新专八写作

新专八写作 I. 概述 关注教育、文化、社会、科技等方面的新动态 培养国际化的视野、评判性思维能力 (素材来源:TED演讲,Beijing Review,Readers' Digest等) II. 样卷作文题目 With the continued growth of online teaching systems and integration of massive open online courses (MOOCS) into higher education, college study will never be the same for both professors and students. The following are opinions from both sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the opinions from both sides; 2. give your comment. 评分Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. University The University of Washington (UW) in the US isn't shy about the benefits and drawbacks of online education. UW concedes online courses may be more effective for self-directed learners, and students who are not organized and in possession of good time-management skills may struggle. Thus, students should ask themselves whether they are capable of learning independently before signing up for online coursework. UW also mentions online courses may not be able to accurately replicate the vibrant sense of intellectual community that has been at the heart of higher education for ages. This might lead some to miss out on learning and networking opportunities. Students Jasmine Barta of Arizona State University: I take about half my classes online each semesters, and I'll tell you why: Online classes are the secret to a happier, fuller and less stressful college experience. Some students complain about the lack of social interaction and the ease with which they can forget to meet a deadline. But for me these concerns fall flat in the face of the convenience, flexibility and independence online learning offers. Chang Hanyi of Boston University: In order to squeeze in some extra learning without taking the focus away from her major, I enrolled in a pass/fail online reading and writing workshop. The coursework is actually as demanding as my other regular language classes. But what I have learned so far is beyond my expectations. My professor assigns weekly assignments each Monday, and I am required to read, write study blogs and take quizzes regularly. I am also required to respond to comments from my professor and classmates. So, taking online courses doesn't mean zero physical interaction with your instructions. My professor even invited me to face-to-face meetings tour times to add address article structure in my writing assignments. My professor also uploads Video clips to review class content and audio to clarify some thorny points. Despite the hard work, I still enjoy cyber interaction with my professor and classmates. Yang Yang of Pecking University: With MOOCS, we are no longer confined to a classroom at a certain time slot. (flexibility?)Whenever I feel in the mood to study, I take out my laptop or iPad to watch course videos. I am now taking Legal Writing and Research on Coursera, a popular MOOCS platform. Each week, four or six courses videos are released for us students to learn. Apart from the teaching sessions, there are also quizzes to assess whether I have grasped the knowledge well. Quiz scores make up 32 percent of my final score. The great thing about the quizzes is we even have them before each course. This encourages me to finish all the reading and preview the class early. (motivating?) Although MOOCS are improving my learning experiences, this new form of teaching cannot compete with traditional ways of learning in terms of teacher-student interaction.I used to ask questions immediately after class. But with MOOCS, we only have office hours for question and answer sessions. Most of the time, I won't bother to go. III. 解题框架 第一段:概述正反观点(抓关键词和论点句,忽略细节,用自己的话解释) 第二段:过渡、阐述自己的观点(分述理由和例证,利用此前被忽略的细节)第三段:总结重述自己的观点(强调观点的重要性) 90/170/40 头脑风暴...... IV. 参考范文 From the excerpts, we can see that UW holds that not all the students are suitable for online courses, which may not be able to provide the same vibrant sense as the intellectual community. Thus, students should make their decision according to their own situation. Nevertheless, many more students are inclined to use online classes in recent years. Most of them believe that the convenience, flexibility and independence of online courses overwhelm its weak points which are the lacking of interaction with teacher and the possibility of missing out on the deadline. With some disadvantages existing in online courses, however, the benefits still overwhelm its shortcomings. Students may lack direct communication with teachers and their confusion cannot be solved instantly. But I would like to pay more attention to its advantages. First, online courses needn't have face-to-face communication and are not limited by time and place, which facilitate both teachers and students. Secondly, online courses release teachers from repeating the same contents since the video or audio material can be played time and again. With the popularization of the Internet, online courses are gaining more and more popularity. As a new teaching pattern, online courses have become an effective complement to traditional classrooms. And I believe that the largest welfare is its promotion on education of remote areas. For one thing, online education makes it possible for people in remote areas to learn the subjects they are interested in. For another, people have a wider range of choices compared with previous model of study, because they can listen to the best lessons by the first-class teachers in the country, or even in the world. In brief, online courses are playing a more and more important role in modern education. More effective education is certainly to be achieved if traditional teaching patterns and the modern ones like network classrooms can be combined together. V. 练习题 E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but controversy of digital reading versus print reading appears. The following are arguments from supporters of digital reading and their competitors. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the opinions from both sides; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Supportive arguments: Technology codes our minds. Magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives—that is, for people who have been interacting with digital technologies from a very early age. Most of the digital reading that digital natives "practice" is at home on Instagram, chat lines, Facebook and texting. Since they are choosing to read and respond in these mediums, and since they have considerable prior knowledge and expertise in the subject matter, their engagement and comprehension is high. Opposite arguments: Evidence from laboratory experiments, polls and consumer reports indicates that modern screens and e-readers fail to adequately recreate certain tactile experiences of reading on paper that many people miss and, more importantly, prevent people from navigating long texts in an intuitive and satisfying way. In turn, such navigational difficulties may subtly inhibit reading comprehension. Compared with paper, screens may also drain more of our mental resources while we are reading and make it a little harder to remember what we read when we are done. A parallel line of research focuses on people's attitudes toward different kinds of media. Whether they realize it or not, many people approach computers and tablets with a state of mind less conducive to learning than the one they bring to paper.