我的习作ISSUE50，球拍！

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"In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach."



Nowadays, with the great development of society and explosion of information leading to unceasingly rapid change of technology, there is much controversy over the issue of whether it is better or not for the faculty to spend time doing some relevant practices outside the professionally academic world. As far as I am concerned, this is a recommendable approach to keep abreast with the era and eventually achieve a better result of the teachers' instruction. However, it is unnecessary and also unwarranted to extend this broad assertion to embrace all faculty at the college and university, especially for those who are focused on pure theoretical field. In the following discussion, I would like to present evidence to support my point of view.

To begin with, practicing outside the college accords with the purpose of education, which is to cultivate students meeting the requirement of the society. What the modern society needs most are the talents who are capable of applying their knowledge on correct respects in real world, instead of researching useless or not realizable theories. Only by practices can the faculty correctly grasp the need of the modern society, which would be more beneficial to their guidance to the students. Thus they can lead the learners to the proper direction which the society calls for.

Another great advantage of working in the practical world is to enable a better comprehension on their relevant fields.  For a majority of fields, such as marketing and business, the theories in the books are usually so stiff or even misleading that it would be vague and unreliable when solving problems in real practical world. For instance, the marketing doctrines tell us it is most profitable to make an investment with little risk based on several economic analyses. However, the profit of an investment is always influence both subjective and objective factors. Chances are that political problems or possible confliction with the local custom would cause a painful deficit. Without any practices on such business, it is hard and nearly impossible for a person to do wise decision even if he has got the full score on the theories. Therefore, it would be lucky and vitally helpful for the students if the professor has got the experience on practices.

Apart from these, experience on practical world may inspire the learners with much interest insofar as students would easily be attracted by the fresh stories about the professors' work when in face of the dull and boring theories in the books. This could render the classes easier and happier for students to accept both theories and useful experience. Furthermore, perchance the knowledge in the teaching material is generally out of date in the era of rapid development of science and technology. Working outside the academic world also makes their horizons abreast with the time and reduce the possibility of misleading instruction on the classes.

Nevertheless, I would caution that extending this broad assertion too far might risk undermining those positive objectives. For some special faculties, especially for those who are focused on the pure theoretical fields, such as advanced mathematics and philosophy, it is unnecessary or unwarranted to be employed outside the college and university. For example, hardly can we find an associated employment for a pure philosopher. Besides, an overloaded additional position may distract the faculty from the research they are fixed on. Therefore, we should call for a balance in major research and relevant work.

In the final analysis, it is advisable for most faculties in college and university to have an additional employment related to their fields. This recommendation would achieve an expected improvement on instruction. However, it is not appropriate for all faculty to conduct and we should call for a balance in major research and the attached work.


第一篇ISSUE，无限时，谢谢各位了！

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众位大虾帮个帮啊……谢谢了！

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我可不是大虾哈o(>﹏<)o  我和你差不多。。。

我今天刚好也写了这个 那就顺便交流一下哈

Nowadays, with the great development of society and explosion of information leading to unceasingly rapid change of technology, there is much controversy over the issue of whether it is better or not for the faculty to spend time doing some relevant practices outside the professionally academic world. As far as I am concerned, this is a recommendable approach to keep abreast with the era and eventually achieve a better result of the teachers' instruction. However, it is unnecessary and also unwarranted to extend this broad assertion to embrace all faculty at the college and university, especially for those who are focused on pure theoretical field. In the following discussion, I would like to present evidence to support my point of view.

To begin with, practicing outside the college accords with the purpose of education, which is to cultivate students meeting the requirement of the society. What the modern society needs most are the talents who are capable of applying their knowledge on correct respects in real world, instead of researching useless or not realizable theories. Only by practices can the faculty correctly grasp the need of the modern society, which would be more beneficial to their guidance to the students. Thus they can lead the learners to the proper direction which the society calls for.
第二段第一句似乎有点语法错误（word说的）
第二段说的是实用主义，老师知道了才能交给学生，否则学生可能很理论（是不是这个意思？）

Another great advantage of working in the practical world is to enable a better comprehension on their relevant fields.  For a majority of fields, such as marketing and business, the theories in the books are usually so stiff or even misleading that it would be vague and unreliable when solving problems in real practical world. For instance, the marketing doctrines tell us it is most profitable to make an investment with little risk based on several economic analyses. However, the profit of an investment is always influence这个貌似得用被动的influenced by吧？ both subjective and objective factors. Chances are that political problems or possible confliction with the local custom would cause a painful deficit. Without any practices on such business, it is hard and nearly impossible for a person to do wise decision even if he has got the full score on the theories. Therefore, it would be lucky and vitally helpful for the students if the professor has got the experience on practices.
我觉得这段不是很好诶，因为学生本身如果没有practice那弄了半天还是没搞明白怎么回事。这个应该是用来论证学生应该参加practice更加好。 网上推一代来说：就是说如果老师的老师practice过了，那作为学生的老师就不用practice就可以得到经验。如果否认这一点，那么这段讲的东西和instructions关系不够紧密。

Apart from these, experience on practical world may inspire the learners with much interest insofar as students would easily be attracted by the fresh stories about the professors' work when in face of the dull and boring theories in the books. This could render the classes easier and happier for students to accept both theories and useful experience. Furthermore, perchance这个貌似是古代的用法吧。。。 the knowledge in the teaching material is generally out of date in the era of rapid development of science and technology. Working outside the academic world also makes their horizons abreast with the time and reduce貌似应该加个s的 the possibility of misleading instruction on the classes.
这段讲了兴趣（有实践经验的老师讲的东西有意思）+ 知识更新

Nevertheless, I would caution that extending this broad assertion too far might risk undermining those positive objectives. For some special faculties, especially for those who are focused on the pure theoretical fields, such as advanced mathematics and philosophy, it is unnecessary or unwarranted to be employed outside the college and university. For example, hardly can we find an associated employment for a pure philosopher. Besides, an overloaded additional position may distract the faculty from the research they are fixed on. Therefore, we should call for a balance in major research and relevant work.

In the final analysis, it is advisable for most faculties in college and university to have an additional employment related to their fields. This recommendation would achieve an expected improvement on instruction. However, it is not appropriate for all faculty to conduct and we should call for a balance in major research and the attached work.

Diction做的不错 广度也挺好的

诶 我17号就考了。。。Orz

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这个是我今天写的同主题

大致提纲

1.        学科发展迅速，书本知识落后 是提出这种想法的一大原因，如此可更新知识；实践经验有助于案例教学，
2.        学生可以通过有实践经验的老师的帮助职业生涯规划
3.        学术研究的突破
4.        但是实践经验如果时间有限可能反而对教学有局限性，而过多的实践可能影响教学
5.        有部分学科无法找到相对应的工作（人文、理科），或者其学科研究本身就是实践活动（比如音乐和美术）Speaker的说法过于局限

TOPIC: ISSUE50 - "In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach."
WORDS: 518          TIME: 00:40:00          DATE: 2010/8/13 14:57:57

The ivory tower, in our eyes, might be a little bit too idealistic. And the speaker's assertion encourages all faculties to work outside the academic field in professions relevant to the courses they teach, so as to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level. Based on my observation, I fundamentally agree with this contention.

Spending time in relevant work would conduce to more effective and practical teaching in classes. According to the recent statistics from the education department of some prestigious university in United States, the knowledge of many disciplines and fields nowadays are changing so drastically almost every moment that what students have learned in freshman and sophomore years would be totally useless when they graduated. And this situation stands out especially in the fields of information technology and bio-chemistry. These courses are critical to today's science development and contribute to human lives to larger and larger extent; thus many scholars and researchers exert their efforts in discovering technologies and know-how in such fields. However, this is not a good signal for instruction in schools. Fortunately, through working in professions relevant to the courses the faculty teach, they tend to conceive new ideas and concepts and latest trends in their disciplines. Moreover, the practice in solving real world problems would help teachers with their case study teaching, especially for business school faculty.

On the other hand, students who are eager to make up their own career plans would also benefit from teachers' experience in relevant jobs. The faculty would utilize the opportunities working in relevant enterprise to become familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of specific careers relevant to their fields. And this is of extremely significance for students who want to plan their career before stepping in society. Teachers would be better capable of imparting both latest expertise and relevant experience about solving real world problems to their students. Thus students can envisage their future career’s contents and prospects.

Furthermore, with ample practice and experience, the faculty in university would come up with breakthroughs more easily. Not only the quality of instruction would profit from this scheme, research and study held by faculty might also enjoy a boom. In history, many inventions and brand-new concepts stem from needs in society. Once the teachers work in relevant professions they study, they would probably find new problems which might not be perceived in labs, thus they would study on them and find solutions. In this way, people would expect more breakthroughs from teachers who have experience outside their academic world

However, undue time of working would undermine the quality of teaching in colleges. If the faculties spend too long time in working, they would find the time for teaching and preparing for teaching is restricted, which would reversely impair the effectiveness of instruction. Thus, we should prevent such situation and set some kind of limit for the faculty.

And the speaker's assertion that all faculties should be required to do so is a hasty generalization. For some specific fields, such scheme is not feasible. Like theoretical physics, it might not be an easy task for faculty majoring this to find apt jobs. And for some subjects, like music composing and painting, relevant jobs might be very similar with academic activities. For these subjects, the feasibility of the notion is challenged.

In sum, I agree insofar as most faculties would benefit from spending some time working outside the academic world in profession relevant to the courses they teach, as long as the instruction would not be undermined by excessive jobs.

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4# ichbinlzt
谢谢你的修改。你过奖了，迫于GRE改革的压力，我连4级都没考就来看GRE，纯粹是高中毕业生水平，在gter中绝对是垫底的，从我那错漏百出的语法错误中就可以看出来了……

另外我第一段喜欢那样写啊，可以帮我找出那个语法错误吗？

The ivory tower, in our eyes, might be a little bit too idealistic. And the speaker's assertion encourages all faculties to work outside the academic field in professions relevant to the courses they teach, so as to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level. Based on my observation, I fundamentally agree with this contention.

这里你应该是想用象牙塔比喻大学吧，不知道对不对，记得高中的英语老师跟我们说过这个比喻是这样的：象牙塔的原意就是idealistic的世界，而因为中国人认为大学校园很idealistic,所以才用象牙塔比喻大学，你现在反过来又说象牙塔idealistic，老外看了会很奇怪的。这个我没有考证过，高中时一直将信将疑，希望刚好借这次机会搞清楚，不知你觉得如何？

Spending time in relevant work would conduce to more effective and practical teaching in classes. According to the recent statistics from the education department of some prestigious university in United States, the knowledge of many disciplines and fields nowadays are changing so drastically almost every moment that what students have learned in freshman and sophomore years would be totally useless when they graduated. And this situation stands out especially in the fields of information technology and bio-chemistry. These courses are critical to today's science development and contribute to human lives to larger and larger extent; thus many scholars and researchers exert their efforts in discovering technologies and know-how in such fields. However, this is not a good signal for instruction in schools. Fortunately, through working in professions relevant to the courses the faculty teach, they tend to conceive new ideas and concepts and latest trends in their disciplines. Moreover, the practice in solving real world problems would help teachers with their case study teaching, especially for business school faculty.

On the other hand, students who are eager to make up their own career plans would also benefit from teachers' experience in relevant jobs. The faculty would utilize the opportunities working in relevant enterprise to become familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of specific careers relevant to their fields. And this is of extremely significance for students who want to plan their career before stepping in society. Teachers would be better capable of imparting both latest expertise and relevant experience about solving real world problems to their students. Thus students can envisage their future career’s contents and prospects.

语感告诉我，society 用 step in有点别扭，一般都用enter (into)的，你可以google一下，step in society 根本搜不到例子，而enter society却比较常见。step in一般指干涉某事。当然我也不太确定……

这一段的idea我怎么就想不到呢？我觉得我的第三段换一种说法变成你这个意思就好了。

Furthermore, with ample practice and experience, the faculty in university would come up with breakthroughs more easily. Not only the quality of instruction would profit from this scheme, research and study held by faculty might also enjoy a boom. In history, many inventions and brand-new concepts stem from needs in society. Once the teachers work in relevant professions they study, they would probably find new problems which might not be perceived in labs, thus they would study on them and find solutions. In this way, people would expect more breakthroughs from teachers who have experience outside their academic world

这一点我之前有想过，这是实践对教员在research方面的作用，然而我觉得题目讨论的都是对教学质量的作用，感觉写对research的作用有些偏了，最终放弃了。你觉得如何？

However, undue time of working would undermine the quality of teaching in colleges. If the faculties spend too long time in working, they would find the time for teaching and preparing for teaching is restricted, which would reversely impair the effectiveness of instruction. Thus, we should prevent such situation and set some kind of limit for the faculty.

And the speaker's assertion that all faculties should be required to do so is a hasty generalization. For some specific fields, such scheme is not feasible. Like theoretical physics, it might not be an easy task for faculty majoring this to find apt jobs. And for some subjects, like music composing and painting, relevant jobs might be very similar with academic activities. For these subjects, the feasibility of the notion is challenged.

In sum, I agree insofar as most faculties would benefit from spending some time working outside the academic world in profession relevant to the courses they teach, as long as the instruction would not be undermined by excessive jobs.

总体感觉很好，你很棒啊！

另外麻烦你也帮我看一下我第二篇ISSUE吧，改完了最好短消息一下，谢谢了！
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1138747-1-1.html