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No wonder newspapers and magazines are the windows for the aliens? (If you're trying to use 'alien' to mean a 'foreigner', then know that this use is mostly only used by immigration authorities to mean a 'foreign-born citizen'. The word itself comes with a sense of being strange, unfamiliar, and incompatible, and probably isn't the best word you'd want to describe a 'foreigner' who's potentially interested to know another country.) to know a country. By browsing today's newspapers we can easily get an idea about the latest acchievements and current status in the main aspect of this nation, like in economy, politics, science...etc. Due to the swift transaction in information through mass media like newspapers, which are updated everyday (Not all mass media, and certainly not all newspapers are updated everyday, or only everyday.).(And, this is not a complete sentence.) it (This makes me suspect that you meant to use a comma after that '...everyday'. But still, even with that comma, this whole mess doesn't have a proper subject - WHAT is this 'it', anyway? There are four nouns in the 'due to' part, and which one is your 'it'? Don't assume that your readers will know where all your pronouns are pointing at just because you know where all your pronouns are pointing at.) definitely is a shortcut for a foreign people (I trust you to discover the error here yourself.) to get to know a country. What's more, the magazines, which are commonly regarded as a dynamic source to access the newest critics and fresh fashion infromation in every field, also serves as a major approach to keep up with the present trends. Just like the eating fast food, we can feed our "thrist" (For what?) quickly by reading a number of pages of a newspaper or a magazine, and feel content with the brief views in most areas in the new country. (This introduction is a tad long, if it's meant to be an introduction at all. It reads more like a developed argument for the topic, in TOEFL's terms of course. This opening is nice for a general-purpose essay or a newspaper column, but that's because the question is just a statement without any specific requirement on what you're expected to discuss. If the question is something like 'Do you agree with the following statement? xxx...' - which is very often what TOEFL essay questions are like in reality, btw - you then can't afford to spend this amount of energy on showing off your language without clearly stating your stand. It seems like you come from writing GRE essays so here's just a reminder to keep in mind: read your essay question carefully, follow its instructions and discuss what it wants you to discuss. TOEFL essay questions are generally more specific, and expected essays are more fixed in structure than GRE essays.)
However, is it the best way of learning about a foreign country ? it varies depending on individuals because it is a complicated and varity? country (Do the two 'it's here refer to the same thing? If not, you're in big trouble of getting your ideas across.). Which section we need to know about decides what material and information we should source to help us understand it. So my point is that in order to get a better prespective of a country, reading newspapers and magazines isn't enough (The question is NOT about whether newspapers and magazines are ENOUGH. It's about whether they are the BEST way. Of course, you can infer that since they are not enough, they are not the best, but you can't leave the argument at being 'enough'.). Take the election of the presidency (Of the United States, I assume?) last year (President Obama assumed office in 2009, but the election was in 2008, which would be the year before the last now.) for example. we may get informed that Obama wins the campaign by reading newspapers (FYI: at the first glance, there's an interesting ambiguity here: do we get informed by reading newspapers, or did Obama win the campaign by reading newspapers? Of course, clever readers will use their common sense to eliminate the latter, but the thought of Obama winning by reading newspapers did make me chuckle.),but why could he could beat the opponents and gain support from the majority is a simple question (Personal comment: if this is a simple question to you, then what might be a hard question by your standards?), and it cannot be easily answered by just several articles inside the newspapers, we may need consult the a political analyzer (The spelling isn't the problem here. The problem is that this person should be called a 'political analyst'.), hit the books in the a library, watch the TV debates, or even listen to the candidacy speech on the spot. To summerize, there are a lot of ways to learn about a foreign country and its culture, besides the indirect messages convered by newspapers and personal expressions on the magazines. (Again, you're still at the 'enough' point. Yes, there are various other ways to learn about a country, and the question itself never restricts you on talking about that. But whether a particular way is the best has little to do with the fact that there are various other ways. It's more about how this particular way COMPARES against others. You had a glimpse of this comparison when you said that newspaper articles can't cover certain questions that other mediums can cover, but by the time you start to summerize, you're back to the point about 'enough' - which is the right thing to do, though, just that you did it on a point that's off the question..) I choose to get a practical experience in real life with certain knowledge about the history (Of what? And where did you elaborate about 'history' in the paragraph, anyway?).
On the other hand, despite the fact the advanced technologies offer us a powerful tool to access any information we need, one cannot exhaust all the knowledge in every aspect about a country, thus the best way of learning about a foreign country is a method that not only studies the micro situations in the country's? public society, especially the human beings, but also understands the marco conditions in main aspects as a whole (Yeah, very big, but empty. What kind of situations and conditions are considered 'micro' or 'macro', anyway? Your readers are likely not experts in sociology. Without solid explanations, such general jargons do not add much meaning to your discussion.). In addition, knowing the process of the development and evolution history is far more important than results and latest acchievements (Are you assuming that 'newspapers and magazines' contain nothing about 'process of development and evolution history', and are all about 'results and latest achievements'? That's such a degrading stereotype. Do you ever read magazines like TIME? XD).
(The essay seems to trail off unfinished. There's no concrete and overall resolution. Plus, the question is not really asking you WHAT the best way is.)
总结:
这位童鞋你是考了G再来考T的吧。。=.=
语言很好很强大,但是还是会犯很基础的语法错误,比如动词的第三人称单数。拼字什么的就不说了。。
最主要的是逻辑方面,题目没什么具体要求,文章就自然开始发散,这没问题,问题是一发散就不回来了。这个题目是一个比较性质的题目,但在你的文章中几乎看不到比较,顺着‘这个不是最好的那么最好的应该是什么’这个方向一路高歌猛进,可是问题没问你最好的是什么啊。。=.= 如果问题没有要求,发散也可以,但必须先说明你为什么需要发散再来发散,但是托福的作文题一般都对内容格式限制得很多,所以,还是拿真题练习比较好。。 |
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