距離專八的日紙?jiān)絹碓浇玻瑥慕裉扉_始，模擬啥的都不發(fā)了，就開始專心聽寫真題吧。真題才是王道啊！其實(shí)真題比模擬簡單很多的哦~
大家一起加油！專八~，任重而道遠(yuǎn)！

Today's lecture aims to talk about something about research paper.
You explain why one opinion is sound and another is not; why one fact is relevant and another is not; why one writer is correct and another is mistaken. What's more, your purpose may vary with your topic. You may try to explain a situation, to recommend a course of action, to reveal the solution to a problem, or to present and defend a particular interpretation of a historical event or a work of art. But whether the topic is space travel or trends in contemporary American literature, an argumentative research paper deals actively - I say it again, actively - with the statements it cite. It makes these statements work together in an argument that you create, that is, an argument leading to a conclusion of your own. In the next part of the lecture, I'd like to talk about one of the basic steps in writing I mentioned earlier in the lecture, that is how to choose a topic.