【攒RP】AW4分经验 拓宽思路的一些方法
虽然4分也不是很高，不过觉得自己准备的方式也许有些不同所以想在这里分享一下。同时，也希望可以给自己杯具的申请攒攒RP吧~
我考的是老G，对于新G不算了解，但觉得作文方面大致应该不会有太大差异的样子。
（1）Argument
也许A对于很多人没有什么准备的意义呢~毕竟背背题库就可以……
这里要说的是
如果你GT同时准备的话，那以下说的这个方法也许还不错？
我当时喜欢听一个叫做LSAT Logic in Everyday Life的PODCAST(Itunes上可以下载)
这个podcast就是有关LSAT的逻辑分析 一些生活中的细节 或者政治上的事情
LSAT GRE都是ETS的思维套路，所以听了不少后发现其实这里面讲到的很多思路
是可以用在Argument上面的，多听一些确实可以拓宽思路。
而且个人觉得 这里面用的语言很好，适当借鉴一下挺有帮助。
我当时因为觉得一遍听懂里面的逻辑关系并不简单，同时也为了练习听力的关系
选择了几篇进行听写。更为重要的是听写完后再分析这整篇的结构和用词。
以下拿一篇进行举例：
http://www.tudou.com/v/wGur1_Ze7_k/&rpid=61911558&resourceId=61911558_04_05_99/v.swf
在线听：http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/wGur1_Ze7_k/
这篇其实作为一篇A的作文也已经很完整了
第一段列举了这3个evidence
第二段过渡而提出了assumption的概念
接下去每一段对于evidence进行分析
第一段的结构可以用来学习： it could be case...might even be列举几个反驳的理由
最后提出a time line may be more helpful的概念，不过妙在这个让步是为了突出后面那个still difficult。用颜色标出了这些词 这个结构用到一篇A里面还是很精彩的，而且也避免了那些常见的模板感
下面一段是主要提出sample小的概念，这个在G的A里面常常用到，而我觉得这里的语言很给力，给出了数量，再用extremely加强。而且又更近一步，即使在小的sample里面依旧有问题，这样的分析就很到位了。
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最后的一段，则是会针对之前的事情继续提问，这个引发的继续思考也很有趣。
我做的部分听写如下（前面的事例没听写，从对例子分析开始，可能有部分单词不对或者省略 漏掉些什么不是重点的）
（有颜色的部分就是一些提到的结构和可以在A里使用的句子）
The first piece of evidence internationalsample happiness is correlated with the amount of money that one spends oncharity. The second piece of evidence--in a small study a handful of workersgiven bonuses, the ones who spending more of the money on themselves were lesshappy than those who spend on others. And the amount spend on others was more indictively(?) happiness than the size of the bonus. The third piece of evidence, theresearches conducted in an experiment where students were given 5 dollars or 20dollars to spent with instructions for how to spend. The one who spend onothers were happier than the one spend on themselves, no matter how much moneythey were given.
Three pieces of evidence are all with similaroutcomes. People who give away money are happier than others. T seems prettyoptimistic about the conclusions the researches drew, suggesting people might startgiving away more money as they hear these results. He does question someelements of the conclusion, asking if people giving away money just for thesake of making themselves happy would achieve the same amount of happinessthose who simply want to help others. Savvy lsat students might have some otherquestions. Let’s remind ourselves that the researchers are very intend on the causal conclusion that is to say the act of giving away money is the cause of happiness.Let’s look at the assumption involved with in the each of the piece of evidenceto find ways to weaken this conclusion.
Let’s start with the correlation innationally sample between happiness and the amount of money spent on charity. Like any causal conclusion drawn from correlation, the researchers are assuming that they can rule outreverse causality that it’s not the fact that these people are alreadyhappy that’s causing them to donate others. Itcould be case that people who concluded that people who are generally contentedin their lives give away more money, in which case it will be the happinesscausing the charity ability, and not vise versa.It could even be slightly more nefarious there’s the possibility that people who giveaway money have more money to begin with. And themight even be that happiness is derived from the money. In other words, there are many ways in which that this causalrelationship might fail. It would be helpfulto have a study that fix for the income level, buteven then it will not be enough to prove the causal relationships sincethere would still be no easy determinant ofthe charity ability causing happiness or vise versa.A time line may be more helpful demonstrating that people’s happiness isincreasing over time as they begin to give away money although it’s be stilldifficult to control other factors causing that happiness.
The next piece of evidence was the workerswho are happier the more they’re bonus money they give away. That study wascontrolled for size of the bonus so we can weaken it by saying that people who giveaway more might have more to give away and every bonus size that people giveaway more are happier. However, with 16 subjects,this sample is extremely small. An issue we always have to be aware ofwith samples. Many researchers were claiming that this sample is statistically insignificant, too small to get the real trend.
Even if we look atthe small sample size, that sample alsoshares the methodology problem that the third piece of evidence has. Thesecond piece of evidence looked at how people spent their bonus, and the thirdevidence was the experiment where people were given 5 or 20 dollars to spend.In both cases, subjects were spending extra money. In other words, money that was not income earned from their labor.In neither case was the choice of how to spend money a zero sum game as in reallife. In real life, money spent on others is money not spent on one self. Butin the experiment it was extra money, more like playing money. None is to say that spending money on others doesnot increase one’s happiness, but to makethe claim that spending money on others promotes one’s happiness more thanspending on oneself and that’s the direct quote from the researchers we would need some further evidences. Both of the vector or direction of causality andthe relationship to how people spent their own money earned from their ownlabor.
T’s question is also an interesting one.Does spending for the sake of becoming happy make you as happy as spending justto be charitable? Maybe some definitive evidence flaws could be jumped upbefore you receive our tax rebates from our government in a few months. A little guide of how to spend it might leadto a lot of happiness
下面的链接是我自己以前做的一些听写 （八篇附MP3）
http://115.com/file/c2zogtq4#
可以用作参考（不过听写错很多是很有可能的……）
大多数也是像上文一样 有标出了不一样的颜色 可以参考的语言和结构。
题外话是 主持PODCAST的这位声音非常好听 没事听听也觉得很好
当然这只是复习的方法之一
更重要的是不断看题库，因为资料很多就不多说了。
在听过这些podcast之后，会有些和模板不一样的想法吧！
（2）Issue
当时复习I的时候把I分类后
每周看一个类别。
看一个类别的计划包括
1 看关于这个类别高频的机经题目
2 分析这个类别的一篇范文
3 这周阅读有关这个内容的书籍或者资料
4 画一个brain strom的图 关于这个话题
5 自己写这个类别中一篇
集中阅读相关的资料可以了解很多相关文化
比如我很头疼的政治 法律 一些关于value的话题 会觉得抽象没有话写
但是看了一部分奥巴马的Audacity of Hope...觉得里面有不少句子都很有意义
以下列举一些：
Whether politics actually encourages the trait or simply attracts those who possess it is unclear.
Government couldn’t solve their problems
Make sure every child had a decent shot at life and meet challenges we meet as a nation.
And government has an important role in opening up opportunity to all.
And because politics seems to speak so little to what they are going through—because they understand that politics is a business and not a mission, and what passes for debate is little more than spectacle—they turned inward, away from the noise and rage and endless chatter.
而关于一些哲学 文化 参考了《瓦尔登湖》
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them.
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.（关于变化）
To stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment;（历史、现在 未来的话题）
记得看到这句话的时候，想起了Issue中的一道题
Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer’s character…
All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque.
于是觉得 我大概是把复习G作文作为一种蛮有趣的 学习各种方面知识的机会的
觉得自己作为工科生，对于很多东西了解的实在太少……于是复习G作文也称了一个了解事物的机会。没有刻意去背文章，只是阅读一些资料，作些笔记，作为一种积累。
（但我觉得自己在语言方面功夫花太少，以至于考前一周还被说一篇文章里满是语法错……）
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AW的后续
考完AW之后，有时看美剧 看电影的时候，竟然会有时，对于里面涉及的哲学观念觉得熟悉，或者觉得比如关于艺术的话题似曾相识，然后想大概是因为AW的思想观念？于是猜想，AW也许对于美国人都很好写，是因为他们接触的书籍，电影，媒体，都是这样的思维。而我们的差距或许也在此。自己以上的方法是否适用于每个人并不清楚，不过觉得自己是在想尽量多听podcast,多看书，不是针对题目去写，而是针对一个话题先去了解，有了一定的想法一定的积累之后，那么写文也就相当容易了。
暂时就写这些了，有空的话会再补充 感觉非常好啊！
还有你那个115网盘听写资料下完后好像解压出现了问题。
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