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Revision of #8, by 凝羽欲翔
University is a place that bridges the school and the society together [If I were you, I might use ''glues … together.'']. As we all know, during the time from preliminary school to senior high school, to lay a strong foundation [I do not understand], we learn [have learned] a lot of basic and classical knowledge, while when we step into society; [,] we shall soon [''immediately'' might be more powerful, or replace ''while when'' by ''while once'' and omit this ''soon''] find out that it’s [it is]far from enough. Jobs are more complicated and flexible compared to the examples from books, yet sometimes, the knowledge from book is out of date. So, a voice catches the attention of society, to improve the teaching quality, all faculty should spend time on working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach [can be replaced, from my opinion, by ''in fields related to the courses they teach of course'' to avoid copying too much from the original statement.].
The author gave us a clear statement of his/her point in the beginning paragraph.
Indeed, working outside will bring much benefit [may benefits] to the faculty. On one hand, it is[the tenses conflict between these two sentences, you may choose the combination ''brings …, it is...'' or ''will bring …, will be …'']a great opportunity for the faculty to breathe new life into the field they study in. Knowledge is endless and gets renewing quickly,especially in such a world that switch [hard to understand, you mean ''changing''?] so fast nowadays. Once we [were] left behind, we will [would] find [that] it [is] a little hard to catch up again. For the faculty, who are the fountain [fountains] of the knowledge to students, it’s [it is] important to get informed the newest [latest] knowledge in the specific field. The failure of the old-style private school in feudal society [the western people do not know too much about this]which only required the students of reciting and writing old poems and books in school still dwell in memory. However, the newly built University of Waterloo[,] which is now well-known for its focus-on-practice education to undergraduates, sparks our eyes.
The author showed that the outside working can keep faculty's teaching being updated. Three sentences of reasoning and one example wereprovided here, which makes this conclusion sounds convincing.
On the other hand, it does [does be] good to students’ development, no matter to those that [who] want to devote their lives to doing research [academic career], or to those who will take a job [jobs] [in industry]. It’s [It is] common that in universities, teachers will participate in some research [researchs] or projects with social researchers and students are very willing to join in [Do you mean ''co-operating with other social researchers in which students are very willing to join''?]. Many of them reflect [claim] that it’s a good chance [they are good chances]for them to step closer to society. They know more about the trends,get deeper understanding of the basic knowledge from books, meanwhile, it helps them master practical skills needed in society [too''chinglish'', you can say ''those experiences enable them to gain such practical skills that are needed to live in the the contemporary era''], making [make] them integrate to society more easily [or change the whole phrase into ''and therefore to be easily integrated into the society']. Furthermore, for those who do researches, it widens their horizon [horizons] and stimulates [their] creativity [creativities].
Four sentences of reasoning were presented in this paragraph to support the opinion of the helpfulness to students' development due to teachers' outside works, which is overall clear but a little bit verbose. Miss some more direct facts and a short summary.
Overall,these two paragraphs of main body were organized in a fairly logical way. But after carefully reading, one may find that the title sentence,''Indeed, …'', can not cover the both branches of ''on one hand, …''and ''on the other hand''. What's more, neither one has a summary sentence.
However, every coin has two sides. Though doing some relevant work outside has positive effect [effects] on both teachers and students, it’s [it is]not always the case. Take my unhappy experience of learning microeconomic for example. The teacher is really a well-known expert,which should receive warm welcome among students. But [, but] not for this time. [Most of what] What he taught us most on the class is [are] the trend [trends] and the essays that care mainly about the existing problems in nowadays economic, and showed little about the basic theory [theories]. Furthermore he also asked us to analysis [analyze] the present economic situation with principles of economy. Without a clear describe [description]of the framework and the specific knowledge, we got confused with what we learned, even now, our understanding towards microeconomics is still vaguely [vague].
The author should explicitly give his/her point right after the sentence''it is not always the case''. The example helps a lot.
[What between improving] Improving teaching quality and working outside the academic world is not a must-be relationship, [but …] [you may want to finish the point here]. What’s more [I cannot find the logical meaning of this phrase here], though basic knowledge may be old and out of date [they have the same meaning, so delete one of them], it’s [it is] still the foundations of the knowledge hierarchy, which should draw people’s attention [to which people should draw attention] during the teaching period. Once making [make] sure that students can have a good knowledge of basic curriculums [curricula], teachers can set aside some time to work outside to introduce new skills and new horizon [horizons] to school and students.
The author briefly summarized the main ideas in the essay in the final paragraph, which makes it clear.
Comments: The author gets the basic ideas about how to write an issue, although a more logical organization is needed, besides paying attention on the grammar. Do not use abbreviations. Maybe, the only exception is ''What's more''. Not only the essay as a whole, but every single paragraph also needs a logical organization.
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Second revision of #8, by 凝羽欲翔
University is a place that glues the school and the society together. As we all know, during the time from preliminary school to University, to lay a strong foundation [我想表达的是,为了打下扎实的基础], we have learned a lot of basic and classical knowledge, while when we step into society, we shall immediately find out [find] that it is far from enough. Jobs are more complicated and flexible compared to the examples from books, yet sometimes, the knowledge from book is out of date. So, a voice catches the attention of society, to improve the teaching quality, all faculty should spend time on working outside the academic world in fields related to the courses they teach.
Indeed, working outside brings many benefits to the faculty [and the student] {Because the next paragraph is talking about the student.}. On one hand, it is a great opportunity for the faculty to breathe new life into the field they study in. Knowledge is endless and gets renewing quickly,especially in such a world that switch [is switching] {Are you sure that switching has the same function as changing here? For me, it looks more like exchanging rather than changing. I think you may want to use varying if you do not want to use changing.} [是change的意思] so fast nowadays. Once we were left behind, we would find it (还是比较习惯简写,呵呵~)a little [bit] {From my experience, it is almost always “a little bit” instead of just “a little”. I don’t know why, but people just use it like that.} hard to catch up again. For the faculty, who are the fountains of the knowledge to students, it is important to get informed the latest knowledge in the specific field [their … fields]. The failure of the old-style private school in feudal society, which only required the students of reciting and writing old poems and books in school still dwell in memory. However {Just by feeling, “In comparison” looks more suitable here. What do you think?}, the newly built University of Waterloo, which is now well-known for its focus-on-practice education to undergraduates, sparks our eyes. (小V:我这里想表达的是,私塾学校的衰落(failure表衰落),和注重实践的学校的兴起这两类哦)
I think this is the only paragraph that needs some revision on logic and structure. The main problem is in the most part of the second half,you were talking about how important the practice experience are to the students without further connection to the teachers who are supposed to be the focus. If you can mention how the teaches of University of Waterloo anticipate outside working in the second example, it will help a lot. After all, you point is “teachers breath new lives into their fields”, which is hard to feel from the examples.
On the other hand, it does [do good to:对。。有好处] good to students’ development no matter to those that [一般those后面比较常跟that] {What I have seen is that “who” is preferred. Anyway, they are grammatically the same, so it is not a big deal} want to devote their lives to academic career, or to those [omit] who will take jobs in industry. It is common that in universities, teachers will participate in some researches or projects [, ]co-operating with other social researchers [, ] in which students are very willing to join. Many of them claim that they are good chance [chances] for them to step closer to society. They know more about the trends, get deeper understanding of the basic knowledge from books, meanwhile, those experiences enable them to gain such practical skills that are needed to live in the contemporary era, making [我想当伴随用哦] them integrate to [be integrated into] society more easily. Furthermore, for those who do researches, it widens their horizons and stimulates their creativities.
However, every coin has two sides. Though doing some relevant work outside has positive effects on both teachers and students, it is not always the case. Imposing too much work experience on students but ignoring the basic norms often does the exact opposite. Take my unhappy experience of learning microeconomic for example. The teacher is really a well-known expert, which should receive warm welcome among students, but not for this time(回小V:表示“而这次并不是这样的”). Most of what he taught us on the class are [I thought this should be “are”are since the following is a plural, but the WORD spelling check says it should be “is”. So, I don’t know ….] the trends and the essays that care mainly about the existing problems in nowadays economic, and showed little about the basic theories. Furthermore he also asked us to analyze the present economic situation with principles of economy. Without a clear description of the framework and the specific knowledge, we got confused with what we learned, even now, our understanding towards microeconomics is still vague.
[You want a transition phrase here, such as “To sum up”, “Consequently” or “Here we reach the conclusion that”] What between improving teaching quality and working outside the academic world is not a must-be relationship, but promoted with each other to some extent. Though basic knowledge may be out of date, it is still the foundations of the knowledge hierarchy, to which people should draw attention during the teaching period. Once making [creative大牛,为什么你说这里要改为make呢?] {Just by the intuition last time. Now I tend to agree with you.} sure that students can have a good knowledge of basic curricula, teachers can set aside some time to work outside to introduce new skills and new horizons to school and students.
After some revision, this essay looks more convincing. The only flaw might be the second paragraph. It has a good beginning, but the rest does not follow very well. The reviewer suggest the author to rewrite the second paragraph, at least the example part, since tiny revisions are hopeless here to make a big difference.
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Second revision of #17, by 小V
According to the statement, the speaker claims that all faculty should spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach, for the purpose of improving the quality of instruction at the college and university level. Although it has some merit from a normative standpoint, in my view, it has certain negative influences and is not suitable for all professions.
To begin with, the speaker’s assertion that some applied academic fields can enhance the quality of instruction to some extent, by required [requiring] teachers engaging ["to engage", or "teachers' engaging"] in working outside the academic world, for two respects. On the one hand, the engagement of working outside the academic world can spur faculty to developing and innovating in their professions [good!]. Consider, for example, the field of sewage treatment technology. P [, p]rofessors involving [involved] in daily operation of local sewage treatment plant can more easily discover problems and focus on researching more effective and economic treatment processor [processes] {For me, "processor" likes "CPU". Or maybe you just mean that, then "processors" would be better}. On the other hand, teachers can design [the] contents of [their] courses combined [combining] with actual needs of society, helping students better prepared for future careers in their professional fields, such as computer science, business and management, biological engineering and the like.
However, I cannot totally agree with the speaker’s assertion because it seems to ignore several passive influences of spending time working outside the academic world. First, apparently, outside tasks are so time and energy consuming that teachers are surely distracted from normal teaching and researching works and lead [leads] to the deterioration [good] of the instruction’s quality instead. A telling example of this involves that professors majored in computer science in my university. They would like to pay more attention on projects of companies [I would like to use "supported by commercial companies"] with rich rewards rather than students in classes, which directly causing the lesser competition [weaker competitiveness] of those [their] students compared with [that of] others. Secondly, spending too much time working outside the professional academic fields may obstruct the perspective of these realms, as the frontmost [foremost] theories and technologies are not in the realm of producing but in the realm of researching. Only those mature researching results can be applied in manufacturing industries.
Finally, and perhaps the most important [significantly] {"finally" is an adj., so is here}, the speaker unfairly suggests that all professions are suitable for participating outside tasks. Nonetheless it is unnecessarily to compel certain professors, for instance, majored in the realms of fundamental or purely theoretical subjects, to engage in outside works. For some fundamental subjects,such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on, with the purpose of gaining results of academic researching rather than application and preparing students [training students'] better logical capabilities [? logical sense], cannot effectively benefit from outside engagements on the enhancements of no matter professors themselves or the instructional qualities. {This sentence has some grammatical problem. "For ..., such as ..., cannot ...." See, no subject noun phrase here. You can try to organize the last part like "the teachers' outside engagement can benefit neither ... nor ...."} For some purely theoretical subjects,such as literature, astronomy, physiology, history and linguistics, it is hardly ["hardly" is an adv. rather than adj., you can try "hard"] to find suitable outside areas for their practices because of irrelevant to actual living [lives] and production [productions]. Therefore, it is too arbitrary for the speaker to claim that all teachers should engage in such extra outside works [that are] relevant to their professions.
In sum, I concede that the practices in relevant professions have advantages for certain kinds of academic areas. However, in a sense the speaker overrates the importance of such practices and overlooks several negative effects and general applicability [feasibilities]. And from what have been discussed above [good!], we may safely reach the conclusion that the speaker should encourage faculty [faculties] to participate in outside professional tasks in the terms of actual needs [circumstances].
Overall, the author's proficiency of English is fairly remarkable. The reviewer learned a lot of useful vocabularies and phrases from this essay. There is no big problems, except some minor grammatical mistakes. The author organized the essay as a whole and its every single paragraph in very logical ways, such that the points are pretty convincing. Good job, little V!
P.S. It seems that my revision is a little bit late since you already submit your revised version. Hehe ! ! I am a lazy man.
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