在雅思写作中,想要让观点站得住脚,光靠空洞的喊话远远不够。真正能打动考官的,往往是那些具体、可信、有画面感的支撑材料。无论是个人经历、统计数据,还是报道,本质上都是雅思写作中论据的几种常见形态。下面就从三个角度来拆解,看看如何把论据用得更漂亮。
一、摆事实
摆事实是指在行文当中描述一些自己或者熟知的亲友的经历。目的是向考官展示我们对语言的驾驭能力,通过事实得到考官的共鸣。例如:
First, ads disturb our life. Surely, we all have the experience that an insert of the information about a product often interrupts our pleasure of watching an exciting film on T.V, which makes us so annoyed that sometimes we have the impulse to call the T.V station to make a complaint。
What’s more annoying is that you have spent money on a newspaper, but you’ll find that most of the space in the newspaper is occupied by all kinds of disgusting ads about a medicine of dealing with sexual diseases, which has totally violated your previous desire of getting the news about what is happening。
二、列数字
实际上,很多英文文章会发现很多作者会列举一些调查和研究成果来证明自己的观点,这样是比较符合欧美国家人的习惯。比如:
Ad is an effect way to develop economy. As is calculated by the Statistic Bureau of China, 80% of the products in China are promoted and marketed by ads, which has brought almost 20 billion incomes as the tax to the country。
Meanwhile, with the prosperity of ads industry, more job cancies are created and more revenue is added to the GDP of China。
三、做引用
中国学生最擅长的就是引经据典,但是在雅思考试当中,我们一般不引用名人名言,除非我们引用的是一个领域里面的,是众所周知的人,比如孔子、亚里士多德、柏拉图等人的名言;或者经过证实了的,或者是报纸和电视上的报道等,例如:
In recent time, more and more cases have been reported in newspaper and TV programs about the surprisingly increasing rate of children’s crimes. The situation has become so serious that it has aroused great concern of the whole community。
说到底,论据的选择没有的高下之分,关键在于是否贴合题目语境。摆事实重共鸣,列数字重说服,做引用重——三种方式可以穿插使用,让文章张弛有度。只要平时多观察、多积累,在考场上自然能信手拈来。记住,任何华丽的辞藻都比不上一个恰如其分的论据,这或许就是雅思写作中论据的真正价值所在。