写作技能夯实日志

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结束辛苦的GRE已经一个多月了，好久也没有来到AW版， 在3月份准备AW的一个月里，自己学到很多：

1. critical thinking
2. be specific and clear
3. 增加自己的主动词汇

但是，考试不是目的，提高写作的能力是非常必要的，所以打算从今天开始，夯实自己的写作能力

计划暂定如下：

1. 每天看一篇econimist 的一篇文章， 收获3-5个主动词汇
2. 浏览AW 版 关于写作的精华帖子

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7月31日

1. scrap But the DPJ will only succeed if it only take a next, bolder step, and scrap the iron triangle of lobbies, political barons and beaureacratics.

But the DPJ will succeed only if its leaders also take the next, bolder step—and scrap the country’s “iron triangle” of lobbies, political barons and bureaucrats.   2. incoherent and unfunded  Its domestic policies are incoherent and unfunded.

3. reassuringly Reassuringly, the DPJ acknowledges the struggle ahead.

4. self-restraint  The second thing  DPJ needs is self-restraint.

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Subject: Succesful Cornell Applicant
Tell us about opinion have you had to defend. How has this affected your belief system? I chuckle to myself every time I think about this. I am perceived as a mild-mannered, intelligent individual until I mention that I am involved in riflery. It is interesting to watch someone’s expression change. It is as if I instantaneously grew a pair of horns and a sharp set of claws. Believe me this gets worst; I am a member of the NRA. I try to tell these folks that I belong to the NRA to fire my rifle. "Oh my God! You fire real guns?
with real bullets?!?" they remark with a perplexed look on their face. Besides having horns and claws, I now possess a tail and leathery wings. This is how it began five years ago. I had played on a soccer team for several years. As I grew older I began having difficultyplaying soccer because of shortness of breath. I was diagnosed as having mild asthma which ended my soccer career and eliminated my participation in most
【1】这种用法很好，当我想说, I could not do something as 的时候，可以换成 which ended ......and eliminated my participation in sth
physical sports. Shortly afterward, during a Boy Scout summer camp, I participated in riflery at their shoo
ting range. This was the first time I had ever touched a firearm. To my amazement, I won the camp’s first place award for marksmanship. I was more than eager when a friend of mine asked me if I would like to join a shooting club 【2】表达自己非常渴望的心情，怎么说呢， I am more than eager to get into the physical chemistry group in our dispartment when I was a sophormore.
. My parents were wary when I asked to join the rifle club. My mother feared
guns, but my father felt there was no problem with trying this sport. Gratefully, he gave me the opportunity totry rifle marksmanship, despite secretly hoping that I would quit. Both of my parents were afraid of what people would think about their son’s involvement with guns. Like my parents a majority of people believe that all firearms are dangerous to our society. All they remember are the hysterical 歇斯底里news releases of street violence and injured chi ldren.I am often asked how many deer I’ve shot. Frankly, I could never bring myself to injure another living creature and neither would most of the compet itors I have met. Yet, I keep finding myself defending the sport from all of the misconceptions that surround it. 【3】Yet, I keep finding myself defending the discipline from misconceptions about its applications and meaningds that surround it .  finding myself Most people have developed a negative
impression of the sport and I have found that these prejudices are difficult
, if not impossible, to rectify. Because of this conflict, I have become an
open minded individual. I express my opinions without reservation, and I hav
e learned to accept opinions and viewpoints contrary to my own. I do not intend to alter what I enjoy because of the ignorance of friends and acquaintances. If people have a negative view of me simply because of the sport I am active in, then they must be so superficial that they cannot see the person who I really am. I am no longer apprehensive of being perceived as a gun toting, trigger happy fanatic, even though I still endeavor to educate my friends and relatives on the beauty of this sport.


小结： 该文应该是申请本科的时候写的吧， tell us the opinion you had to defend and how this affected your belief system. 作者，讲的是自己关于射击的想法，以及如何去维护这种belief. 后来他的结论是，我可以表达我自己的观点，坚持自己的观点，但是不一定要让别人认同。 坚持自己，很帅！ 应用在自己的写作中呢，可以说，我想学的专业虽然很辛苦，很多人都不愿意学，尤其觉得女孩子学不太适合，但是我坚持想学，因为i know its beauty.  说小事，表现自己

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9月2日

1. 语言词汇积累

economist President Ma 's imperfect storm  
it has borne fruit 有了结果 conceivable 可想像的 jeopardize 伤害 revile 辱骂 inopportune 不合适 devast 破坏 plummete 下降 pander : to provide gratifications for others' desires. 迎合 whim 突发的想法 rapprochement 和平 undo 破坏  benficiary 获益者

难句： More likely the government had simply fallen prey to bureaucratic inertia, and to a drastic understimate of how serious the damage had been.  
But it left it vulnerable to any further hints of pandering to China's whims at the expense of its own people.呵呵，这个角度倒是蛮有意思的

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9月3日

1. action words ——转自草木文书写作系列文章 1-2
积累一些动词

Communication Skills

·Negotiated price reductions of up to 30% with key suppliers
·Interpreted financial information from the company’s annual report
·Translated all relevant company information into three different languages

Other words: Advocated, Clarified, Corresponded, Encouraged, Interpreted, Negotiated, Persuaded, Presented, Publicized, Solicited, Spoke, Translated

Creative Skills

·Created an interior design layout for a 500 square foot retail venue
·Introduced a new method of navigating through the A Software Program
·Presented a new research project to the managers at the location

Other words: Acted, Applied, Composed, Created, Established, Founded, Improvised, Introduced, Navigated, Originated, Presented

Data / Financial Skills

·Computed and recorded inventory valuation on a monthly basis
·Documented inventory counts at the end of each working day
·Verified the amount owed to the creditor in the Accounts Payable account

Other words: Adjusted, Allocated, Budgeted, Compared, Computed, Counted, Documented, Estimated, Forecasted, Inventoried, Invested, Predicted, Projected, Quantified, Recorded, Retrieved, Verified

Helping Skills

·Assisted customers with choosing appropriate products
·Trained new employees in the plant through demonstration techniques
·Volunteered in the nursing home every weekend to serve the community

Other words: Aided, Assisted, Built, Demonstrated, Facilitated, Familiarized, Helped, Performed, Represented, Solved, Supported, Trained, Upheld, Volunteered, Worked

Management / Leadership Skills

·Administered a variety of surveys to collect data about the employees
·Implemented a safety communication program to promote safety awareness
·Recommended an alternative solution to one of the company's problems

Other words: Achieved, Administered, Assigned, Attained, Challenged, Coordinated, Decided, Delegated, Established, Executed, Handled, Headed, Implemented, Incorporated, Intervened, Launched, Led, Managed, Mediated, Motivated, Organized, Oversaw, Planned, Prioritized, Recommended, Scheduled, Supervised, United

Efficiency Skills

·Eliminated unnecessary cost of each unit of production
·Maximized profits by 15% during the month of July
·Heightened the level of employee moral through program incentives

Other words: Accelerated, Allocated, Boosted, Centralized, Downsized, Edited, Eliminated, Enhanced, Expanded, Expedited, Heightened, Lessened, Leveraged, Maximized, Merged, Optimized, Outlined, Outsourced, Prevented, Prioritized, Reorganized, Reduced, Revised, Simplified, Standardized, Stream-lined, Synthesized, Systematized, Upgraded

Research Skills

·Examined a new mechanism that may reduce sickness on the campus
·Identified a major defect in a microscopic organism last month
·Surveyed a group of Purdue students with regard to Product A

Other words: Analyzed, Collected, Compared, Controlled, Detected, Diagnosed, Evaluated, Examined, Gathered, Identified, Investigated, Located, Measured, Organized, Reported, Replicated, Researched, Reviewed, Searched, Surveyed, Wrote


Technical Skills

·Assembled an entire computer programming simulation for my CPT course
·Designed a new form of Widget C for a manufacturing facility
·Programmed three new computer programs tailored for a network system

Other words: Analyzed, Assembled, Built, Calculated, Computed, Conducted, Designed, Devised, Engineered, Maintained, Operated, Programmed, Reengineered, Remodeled, Transmitted

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9月4日

论文阅读

1. On longer decadal scales, Keller applys an ocean general circulation model to test whether observed trends in nitrate and apparent oxygen utilization (AOU) in the North Pacific are explicable（可解释的） in terms of the biological pump  and/or ocean circulation.

2. Also clearly evident throughout the SMP is the convergence of data analysis and numerical modeling efforts. 形容词前置 什么什么的结合，可以说，the convergence of

3. benchmark 基准

4. encapsulate 简述

5. With a few exceptions, the treatment of  biology in global biogeochemical models to date has been rather rudimentary.

6.The next step already underway is to combine reasonably sophisticated components for both ecosystem and biogeochemical dynamics within global modeling frameworks.

7. But based on new insights emerging from JGOFS and other recent field studies, a prototype can be envisioned covering those basic processes that govern surface production, export flux, subsurface remineralization, and the (de)coupling of carbon from macronutrients.

8. Mixed-layer and 1-D models, while providing a useful framework or test-bed for exploring ecological processes and implementing biological data assimilation techniques, however, often are developed and evaluated for a single site; the generality of these models and their derived parameter values for basin and global simulations remain open questions.  尽管怎么怎么样，然后，有什么问题的句型

将来，在ps 里面写的时候，谈到自己的计划打算的时候，要不要写， 某个问题，尽管怎么怎么样，但是在更广阔的领域里，可能还存在问题， remain open questions