6-Supporting-Your-Ideas-模仿训练.pptVIP

6 Supporting Your Ideas Lily Zhang One day, one of your classmates told you that: “Hey, Tomorrow’s class is canceled.” What would you do? Why should I believe you? Where do you get the information? Do you have any prove? Example: Topic: Tea Which statement do you find most interesting? Most convincing? Focus of this chapter: What: The basic kinds of supporting materials; How: General principles for using them effectively and responsibly Type 1: Examples Example: a specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people, ideas, conditions, experiences, or the like. Types of examples Brief example A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point. Extended example A story, narrative, or anecdote developed at some length to illustrate a point. Here is a story about… Hypothetical example An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation. Suppose/let’s imagine/let’s guess… Tips for using examples: Make examples vivid and richly textured; Reinforce examples with statistics or testimony; Words and phrases For example(instance),... ... such as A,B,C and so on (so forth) A good case in point is... A particular example for this is... - A good example (of this) is... - ...for example... - For instance... - As an example (of this)... - To take an example... - To illustrate this... - By way of an example... - An illustration of this is... - We can illustrate this by... - We can demonstrate this by... - This can be seen in the following (illustration). - Take X, for example. - Imagine... - How does this work in practice? 谈论细节问题 - More specifically... - To take one specific aspect of this... - Let’s focus on one aspect of this... - One point bears closer examination... - If we can concentrate on one aspect of this for a moment... - there is one detail that is worth focusing on... - Let’s go into this in more detail. - Upon closer examination/investigation... 澄清观点 - I will try and put that more c