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发表于 2009-3-15 11:11:25
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本帖最后由 dengqinbo 于 2009-3-15 11:24 编辑
To chelseajcole and to everyone who are preparing for toefl essay:
这是我表妹给我的评价和建议,她在美国土生土长的,现在7年纪。。。用她的话讲,我作文写得还很烂。。。红色字是她的批语以及修改,黑色字里面也有她的修改,大家可以对照着我写得原文看,她很改了一些我的句子结构和措辞。蓝色字是说她觉得与topic,但是没删掉。帖在这里,主要希望对大家进一步了解老美的写作思路有所帮助。另外,后面她用黑体字写了总评,和她列出的观点啥的。大家批判着看吧,也别把一个小屁孩的娃当真了。
There has been a heated debate on problem-solving whether people should turn to others for help or should work the puzzle out themselves. Some people suggest that we handle the problem ourselves. However, I prefer to take advices from the experienced adults or peers to help me solve the problem. By asking others for help, individuals can easily grasp new concepts.
First, asking others for help is a very effective and quick way to solve a problem. Difficulty means, something that is hard to do or surmount. (CHING CHING! A DIFFICULTY IS SO NOT THAT!!!! DIFFICULTY IS WHEN YOU STRUGGLE! ITS LIKE A CHALLENGE!) If you’ve never experienced a new difficult task before, it is hard to deal since you’d know nothing about it. You would be clueless about what to do and you’d try to guess. What if your guess is wrong, what if it just makes things worse? “It is said that 'desperate time calls for desperate measurement', then I just need to try. No matter what, the 101th trail must be right after my 100 disappointments." I would rather mock at than show my admiration for it because I would rather get help and get it right the FIRST time rather than waste time doing it 100 times. Instead of facing the problem alone, it is best to get help from others, they might be experienced in what problem you have.tion is to collect as much information as possible before you begin to work on it. From your friends, families, or teachers, you could gain sufficient and precious knowledge of this "difficulty". Has the monster gradually revealed the awful mask and taken on its real looking, can you come to realize that finally it is not insurmountable than it is supposed to. Contrary to that may it be even easier to settle than any other you have done with. (irrelevant to the topic) Then, how long have you been taken to solve the problem? Maybe several hours, or one day or more, it is not for sure, but what I am for sure is that you can't spend more time and effort than if not asking for help.
Also, if you communicate with others, you can exchange knowledge and ideas from a different perspective. For example, if you’re going to take a trip to Shanghai, a beautiful coastal city. Knowing scanty about the traveling expense, it would be best to seek out advice from people who have visited Shanghai a lot. Instead of scrolling numerous pages of “up-to-date and best guiding” that are useless and BIASED, you’d have much better luck having UNBIASED advice from a friend who LIVES in Shanghai, thanks to that friend, you will attain so much useful information, like, transportation tools, the fee of scenery spots, hotel prices and services, and useful tips like which places are cheap but have high quality! If you tried to solve this problem yourself, you may not have gotten this best service and wasted a lot of money. If you ask for help, you will attan useful information, save a lot of money, and be much happier. {Like which restaurant serves the best dishes, what kind of souvenir is a waste of money and so on. She helped you save a large amount of money. At the end of your conversation, she said she was about to fly to your city for business in a few months. As a return, you render her as much as you know about your hometown, which would be enough for her during her staying. In a word, you both earn your wishes by sharing with your own inconvenience, yet at the beginning none could have been expected this. (Kind of irrelevant now) Now that the benefit of communication outweighs its disadvantages, everyone should learn to speak out of your questions to others. Perhaps the solution is found during the course of communication.
It is true that solving a problem on your own means you’re pretty smart and that you can solve other problems like this. (I don’t know if that is good), I prefer to the more-than-one participation style of problem-solving. One’s knowledge is more or less limit, though, wisdom of a group is endless. This way, you can have different perspectives and think differently in a more efficient way. Only in this way, can you achieve the ultimate goal in shortest time and with most desirable answers.
Ching Ching, good example. In the first paragraph, write about a PERSONAL experience that you did. For example, : Once when I was a young swimmer, I tried to do the stroke freestyle. I was strong but not fast. Why? Because my stroke and skill was clumsy and naïve. I did not know how to swim in an efficient way. I tried to perfect my stroke myself but I didn’t have good results. Later, I asked my coach on how to do it. He said, “You’re not kicking enough, if you kick more, your body will be flat on top of the water which will enable you to move through the water more easily.” My coach told me other tips and advices and by the end of the a few weeks, my freestyle was fast, efficient and a danger to other swimmers hoping to be #1. ……………………. Ching Ching, you need a life experience to show that what your saying is true and giving them a real example is much better than simulating one. Also, what if I am not good enough? I am in the 7th grade and I supposedly write like a highschooler since I am in the gifted and talented class but what if they look at the paper and say, “HEY! WAS THIS WRITTEN BY A SEVENTH GRADER?” anyways good first paragraph, but you need STRONG EXAMPLES! I’ll list MY reasons for asking others to help solve a problem.
- People can give you tips and knowledge, they can give you a different perspective on how to think. For example, when other people correct my paper (see where this is going?) they correct me and I learn fast since they are much more experienced. I learned knew things, like what the meaning of a word was, before, I though it meant something else. (like the owrd difficult, you had the meaning wrong at first but then later you got it right because I provided you with more knowledge and I got you tips from correcting your paper)
- If you work ALONE you may do the wrong things thinking it is right and that will screw you up while others look down on you thinking (is she stupid?)
- Its faster to ask help, you just get it and you can try 1000 times with out help and get it right but who wants to waste time? It’s better to get it right the FIRST time rather than wasting your time doing alone!
- If you ask others, you can learn about their mistakes and learn from them you you won’t make the same mistakes. People can warn you on what not to do!
Is this enough reasons? GET 100 ON YOUR PAPER!
PS:基本上改的面目全非了,大家可以把这个当做一个美国初中生写作的思路。(硬是具体的惨) |
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