numbers，figures，statistics，data如何赏析数据的修辞效果？

 

　　How the author uses statistics:(如何分析议论文的数据手法)

　　What the author does?(写了什么)

　　Why he or she does it?(什么目的)

　　What effect this is likely to have on readers?(什么效果)

 

　　数据通常是数字的集合、分析、阐述和呈现，它们在议论文中数据看起来不起眼但作为重要的evidence它们起着非常重要的增强论点的作用下面我们一起来看看如何将这3W原则运用到数据分析中去。

 

　　精读细析：

　　原文：

　　Back in 2003, American Journalism Review produced a census of foreign correspondents then employed by newspapers based in the United States, and found 307 full-time people. When AJR repeated the exercise in the summer of 2011, the count had dropped to 234.

　　选自Foreign News at a Crisis Point(OG183)

 

　　数据分析：

　　He begins his essay with the statistic saying that the level of professional foreign correspondents dropped from 307 full-time people to 234. (What the author does?)This conveys that the number of people providing legitimate and credible information to news services in the U.S. is going down, thus alluding to the overall decrease in foreign Media.(Why he or she does it?)Goodman uses this to build his argument by evoking his audience to think that they may not be getting all the true media and facts presented.(What effect this is likely to have on readers?)

 

　　常用句型：

　　What the author does?(写了什么)

　　The author uses several statistics …

　　The author throws out numbers…

　　The author begins by clearly laying out that raw statistics from …

　　The author’s presentation of a numerical statistic…

　　The author cites the number of…

　　The author opens by listing a number of…

　　By introducing figures to…

　　The author cites figures comparing…and…

　　By comparing the numbers of…and…

　　A further statistic…

　　A number of statistics are mentioned to…

　　The author turns to recent scientific data…

　　Another allusion to economic data…

　　Why author use number, figure, statistic, data?(什么目的)

　　To support his/her concern…

　　He/she sets the foundation for his/her argument…

　　These figures give concrete support to the abstract concept of…

　　…to tell a strong fact that…

　　…to highlight/ emphasizes/illuminate/debunk…

　　…to provide more validity to her argument…

　　…to support the claim that…

　　What effect this is likely to have on readers?(什么效果)

　　…thus effectively convincing his/her readers that there is a need for…

　　Also many people will start to believe that this author is a credible source.

　　…adds significant logical weight to his argument…

 

　　词汇精选

　　Evoke

　　英文释义：to make someone remember something or feel an emotion.

　　例句：Michelle Obama plants an image in the minds of her audience--evoking an emotion of grave concern.

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