GMAT考试是用来申请美国商科研究生的一项标准化考试。在此,圣才学习网整理了2017年GMAT写作之层层递进法,以供参考。
第一段:开头段。主要是归纳论点,说明论点有问题,存在逻辑漏洞,准备发起进攻。
第一层:
This
argument concludes/recommends/argues that…
第二层:
To support
this conclusion the writer cites…/points out
that…
第三层:
However,this
argument suffers from several critical flaws and is therefore unconvincing/
unpersuasive as it stands.
第二段和第三段甚至第四段:分类别去攻击各个逻辑错误。(以因果关系类错误为例)
One problem
with the argument is that,the editorial observes a correlation
between… and …,then concludes that the former is
the cause of the latter. However,the
editorial fails to rule out other possible explanations for…For
example,… Any of these factors,or
other social,political or economic factors,might lead
to…Without ruling out all other such factors it is unfair to conclude
that…
第五段:结尾段
作者的结论似乎是合理的,但是通过论证,不是这样的。因此作者在做出决定之前,应该还要考虑其他情况。我们通过一篇文章作为实例来介绍Argument的论证步骤和论证方法以及文章结构。
In the final
analysis,the letter's author fails to adequately support the recommendation
that…To bolster the argument,the arguer
must provide detailed demographic/statistical evidence showing that…The
author must also provide evidence--perhaps by
way of a reliable survey—that…