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SAT写作第一部分为限时25分钟的议论文体SAT作文的写作，虽然没有具体字数要求，但参照官方所给出的样卷，需填满一张半大小的A4纸，字数大约在500左右也可能更多。 这样的考试形式主要考验学生在压力下完成就某一日常话题给出观点并用各种具体论证手段加以支持分析的能力。在这种情况下产出的论文，考试方将其归为写作者的初稿。因此，一些不影响读者理解的语法错误通常被认作笔误，有别于雅思写作对语法准确性的严格要求，这一点和新托福对于初稿的强调十分相似。 所以小编建议：分部分把握总体，解剖部分练习。 就是说：今天我要练习开头段的写作，我今天就练开头段，就练它5-8个开头段；明天我练习结尾段，明天我就练习结尾段，我就只练5-8个结尾段；后天我练习第一个正文段，后天我就只练第一个正文段，就只练3-5个正文段；大后天（不废话了），练习第二个正文段，也是3-5个。 注意：请大家一定看到训练的次序，一定首先练开头，再练结尾。原因：这两个段落最容易提高，最容易出效果，最容易给人信心，最重要的是：在考试中开头段也好了，心首先不慌了；第二个正文段写不完，马上给它收住，转而去写结尾段，结尾段写好了，总体感觉就不会差，这样在做第二个section的时候，就不会因为essay写不好而受影响了。 这里，最中肯的建议是：essay在WR所占比重真的不大，但在平时训练时却经常给大家带来疑惑，因为它毕竟在第一个section，做不好对后面的发挥影响很大，在平时训练时就要练习克服essay带来的负面影响，写好开头和结尾也最主要是希望大家从心理调剂的角度上给自己注入“强心剂”，要给自己的暗示是：我essay实在写的太完美了！ 提醒大家在写作SAT作文的时候一定要注意： 1.尽量不要用长句 长句有两个问题： 一是中国学生水平不够，很难写出语法没有错误、意思表达准确的长句，语法错误、几个逗号连用、倒装从句混合是经常的。 二是看essay的人也是人，经常是那种大学生研究生，没人愿意看长句混在一起的文章，短剧更讨人喜欢，并且表达意思更加清晰，准确。 2.细节要注意 出现Mybrother，friend的时候要加上名字，出现university的时候要给上名字，给出事例的时候要给出时间地点人物。 没人愿意看“我的弟弟去了一个大学，然后再大学里交了很多朋友，后来去了公司里那些朋友成为了他的财富”，而“我的弟弟Dan去了Upenn读书，在学校里认识了Jeff、Dennis等好朋友，而他后来去Google公司工作的时候发现了他们成为了自己一生宝贵的财富”比上面那句好了很多。 实在要写流水账也要写出细节和感觉。 3.瞎编要编的像 这和第2点有很多的联系，如果能够抓住细节，无论怎么瞎编都会很像那么回事的。 4.自己的事例难写，最好不要写 5.积累，积累，再积累 例子和描述用的句子都是需要积累的，无论大家的写作基础如何，都需要在SAT写作考试备考中进行一定量的积累。 优秀范文欣赏： Prompt Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and assignment below. To change is to risk something, making us feel insecure. Not to change is a bigger risk, though we seldom feel that way. There is no choice but to change. People, however, cannot be motivated to change from the outside. All of our motivation comes from within. Adapted from Ward Sybouts,Planning in School Administration:A Handbook Assignment What motivates people to change? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from you reading,studies, experience, or observations. Sample Essay - 6分范文 What motivates people to change is a relentless and innate desire for self-improvement. Rarely ever has history seen a man or society kick back, relax, and say “Well that about does it. Not much else to do here!” Within every person is the potential to achieve greatness in some form; be it athletically, mentally, spiritually. This inherent potential demands that people continue to explore and change both their environments and themselves throughout their life’s course. Never should a man be idle for too long. After acknowledging the changes a man has already made to his environment, the pursuit of self-improvement will once again stir within his soul and call him to action. This internal desire, this pursuit of challenge and perfection, does not prohibit man from being happy with his status and achievements. On the contrary, the device serves more to allow the man to constantly strive for greater change, newer innovation. What motivates people to change is the ongoing need to redefine people’s lives and ident ities –to elevate them to higher levels of eminence and sucess. A good example of this can be seen in clinical psychology. When patients seek therapy for difficulties that have encumbered their daily functioning, they most often arrive for treatment voluntarily and willingly- they consciously accept the necessity of therapy and so participate without any duress. During the course of clinical therapy, the patient’s concerns, anxieties, ideas, emotions, and fears are brought to light. However, the clinician does not try to alter the beliefs, feeling, and sentiments of his client; rather, he simply illuminates them in order to provide the patient with an accurate view of himself. The process, of raising concerns and ideas to the surface of conscious awareness, is known as clarification. Modern psychology is a far throw from the psychoanalysis of Freud’s time, in which psychologists attempted to “interpret” pre-and unconscious feelings that had been repressed by the patient. Because clinicians only clarify, and not dissect, alter, or interpret a client’s inner desires and emo tions, the client himself is responsible for instituting change. If he is to change, he must dictate the course of therapy, and make the conscious choice to improve himself. This widely used approach is called “client centered therapy.” If the client’s ennui or ill feelings are due to situational factors or internal designs (as oppose to biological changes that would qualify for a diagnosis of psychopathology (mental disorder)), he must change them on his own accord to precipitate change within himself. The therapist will not “cure” him in any way. He alone must answer the call within himself to refine and redefine his identity and place in society. This need, of self-improvement, also initially brought him to the therapist. He was able to recognize the disorder of his environment and acknowledge his own negative feelings. This in turn brought him to therapy, where he was guided through a process of introspection that ultimately enabled him to improve himself, assuage his anxieties, and rightfully continue on his lifelong pursuit of even greater achievements. Score Explanation 6分原因与点评 This outstanding essay effectively and insightfully develops the point of view that “What motivates people to change is the ongoing need to redefine people’s lives and identities – to elevate them to higher levels of eminence and sucess.” The writer demonstrates outstanding critical thinking by clearly focusing on “client centered therapy” to support this position. The writer begins by explaining that “When patients seek therapy for difficulties that have encumbered their daily functioning, they most often arrive for treatment voluntarily and willingly.” The writer then describes the process of therapy and shows how, if the client “is to change, he must dictate the course of therapy, and make the conscious choice to improve himself.” The writer concludes with the idea that therapy is a tool for someone who wishes to change, and while the therapist will not “cure” a client, the introspection encouraged by the therapist can “refine and redefine” the client’s “identity and place in society.” The essay is well or ganized, demonstrating clear coherence and smooth progression of ideas. Throughout the essay, the writer exhibits the skillful use of language by using a varied, accurate, and apt vocabulary (“During the course of clinical therapy, the patient’s concerns, anxieties, ideas, emotions, and fears are brought to light. However, the clinician does not try to alter the beliefs, feelings, and sentiments of his client; rather, he simply illuminates them in order to provide the patient with an accurate view of himself. This process, of raising concerns and ideas to the surface of conscious awareness, is known as clarification”). This response demonstrates clear and consistent mastery and receives a score of 6. |
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