring the bearing capacity of the marine environment. From the government to coastal enterprises and coastal residents, no one realizes the importance of marine environmental protection. Therefore, it is particularly important to do a good job in publicity and education under this background. In Japan, the national awareness of marine environment protection is very high. This should be mainly attributed to the Japanese government's long-term insistence on marine policy education. Japanese primary and secondary school textbooks have long included articles about the marine environment as teaching materials, educating students to be aware of the marine environment from an early age. to the importance of a healthy marine environment, so Japanese citizens as a whole have a full understanding of the importance of the marine environment. In this regard, our country can also fully learn from Japan's practices and improve citizens' awareness of the importance of the marine environment. This is explained in the form of countermeasures + reasons for the existence or occurrence of the problem + arguments.

3. De-template

When writing articles, candidates can refer to some excellent sample essays, but do not regard a certain type of sample essay as a guideline for writing. They must use their free will , write your own style, there is no fixed template for article writing, what is more needed is the understanding of the material and the accumulation and application of your own knowledge. And when writing the essay, candidates should not plagiarize too much materials, including arguments. The arguments can be quoted from the materials, but they must be briefly described. The focus is on the analysis of the arguments, that is, the process of seeing the essence through phenomena. For example, in the 2016 Hebei Joint Entrance Examination article writing "The Mountain in the Heart of Entrepreneurs", when talking about the motivations of entrepreneurs to start a business, examples of social entrepreneurs can be cited, but the examples of each of them cannot be discussed in detail, but in the context of "Who?" What did you do? How? will be discussed, followed closely by the analysis of the cases. These cases reflect that in order for entrepreneurs to succeed, they should not just be oriented by monetary interests, but should also be oriented towards repaying society and creating society. Benefit is the goal, we strive for it diligently and constantly innovate, thereby promoting social progress.

Finally, candidates should pay attention to that during the exam, the writing should be closer to the country’s major policies and social and economic development and other macro directions. Especially at the end, they must return to the main purpose while also reflecting on the future. development prospects. And the title should be drafted last as much as possible, so as to ensure that the content of the article matches the title to the greatest extent and avoid going off topic.