IELTS Essay: Support or Oppose?

 

 
  IELTS Essay: Support or Oppose?
 
A contribution from overseas
By Jeenn Lee Hsieh
For www.ieltschn.com
 
【雅思中国网】回答网友问题:
 
X。我准备考雅思也考托福。写作单项最头痛。请问雅思哥怎样应付 【赞成或反对】的题型。真题是【建筑Mall】。培训班的写作教师指导我们说,写论说文一定要具【说服力】。但是,要怎么写呢?有没有【模板】?
 
Y。写雅思大作文,我知道要做到有【说服力】。说实话,我连怎样【开头】都束手无策,更不用谈【结尾】了。请举例【Introduction】的写法。顺便也请讲解【Conclusion】的写法。

 
 
[编辑回答 Question X]:
 
How to write an introduction and a conclusion for the essay type [For or Against]=[Support or Oppose]?  
To respond to this essay type, you had better take a stand [either for or against]=[either support or oppose].  That is, you may either agree with the proposed [Construction of a Large Shopping Mall] or you don't.  However, in either case, you must give evidence [=reasons, examples and details] to support your position [=argument or claim] to be persuasive.
 
[编辑回答 Question Y]:
 
A persuasive essay may end where it begins, completing a full circle of 360 degrees. The conclusion paragraph is the mirror image of the introduction.  In the introduction, we state a thesis while in the conclusion we restate the thesis. The movement in the first paragraph is from the general to the specific.  The opposite is true with the last paragraph, moving from the specific to the general.

 
【引用Essay Topic】:
 
It has been announced that a large shopping center may be built in your neighborhood.  Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. [IELTS-TOEFL]
 

 
》反对的写法举例 [AGAINST--OPPOSE]
 
1. Introduction

Construction of a large shopping center will do more harm than good to our neighborhood.  While some neighbors welcome the news in excitement over the forthcoming progress, others like me are against the plan for nostalgic reason.  The choice is up to the majority of residents.  We either stop the proposed mall from being built, or lose forever the only playground we have left.

 
2. Body A
 
 
3. Body B
 
 
4. Conclusion

In spite of all possible economic benefits a large shopping center can promise to deliver, there is no substitute for the old lifestyle cherished so fondly by families in the community. We have little to gain from an undesirable monster building that is likely to affect our environment.  We had better keep our neighborhood as we remember it and not as it may become.  If only for nostalgic reason, we hate to miss the merry sight and sound of children having a good time in the playground.
 
 
 
》赞成的写法举例 [FOR--SUPPORT]

 
1. Introduction
 
Our old neighborhood can get a face-lift if the proposed mall is to be constructed.  Probably for nostalgic reason, some older neighbors prefer to turn a deaf ear to the announcement, but many welcome the news as too good to be true.  We have been expecting that kind of progress to come near us, even at the expense of tranquility in lifestyle.  The choice is now up to the residents.  We either support building the mall, or lose our only chance to reactivate our community.
 
 
2. Body A
 
 
3. Body B

 
4. Conclusion
 
It may become clear that we cannot win a better economic future with a neighborhood of the past.  In fact, if the construction happens, we have much to gain and little to lose other than perhaps a sense of nostalgia.  That some residents are used to old lifestyles as if living in the countryside is understandable.  For these sentimental neighbors, the consolation is that they can continue living in the same neighborhood as remembered as well as enjoying the new and dynamic neighborhood it may become.

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