issue 153

费话先生UID: 2788924

嗯，怎么觉得没例子呢？好像纯说理。我都想以身作法了。。。。
TOPIC: ISSUE153 - "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
WORDS: 538

TIME: 00:39:42
DATE: 2010-7-20 11:06:38


Skepticism, broadly defined, is an attitude of incredibility towards everything including a general theory or a specific object. The author claims that every student should hold such an attitude toward what they study in daily's education. I agree with what the author says since skepticism can stimulate a student's interests in studying, encourage him to innovate and think independently.
Students who hold a certain skepticism to study will have more incentives to study and more likely to discuss with teacher. When students start to doubt what the teacher tells to them, they will try to collect information to verify the validity of the teacher's argument afterwards. Through this procedure, they can have a better mastery of knowledge and are more likely to find their favorite field. On the contrary, those who used to accept no matter what the teacher teaches to them have few incentives to rebel the existing theories, so they feel needless to search for more knowledge voluntarily. Additionally, those students who are so full of skepticism incline to debate or discuss with teacher, which further arouse their inspiration and exploratory spirit in turn, In short, due to the strong incentive to doubt whether the teachers are right and the discussions with teachers, the students will devote themselves in study more and better understand what they learn..

Another obvious advantage is that skepticism can encourage students to innovate and think independently. As we all know, skepticism is one of the best impetus to the innovation in one's study. For example, a student who has a skepticism attitude towards the solution on a social issue may try to find the most suitable way he thinks to solve or improve it. Through the procedure of improving and correcting the existing defects, the students learn how to think independently and innovate. Both the creativity and the critique thinking will be quite beneficial to one's future work or further research. Also, due to our students' innovation and critique thinking, the current wrongs can be corrected instead of repeat in the future.


Many people would hold a strong opposition to the opinion from two aspects. The first reason is that the skepticism may lead the class into a situation of disordered. However, the disordered class to a large measure is more easily inspire students' critique thinking and stimulate the interests than an ordered class since the above reasons. The second reason may be that it is not proper for students, especially young students, to doubt everything since they do not have enough ability. But such opinion overlooks the real spirit of skepticism. Skepticism does not mean that a student should deny everything that other tell him. In fact, skepticism is something that encourages you to ask question and explain the question resting on his independent critique thinking rather than an authority's thinking. So, even if students are young and have pretty limited knowledge, students can also benefits a lot from the procedures of collecting information and demonstrating his ideas. A student is allowed to be unfamiliar with Goldbach’s conjecture; but it is rather a pity that he never doubts why one plus one really equates two.

Overall, we should encourage our students to hold certain skepticism in their daily study. The original goal of education is to help a student find his interested field and obtain his goal based on his own independent thinking and own ability. A famous educational professor once said: when people are over thirty years old, most of them will forget ninety percent of what they have ever learned in university. So the most lasting advantage for education is to teach a student how to think himself and make judgment. From the angle, why should we oppose our students to doubt the existing knowledge?

fireflyerllyUID: 2780202

我也刚写了这篇，想不出具体例子，抓狂中。。。没写完时间就到了。。。
第一段用author这个词好像夸张了点吧。看到有人用speaker

费话先生UID: 2788924

同郁闷。。。我差点想take me as an example啦 2# fireflyerlly

fireflyerllyUID: 2780202

我觉得写take me for example也未尝不可啊。但是我觉得例子具体点的好。比如你写学生提问，然后收集资料，这个可以根据自己专业写个具体的题目什么的。比如说我学医的，我就写老师上课讲了hypertension的原因大多是excess salt intake。但是某学生提出是以前看过文章说是genetic factor，然后就去质疑老师，然后再展开写。
然后至于思路，我觉得质疑一个理论，可能会有两种结果，一种是明白它的精髓，还有一种是完善它，最后一种是颠覆它。我是根据这三个步骤写了三段，但我昨天stuck了，写出了一篇干巴巴的文，没结尾就懒得写了。。。

lingli_xiaoaiUID: 172506

俺没有本着鼓励你的心态来改，所以提了一些鸡蛋里面挑骨头的意见。。。你就当是在brainstorm吧。

lingli_xiaoaiUID: 172506

Skepticism, broadly defined, is an attitude of incredibility towards everything including a general theory or a specific object [incredibility towards everything is kind of too board.it looks to me like simple question everything no matter what. Here is definition from WIKIPEDIA --Skepticism is an approach to accepting, rejecting, or suspending judgment on new information that requires the new information to be well supported by evidence. Or remain doubtable unless enough evidence is provided. This is more like to stand as a good attitude towards things than what you stated. ] The author claims that every student should hold such an attitude toward what they study in daily's education. I agree with what the author says since skepticism can stimulate a student's interests in studying, encourage him to innovate and think independently.

Students who hold a certain skepticism to study will have more incentives to study and more likely to discuss with teacher. [1]When students start to doubt what the teacher tells to them, they will try to collect information to verify the validity of the teacher's argument afterwards. Through this procedure, they can have a better mastery of knowledge and are more likely to find their favorite field. [2]On the contrary, those who used to accept no matter what the teacher teaches to them have few incentives to rebel the existing theories, so they feel needless to search for more knowledge voluntarily.[3] Additionally, those students who are so full of skepticism incline to debate or discuss with teacher, which further arouse their inspiration and exploratory spirit in turn, In short, due to the strong incentive to doubt whether the teachers are right and the discussions with teachers, the students will devote themselves in study more and better understand what they learn. [To me, [1] and [3] can be combined, and put together as whole to prove the benefit of skepticism and then start with[2]…this way, your logic flow is more clear. One more thing is that you started using “More” from the very beginning, but you didn’t specify whom or what you’re comparing to. Don’t assume everyone already knew that, you still need to specify most of times.]


Another obvious advantage is that skepticism can encourage students to innovate and think independently. As we all know, skepticism is one of the best impetus to the innovation in one's study. For example, a student who has a skepticism attitude towards the solution on a social issue may try to find the most [alternative] suitable way he thinks to solve or improve it. Through the procedure of improving and correcting the existing defects, the students learn how to think independently and innovate. Both the creativity and the critique thinking will be quite beneficial to one's future work or further research. Also, due to our students' innovation and critique thinking, the current wrongs can be corrected instead of repeat in the future.

[This point can be good if you make better connection with the topic. Just think about your definition of skepticism, that is, remain unconvinced when there is not enough evidence. Does skepticism necessarily means, one would try to provide better answer to a question?  I can disagree with you by providing all the evidence to against you, but I don’t need to provide alternative answer to a certain question. Just like social problem, I don’t think raise taxes will solve the economic crisis, so I can say xxx increase tax in xxx, it didn’t help. Then it’s done. I don’t need to suggest a better way. Maybe what you discuss here can be form a point like “What is the right way to express skepticism or how make best use of skepticism. But I am not sure about all this, just something you could think about.]


Many people would hold a strong opposition to the opinion from two aspects. The first reason is that the skepticism may lead the class into a situation of disordered. However, the disordered class to a large measure is more easily inspire students' critique thinking and stimulate the interests than an ordered class since the above reasons. The second reason may be that it is not proper for students, especially young students, to doubt everything since they do not have enough ability. But such opinion overlooks the real spirit of skepticism. Skepticism does not mean that a student should deny everything that other tell him. In fact, skepticism is something that encourages you to ask question and explain the question resting on his independent critique thinking rather than an authority's thinking. So, even if students are young and have pretty limited knowledge, students can also benefits a lot from the procedures of collecting information and demonstrating his ideas. A student is allowed to be unfamiliar with Goldbach’s conjecture; but it is rather a pity that he never doubts why one plus one really equates two.  [this paragraph is like argument, it’s ok put there to strength your argument, but as I said, your definition of skepticism is too vague to suggest “skepticism is something that encourages you to ask question and explain the question resting on his independent critique thinking rather than an authority's thinking”, you really didn’t discuss this or your didn’t qualify what you think skepticism is really about. So it comes to me the idea that you could first qualify what the right attitude to skepticism, and what is wrong (including response to people doesn’t share with your opinion; then you could discuss the good thing about it.]

Overall, we should encourage our students to hold certain skepticism in their daily study. The original goal of education is to help a student find his interested field and obtain his goal based on his own independent thinking and own ability. A famous educational professor once said: when people are over thirty years old, most of them will forget ninety percent of what they have ever learned in university. So the most lasting advantage for education is to teach a student how to think himself and make judgment. From the angle, why should we oppose our students to doubt the existing knowledge?

[I think your issue this time is good in a sense, you have a clear idea of what you want to discuss and free of obvious grammar mistakes and word mis-usage.  But it can be improved in the way you organized your discussion. You should try to make it as smooth as possible. People won’t have to think and follow your discussion naturally instead of feeling that you’re jump between points you want to make. Like the “many people may argue”  paragraph,  to me it comes form nowhere, you may need proper transition to link your paragraph. But all the things I point out, simply because I have more time to think than you, it doesn’t mean you have to avoid all them, but you can avoid some of them.]

figuechenUID: 2850619

TOPIC: ISSUE153 - "Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."
WORDS: 538

TIME: 00:39:42
DATE: 2010-7-20 11:06:38


Skepticism, broadly defined, is an attitude of incredibility towards everything including a general theory or a specific object. The author claims that every student should hold such an attitude toward what they study in daily's [daily就行了]education. I agree with what the author says since skepticism can stimulate a student's interests in studying, [用逗号不太好吧，用and好了]encourage him to innovate and think independently.
Students who hold a certain skepticism to study will have more incentives to study and more likely to discuss with teacher. When students start to doubt what the teacher tells to them, they will try to collect information to verify the validity of the teacher's argument afterwards. Through this procedure, they can have a better mastery of knowledge and are more likely to find their favorite field. On the contrary, those who used to accept no matter what the teacher teaches to them have few incentives to rebel the existing theories, so they feel needless to search for more knowledge voluntarily. Additionally, those students who are so full of skepticism incline to debate or discuss with teacher, which further arouse their inspiration and exploratory spirit in turn, In short, due to the strong incentive to doubt whether the teachers are right and the discussions with teachers, the students will devote themselves in study more and better understand what they learn..

Another obvious advantage is that skepticism can encourage students to innovate and think independently. As we all know, skepticism is one of the best impetus to the innovation in one's study. For example, a student who has a skepticism attitude towards the solution on a social issue may try to find the most suitable way he thinks to solve or improve it. Through the procedure of improving and correcting the existing defects, the students learn how to think independently and innovate. Both the creativity and the critique thinking will be quite beneficial to one's future work or further research. Also, due to our students' innovation and critique thinking, the current wrongs can be corrected instead of repeat in the future.


Many people would hold a strong opposition to the opinion from two aspects. The first reason is that the skepticism may lead the class into a situation of disordered. However, the disordered class to a large measure is more easily inspire students' critique thinking and stimulate the interests than an ordered class since the above reasons. The second reason may be that it is not proper for students, especially young students, to doubt everything since they do not have enough ability. But such opinion overlooks the real spirit of skepticism. Skepticism does not mean that a student should deny everything that other tell him. In fact, skepticism is something that encourages you to ask question and explain the question resting on his independent critique thinking rather than an authority's thinking. So, even if students are young and have pretty limited knowledge, students can also benefits a lot from the procedures of collecting information and demonstrating his ideas. A student is allowed to be unfamiliar with Goldbach’s conjecture; but it is rather a pity that he never doubts why one plus one really equates two.

Overall, we should encourage our students to hold certain skepticism in their daily study. The original goal of education is to help a student find his interested field and obtain his goal based on his own independent thinking and own ability. A famous educational professor once said: when people are over thirty years old, most of them will forget ninety percent of what they have ever learned in university. So the most lasting advantage for education is to teach a student how to think himself and make judgment. From the angle, why should we oppose our students to doubt the existing knowledge?

文章立意为完全同意。文章分了三段，分别阐述了怀疑能促进学习；怀疑能鼓励独立思考；反驳了怀疑会导致混乱和不适合于所有学生的说法。

总的来说文章的思路比较清晰，文笔很流畅，遣词造句都比较合理。但文章对skepticism的定义一直都不很清楚，直到P4才点明，其实可以早一些说，这样能照顾到P2 P3的观点。另外P2和P3的观点缺乏一些例子，不过教育的题目似乎本身就缺乏例证。但P2段落内的观点有些重复，感觉有点一句话反复说的感觉，最好能有些层次感。
还有，文章对否定skepticism的反驳不是太彻底。比如没有回答skepticism towards everything是不是太绝对了，是不是太费时间等。


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