Issue50【Triple Week】第4次练习by ahng

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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: 594          TIME: 00:43:11          DATE: 2009-7-19 16:45:14

Issues over the education in college and university are always controversial in the debate nowadays. In the above statement, the author holds the perspective that all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world. However, I can only partially agree with the statement. In my point of view, work on the courses is necessary but not a must for all faculty in college and university.

To begin with, the colleges and universities have two main tasks, one of which is researching while the other one is teaching. Neither of the two responsibilities can be ignored by us, since the two aspects are promoting and progressing together due to their inherent relationship. Teaching can attract more students to become researchers contributing to the various areas of science and technology, and will definitely improve the ability of researches and inventions. Besides, with the academical development, the researchers have to make the results or knowledge they have achieved last long in order to promoting the whole system of science. So they must teach. To enable the future generations have a more firm basis for researching.

From the respect of teaching, students need the guidance and support of teachers and professors indeed. Without the help of precedentors, only a little part of the students may gain the knowledge and achieve a successful career for themselve. On the other hand, with the guidance of professors, the study of the students can be more efficient. Perhaps it is really common in our universities that the students who love to ask questions to teachers can be more dilligent than who do not. That's probably owing to the teachers' supports.

However, from another respect, the main task of most of faculty is actually to do research. It is clear that doing research needs them to spend much time and energy. As my teacher always says, "Doing research is not as same as study since it needs you to be more patient and dilligent. You may think of a problem all day long but with no result. You may write a lot of notes or papers but finally find them all wrong. You may make efforts but in vain." Thus, if the faculty spend more time on the courses, the their research procedure will definitely become more difficult. In order to get a more free environment of research, they should not spend much time on teaching courses.

Last but not least, even though the faculty should spend time working outside the academic world, yet they should not be required to do teaching. As we know, different people have different characters. So do the faculty. They have distinct responsibilities due to their respective abilities. For example, some professors are distinguished in the academic world because of their ability on researching. They can be really busy on some conferences, some scientific magazines or some experiments of researches. Then do you think it a good idea to require them to spend more time on teaching? If any university does so, probably the professors will leave the school for some places more convenient to conducting research.

To sum up, the society is composed of various divisions of work, so is the university. Since the responsibility of the university is not only teaching but also researching, neither of which can be neglected, it is not a must to required all the faculty to spend time in professions relevant to the courses they teach, while it is actually a need for them to teach students, who is the future of our academy, science, and society.

ahngUID: 2605383

啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊，看错题了！555555555~~~~~

mymuroUID: 2356228

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: 594          TIME: 00:43:11          DATE: 2009-7-19 16:45:14

Issues over the education in college and university are always controversial in the debate nowadays. In the above statement, the author holds the perspective that all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world. However, I can only partially agree with the statement. In my point of view, work on the courses is necessary but not a must for all faculty in college and university.

To begin with, the colleges and universities have two main tasks, one of which is researching while the other one is teaching. Neither of the two responsibilities can be ignored by us, since the two aspects are promoting and progressing together due to their inherent relationship. Teaching can attract more students to become researchers contributing to the various areas of science and technology, and will definitely improve the ability of researches and inventions. Besides, with the academical（academic） development, the researchers have to make the results or knowledge they have achieved last long in order to promoting（promote） the whole system of science. So they must teach. To enable the future generations have a more firm basis for researching.

From the respect of teaching, students need the guidance and support of teachers and professors indeed. Without the help of precedentors（predecessor？？）, only a little part of the students may gain the knowledge and achieve a successful career for themselves. On the other hand, with the guidance of professors, the study of the students can be more efficient. Perhaps it is really common in our universities that the students who love to ask questions to teachers can be more diligent than who do not. That's probably owing to the teachers' supports.
看不出跟outside working的关系- -

However, from another respect, the main task of most of the faculty is actually to do research. It is clear that doing research needs them to spend much time and energy. As my teacher always says, "Doing research is not as same as study since it needs you to be more patient and diligent. You may think of a problem all day long but with no result. You may write a lot of notes or papers but finally find them all wrong. You may make efforts but in vain." Thus, if the faculty spend more time on the courses, then their research procedure will definitely become more difficult. In order to get a more free（freer） environment of research, they should not spend much time on teaching courses.
貌似teaching跟research都是教学质量的一部分吧

Last but not least, even though the faculty should spend time working outside the academic world, yet they should not be required to do teaching. As we know, different people have different characters. So do the faculty. They have distinct responsibilities due to their respective abilities. For example, some professors are distinguished in the academic world because of their ability on researching. They can be really busy on some conferences, some scientific magazines or some experiments of researches. Then do you think it a good idea to require them to spend more time on teaching? If any university does so, probably the professors will leave the school for some places more convenient to conducting research.
读到这里发现问题了，作者把research看做something outside the academic world。。。
我的理解是outside working是指接外面公司的项目做，而research还是academic 里面的

To sum up, the society is composed of various divisions of work, so is the university. Since the responsibility of the university is not only teaching but also researching, neither of which can be neglected, it is not a must to required all the faculty to spend time in professions relevant to the courses they teach, while it is actually a need for them to teach students, who is the future of our academy, science, and society.

点评：我的读后感是作者把research看作outside the academic的东西了，大错啊。。。
      作者把题目理解成teaching和research何者更重要，怎么combine的问题了
      希望回去研究一下，重新写过吧。。。off-topic可是0分啊！！

mymuroUID: 2356228

啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊，看错题了！555555555~~~~~
ahng 发表于 2009-7-20 20:53

发上修改了才发现你这回复。。。
赶快修干传上来让我看看吧- -

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4# mymuro


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: 728          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2009-7-21 13:59:09

Education always arouse much controversy in our debate. The statement above indicates that all faculty should be required to work outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach, intending to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university. However, I do not completely agree with the author. In my point of view, it is helpful for faculty majored in some certain areas to work moderately outside the academy.

To begin with, teachers or professors working in the professions related to their courses, which need the ability of practice such as programming, can largely improve their experiences in their fields. As we know, the colleges and universities are built not only to adopt talents who have the potentials to mine the world of science, but also create an environment for students to gain more skills or techniques which assist them to achieve a significant career in the future. By working outside, the teachers will have more knowledge about the ability of workers or engineers demanded by the industry or society. In this case, it will get more easy and more purposeful for them to guide their students to better fit the needs of companies outside the campus, and then go on a better future. For example, as a student majored in computer science, some of my teachers are also working in a software company. When i took their classes, they could always tell us something about the industry and about what is most demanded if we were applying jobs. Thus, all of us students can be more clear about the important points in our courses and then we can spend more time on these skills and technologies.

Secondly, while faculty who are engaging in the engineering or what is more associated with the industy is recommended to work outside the academic world, it is less important and helpful for those professors who are teaching literatures or arts to get such jobs. That is to say, the courses decide the choices. On the one hand, the arts and literatures are less demanded by the society, thus it is really hard for professors to find a suitable job. And what's more, even if they work in some art office or magazine company, what they do in the companies are the same as what they are teaching in the univeristies: painting, writing, and so on. In other words, the jobs they find outside the campus are not any necessity to improve their experience in teaching courses. On the other hand, people engaging in arts or literatures need to spend more time on investiagating their majors and practise their skills. They pay more attention on the creation and innovation of their works, which is less important in doing such a job, which can probably waste their time. Thus, for faulty in these areas, it's better to do more thinking and research in their free time.

Last but not the least, the working goal of the professors in college and univeristy are not only to teach courses but also to do research. Universities are the most important factors that contribute to the development of our society and our academy. Common sense tells us that a good school can never be a good university. Only when the university also has powerful strength in doing research, it will be a first-class university over the world. Thus, when we considering how to effectively teach classes, we should also take into account the conditions of the teachers' researches. If they take too much time in working outside the campus, how would they spare time on reading papers, doing experiments and attending conferences? Indeed, it is necessary for faculty to balance the time they spend on both teaching and researching. Furthermore, since different teachers have different abilities and responsibilities, it is still not wise for us to say that all faculty should be required to take jobs. Some can be busy on doing researches, some can be engaging in the construction of our campus, and some can also be working on the administration of our students. Therefore, never be too absolute.

To sum up, it is necessary but not compulsory for the professors who are engaging in the courses that are most related to practice and most demanded by the society to take another jobs working properly outside the academic world in order to improve the teaching quality.

ahngUID: 2605383

重写了一遍，麻烦看看吧，谢谢了！~~~汗

mymuroUID: 2356228

Education always arouse much controversy in our debate. The statement above indicates that all faculty should be required to work outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach, intending to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university. However, I do not completely agree with the author. In my point of view, it is helpful for faculty majored in some certain areas to work moderately（nice word） outside the academy.

To begin with, teachers or professors working in the professions related to their courses, which need the ability of practice such as programming, can largely improve their experiences in their fields. As we know, the colleges and universities are built not only to adopt talents who have the potentials to mine the world of science, but also create an environment for students to gain more skills or techniques which assist them to achieve a significant career in the future. By working outside, the teachers will have more knowledge about the ability of workers or engineers demanded by the industry or society. In this case, it will get more easy（easier，貌似作者所有词一律加more，忘了还有加er一说） and more purposeful for them to guide their students to better fit the needs of companies outside the campus, and then go on a better future. For example, as a student majored in computer science, some of my teachers are also working in a software company. When I took their classes, they could always tell us something about the industry and about what is most demanded if we were applying jobs. Thus, all of us students can be more clear(clearer) about the important points in our courses and then we can spend more time on these skills and technologies.（怎么我没想到！！）

Secondly, while faculty who are engaging in the engineering or what is more associated with the industry is recommended to work outside the academic world, it is less important and helpful for those professors who are teaching literatures or arts to get such jobs. That is to say, the courses decide the choices. On the one hand, the arts and literatures are less demanded by the society, thus it is really hard for professors to find a suitable job. And what's more, even if they work in some art office or magazine company, what they do in the companies are the same as what they are teaching in the universities: painting, writing, and so on. In other words, the jobs they find outside the campus are not any necessity to improve their experience in teaching courses. On the other hand, people engaging in arts or literatures need to spend more time on investigating their majors and practice their skills. They pay more attention on the creation and innovation of their works, which is less important in doing such a job, which can probably waste their time（不知道两个which可以不？我建议把前面的such a job改成such a time-wasting job）. Thus, for faulty in these areas, it's better to do more thinking and research in their free time.

Last but not the least, the working goal of the professors in college and university are not only to teach courses but also to do research. Universities are the most important factors that contribute to the development of our society and our academy. Common sense tells us that a good school can never be a good university. Only when the university also has powerful strength in doing research, it will be a first-class university over the world. Thus, when we are considering how to effectively teach classes, we should also take into account the conditions of the teachers' researches. If they take too much time in working outside the campus, how would they spare time on reading papers, doing experiments and attending conferences? Indeed, it is necessary for faculty to balance the time they spend on both teaching and researching. Furthermore, since different teachers have different abilities and responsibilities, it is still not wise for us to say that all faculty should be required to take jobs. Some can be busy on doing researches, some can be engaging in the construction of our campus, and some can also be working on the administration of our students. Therefore, never be too absolute.（感觉口语化了）

To sum up, it is necessary but not compulsory for the professors who are engaging in the courses that are most related to practice and most demanded by the society to take another jobs（job） working properly outside the academic world in order to improve the teaching quality.
短了点，说明一下要根据专业和时间来决定是否需要出外工作较好

点评：佩服一下，45分钟内写得很充分了，就是最后一段没能很好概括中间三段。语言也比较流畅了，只发现了比较级的问题。。。
      In a word，wonderful essay.