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GRE作文備考漫談及啟示：找準(zhǔn)方向 集中突破
一、準(zhǔn)備作文的前提是了解自己，找準(zhǔn)方向，集中突破。
每位G友專業(yè)背景、準(zhǔn)備時(shí)間與英語基礎(chǔ)各不一樣，在作文中面臨的問題當(dāng)然也不一樣：有些是語言和思想都很出色，有些是有思想但表達(dá)不出來，有些是英語好但思路打不開……一個(gè)作文小組只有幾個(gè)人或者十幾個(gè)人，就能夠看出這些差別來，用一種統(tǒng)一的方法來進(jìn)行準(zhǔn)備，未必對每個(gè)人都意味著高效率。在互助的時(shí)候也要注意對方最需要提高的是哪個(gè)方面，不必面面俱到。
二、避免低效率低水平的重復(fù)勞動(dòng)。
很多G友干勁十足，一天一篇issue或者argument，但如果基本問題不解決而沉溺于題海戰(zhàn)術(shù)中，往往是事倍功半。在網(wǎng)上下圍棋，經(jīng)常會(huì)看到有棋友下了幾千盤甚至上萬盤(如果一天3盤那就是將近10年)仍然是入門級的水平，足見得忽視基礎(chǔ)的樓房建不高。即使G友幫助你修改得很好，但你并不能透徹了解自己語法或者思維方式錯(cuò)誤的根源在哪里，那就只能寄希望于把每一篇改過的都背下來然后在考試時(shí)碰上。如果記得不牢或者根本沒碰上，問題就大了。我喜歡實(shí)踐-理論-實(shí)踐這種螺旋式的進(jìn)步方法，先找到問題，然后有針對性地進(jìn)行系統(tǒng)性的學(xué)習(xí)，打好基礎(chǔ);感覺有提高了再來實(shí)踐，再發(fā)現(xiàn)問題再提高。
三、重點(diǎn)準(zhǔn)備提綱，選擇性地練習(xí)實(shí)戰(zhàn)寫作。
這一點(diǎn)是承接第二點(diǎn)的。題海戰(zhàn)術(shù)有兩個(gè)問題：一是沒有解決根本問題，二是機(jī)會(huì)成本過高。所謂機(jī)會(huì)成本，就是你花的時(shí)間過多，而這些時(shí)間本來可以用來做更有意義的事情，比如說記單詞，學(xué)習(xí)語法或者看書開拓思路。設(shè)想你英文很差，但你寫作很努力，在考試時(shí)又碰上了寫過的題目，你的作文得了5分以上，但verbal只有300多分，人家一眼就能看出你的真實(shí)水平來。所以我覺得在打基礎(chǔ)的同時(shí)，要把重點(diǎn)放在提綱也就是思路的準(zhǔn)備上。Argument也許用不著每個(gè)都準(zhǔn)備提綱，但issue最好是能每一篇都仔細(xì)想一想大概怎么寫。試想一下，如果你在考試時(shí)面對題目，最可能使你心慌的是什么?那可能就是這道題沒見過，不知從哪下手;如果你想過了，即使你沒寫過，你也不會(huì)太緊張。我備考時(shí)只寫了兩篇issue和兩篇argument，時(shí)間主要花在熟悉題目上，argument看得少一些，issue看了一半左右，有點(diǎn)輕敵了，如果全看的話就會(huì)更沉著。考試時(shí)issue題中一道是具體題，關(guān)于小孩教育的問題;另一道是抽象題，關(guān)于藝術(shù)家與評論家哪個(gè)給人們帶來永恒價(jià)值的問題。第一道題比較好展開，但我沒有準(zhǔn)備，全憑臨場發(fā)揮;第二道題腦子里有輪廓，但是沒寫過。躊躇了足足三分鐘，我選擇了第二道題。從結(jié)果來看，我的選擇是完全正確的。雖然具體的題目好寫，但要在如此短時(shí)間內(nèi)組織得很漂亮，還是有難度的，如果中途稍有阻滯，情緒就會(huì)大受影響。作文互助小組是否也能把提綱準(zhǔn)備當(dāng)成首要問題?大家相互討論和啟發(fā)，把問題搞透。
GRE issue寫作優(yōu)秀實(shí)例：電視的全球化
題目：
The worldwide distribution of television programs and advertisements is seriously diminishing the differences among cultures.
電視節(jié)目和廣告的全球性擴(kuò)張正在嚴(yán)重地消除著不同文化之間的差異。
正文：
Today, the development of media industry is experiencing an incomparable spout time in history during which television programs and advertisements are spreading even to the remotest area. As a result, some people show concerns because they wonder whether this trend will finally cause diminishing of culture diversity. Although this concern does make sense in some aspects, we should examine the propelling power behind this phenomenon to find out the true effect of it.
Television programs as well as the advertisements reveal to people a utterly different world to where they were brought up and thus make it possible for the audience to stay home to enjoy the beautiful scenery of places of interest, grotesque customs of a different nation, well-preserved cultural heritage of another country which all help people to realize more about the difference instead of staying ignorant about the outside world. Some successful television program and advertisements aim at the global audience as a whole as their target group and this effort to reach the largest majority as a whole can be reflected in their creative design of programs and advertisements and their distributing endeavor. For example, “discovery” has arrest many audience’s eyeball because of its widely- covered topic such as astronomy,biology, history and anthropology, artistically shoot pictures and sensational commentary. Is this program diminish or increasing our awareness of the difference among cultures? Will the viewing of Roman’s glorious history, America’s persevere exploring of outer space, the miserable and fierce world war one and world war two arouse the consideration that all cultures is the same? Advertisement, at the same time, if distribute globally, usually requires that they cater for the taste of the local audience. We could see this if we look at Kenturkey’s advertising creative strategy and find out how much it has changed from one country to another.
Television itself is a neutral power, and it cannot contribute to the diminishing of culture diversity alone. Although human beings are susceptible to the influence of mass media such as television program and advertisements, we could not blame them as the sole the causes of this phenomenon.The broadcasting company should be responsible to choose programs that will truly embody the cultural differences as well as the common human similarity such as the longing for love, passion, humanity and the like. And the audience, when viewing programs and advertisements from the other country, should bear in mind that as human beings, we share certain similarity as well as diversity and this is the true impetus to push the world forward as well the power to make our world a more colorful place to live in.
Although to be too fussy about the negative influence of television is unnecessary, it does not mean that we pay no attention to it at all. We should be aware of the possibility of the domination of one culture, such as the western culture that we call as cultural imperialism. If we exaggerate it a little bit more, the prospect will be probably that the world be decorated in one color and expressed in one voice. I believe that even this imagination will sound uncomfortable to most people, whether they will be members of an assimilating or assimilated group.
GRE issue寫作優(yōu)秀實(shí)例：探索歷史
題目：
When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers.Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers.
當(dāng)我們通過研究歷史來考慮自身問題的時(shí)候，我們就會(huì)變成說故事的人。因?yàn)槲覀儾豢赡苤苯恿私膺^去，只有通過解釋一些史料來構(gòu)造歷史，所以探索歷史更多是一件創(chuàng)造性的事業(yè)而不是客觀的追尋。所有的歷史學(xué)家都是講故事的人。
正文：
I wholly agree that the work of studying and exploring history is more of a creative undertaking than an objective pursuit, although some historical affairs can objectively and factually reflect the original situations, which can be well proved. As a result, all historians can not escape the fact that they will inevitably regarded as storytellers more or less.
First and foremost, the materials constituting of the history books and records are somewhat creations contrived by the past historians and collected, compiled and possible distorted by contemporary historians. Some of the materials originated from the folklores or anecdotes, which were passed by generations to generations. True as they might be at first, they are gradually modified, embellished and even misinterpreted. This is why all history books always present us the dominating merits concerning some heroes and personalities and without any words about their shortcomings, one can not go very far to see that some heroic and historical stories are overstated and even wholly falsified; Other materials of history books completely come from the imagination and creation of present-day historians since some valuable and relevant historical materials already disappeared, so it is impossible for historians to reappear some factual history events to today's people, the only means they can employ is to induce and infer them according to those proved fragmentary facts before or after those events.
In addition, no all historians are equipped with abundant knowledge, which includes not only history knowledge but also artistic, linguistic and archaeological knowledge as well, and no all of them are equipped with rich experience about reorganize the history facts. As known to all, to research and explore history needs deep understanding concerning people's artworks, literatures, customs, mores, beliefs, languages in past time, and sometimes needs necessary archaeological knowledge as well to study the artifacts they unearthed, which can give some information to study and prove the authenticity of some history events. Experience is of the tantamount importance.When meeting with a new-discovering history materials and artifacts, seasoned and sophisticated historians can at once judge whether they are authentic or man-made falsehoods, and evaluate their internal value for studying history at first glance.Ironically, many historians lacking of foregoing knowledge and experience are also engaging in studying history, which are responsible for the fact that their work is regarded as only subjective and even storytelling one.
Moreover, historians are inevitably affected by the exterior conditions, their perspectives and opinions have to be subjected to the time and the authority. For one thing, historians only existed in a relatively short span in long historical river, limited by the time and the degree of civilization of their countries, unavoidably, some of their perspectives and ideas turned out to be fallacious and fatuous if inspected by today's criterion. For another, historians also were impacted by the political situations. When making historical records, seldom had historians the courage to disobey the will and power of the potentate, therefore some stories in historical records often involved in such contents as exalting the efficiency of the policies the politicians made, and portraying the savvy and sagacity of the authorities, while those objective fact, if violating the authorities’ interest, can rarely be seen, Based on the above two aspects,we can safely draw a conclusion that historians are storytellers to some extent.
In summary, admittedly some history stories can truly reflect the events to some extent. Nevertheless, historians, no matter in past and today, are in a sense defined as storytellers for the reliability of materials they choose and create, for the limit of knowledge, experience, time and outside political environment.
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