在写作中我们会遇到一些争论点的作文,The Even if / although 让步技巧在GMAT和GRE中要怎么写呢?其实整个核心理论就是:让步技巧在argument 的作文里不仅仅可以呈现一个逻辑不合理处和即使这不合理处被解决,而且可以找出另外在前问题下的另外一处深入的逻辑不合理,下面我们就从具体实例中来分析一下。
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It allows you to present one problem at a time, and then stipulate that even if that problem were handled, there would still be another problem underneath. It cuts away one bruise from the apple at a time in order to leave no excuses or explanations for the rotten core underneath.
如何操作这样的技巧:
例题:The Mayor of Janesville has proposed a plan to help stimulate sales for small businesses in the town’s downtown shopping district. He proposes that Janesville provide tax breaks to businesses who want to move their operations to Janesville. The tax breaks, the Mayor reasons, will motivate businesses to move to Janesville, which will help to grow the downtown shopping district, attracting customers and their spending dollars.
首先:列出例子短文里逻辑不合理的几处
•Will tax breaks make businesses want to move?
•Will businesses necessarily offer shopping?
•Will businesses grow the downtown shopping district?
•Does the mayor want to help the current small businesses? Or any?
•Will customers be attracted to the businesses that come?
•Will more customers help the current small businesses?
•Will customers coming to new businesses shop at small businesses?
那么问题出来了 这里有很多逻辑不合理处而且很凌乱 也并没有优先重点的问题。基于这样的情况出现的每个离题和短文里
通过 even if / although 的技巧里更好的编织这些凌乱点并呈现 even if 的 整体结构 如下
•We don’t know if tax breaks motivate businesses to uproot.
让步一 深入第一处不合理点•Even if they do, we don’t know if these tax breaks will be large enough to be motivating.
让步二 深入前面逻辑不合理处•Even if they are large enough to be attractive, we don’t know if they outweigh the costs or disadvantages of moving to Janesville.
让步三 深入前面逻辑不合理处•Even if they are enough to drive businesses to Janesville, we don’t know if these businesses offer shopping.
让步四 深入前面逻辑不合理处•Even if they do offer shopping, we don’t know if they will open downtown.
•Even if they do open downtown, we don’t know if they will attract customers.
•Even if they attract customers, we don’t know if those customers have money to spend.
•Even if the customers do have money to spend, we don’t know if the increased competition will help small businesses or hurt them.
以这样的even if 结构 我们可以呈现出以上这些 当然考试的时候或实际练习的时候不需要深入那么多点 毕竟时间和字数段落有限