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Study of the structure between Chinese eight-legged essay and British academic essay ---from the angle of test-cored civil service system Abstract This study focuses on the structure of both Chinese eight-legged essay and British essay, in an attempt to figure out the correlation between these two seemingly unrelated domains, in the context of fundamental social system. As regards to the origin of eight-legged essay dating back to hundreds of years, here stated are explorations of the eight-legged essay in Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and British essay in (1585-1870), emphasizing on the point of turbulent revolution of British civil service. This paper would insert a new insight into eight-legged essay by breaking off the shackles of being rigid and constraint of intellectual thoughts thus provides us a mode of logically-renowned essay for English writing. Key words: structure, eight-legged essay, British argumentative writing, test-cored civil service system 1. Introduction What is pleasant is that a number of authors (Cook 1989; McCarthy 1991; Hatch 1992) have made studies in proving that this kind of discourse analysis can exert intriguing insights in the field of writing. And it has been gradually acknowledged that fleeting thoughts and emotional freely flowing style alone, cannot contribute to a good article. Structure is to article what brick is to an edifice. Structure, which seems simple and easy to understand and grasp, is normally known as a rigid form of writing and considered deviated from the spirit of innovation. However, this case does not apply to the situation here. In the West, composition writing instruction often tends to approach a topic from a balanced perspective, by encouraging students to give appropriate information to support the topic from two or more points of view, to lend these views credibility and to come to a ?balanced’ conclusion or judgment. It is established that Western students are usually instructed that readers need to be convin