outline (Yiling Feng)

Topic: Conflicts in China from others countries
Outline:
--Purpose: To show that some conflicts in Chinese society now between Chinese traditional cultures and others cultures of different countries.
--Audience: All people; especially for the Chinese teenagers and their parents.
--Tone: Serious.
--Point of view: Third person.
--Thesis Statement: More and more teenagers like to study the Western cultures and actions, but their parents prefer to see their children keep more Chinese traditional characters.
--Structure
I. introduction
Describe Chinese peoples’ life in recent 30 years. Peoples’ lives are getting better, but not all things. There are some crashes between Chinese teenagers and their parents in thinking and actions.
i. After Chinese government reform and opening-up, there are a lot of changes in Chinese Mainland.
ii. Especially for the teenagers, they are changing, because they live in a new society; they study much different knowledge and accept a lots thinking from different cultures. Chinese teenagers have completely life with their parents.
II. Body
I put stress on writing what are differences between the Western and Chinese tradition, and Chinese teenagers and their parents. Not all exotic things and thinking are good for Chinese teenagers.
i. Describes a basic Chinese tradition in order to explain reasons why not all exotic things and thinking are not good for Chinese teenagers.
ii. Describe different cultures, and their thinking and things how to influence teenagers in Chinese Mainland.
iii. Write what are differences between the Western cultures and Chinese. Illustrate two examples in my own experiences.
1. What are changing in thinking and actions of my friends in China?
2. Some overseas students come back and bring some influences to China when they finish their studying.
iv. There are a lot of conflicts in Chinese society, especially for the Chinese teenagers and their parents. Teenagers prefer to accept a new living, like the Western teenagers; but their parents cannot accept this change. They prefer to see more Chinese traditions which their children keep. Give an example to prove my opinion. I see the truth from my real living, which prove that not all exotic things are good for Chinese teenagers.
III. Conclusion
Sum up research paper. World is changing, always. Obviously, peoples’ livings are always changing in anytime. Chinese teenagers should consider clearly which can accept, which can keep the Chinese traditions. We have a long history; we have a lot of good traditional things which we need to keep, and not all exotic things are good, some of them will cause a bad effect and experience.