Explaining methods: giving examples, quoting data, comparing, listing numbers, classifying, analogizing, imitating appearances, defining, explaining, listing charts and making assumptions. We should choose the best method according to the characteristics of the explanatory object and the purpose of writing. The language requirements of explanatory writing are scientific, rigorous, accurate, true, thorough, concise and clear; Literary discourse also requires vividness and vividness.

Proper use of interpretation methods can improve the scientificity and accuracy of interpretation language, make the object of interpretation more concrete and vivid, make readers understand and understand the author's meaning more clearly, enhance persuasion, and sometimes enhance readers' reading interest and highlight the theme.

Extended data:

Three elements of expository writing:

1, rigor of content:

Truthfully reflect objective things, grasp the characteristics, essence and laws of things, and give readers a correct understanding.

2, explain the organization:

Writing in chronological order is similar to narrative; According to spatial order's writing, pay attention to the observation point, pay attention to the position and direction of things, such as inside and outside, size, up and down, front and back, left and right, southeast and northwest; When writing in logical order, we should pay attention to finding out the internal relations of each part, from the surface to the inside, from the shallow to the deep, from the phenomenon to the essence.

3. Accuracy of language:

Time, space, quantity, scope, degree, characteristics, nature, procedures, etc. All require accuracy. The language is concise, the explanation is rigorous and the science is rigorous.

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