新航道为您盘点托福写作常见误区

  审题是写作的步，有太多考生只顾着如何写出华丽的辞藻漂亮的句子，却没有看清题目的真正意义，导致在写作中只能拿到较低的分。新航道小编今天要告诉大家的是托福写作常见误区有哪些，同学们如何将高分变得更加achievable。

  同学们写作考了这么多年，大多数出题的形式都烂熟于心，看到题目后觉得很熟悉于是立马提起笔就写，但其实，同学们可能会因看得太快而忽略某个决定题目意思的关键词，例如：
  Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Advertising is the only main cause for people's unhealthy eating habits.
  拿到这个题目，同学们立刻想到，有没有other reasons for unhealthy habits,想出如下三条：
  1.People's tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours;
  2.Sometimes people areeager to lose weight or to keep fit so that they go on"endless diets";
  3.Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally,some consider eating constantly as their most effective stress reliever.综上所述，advertising is not the only cause.
  这个写法看起来非常完备，但是犯了一个不起眼却很严重的错误--题目不是要我们证明it is not the onlycause,而是要我们证明it is not the only main cause.多一个main，意思却完全不同。如果我们只需要证明it is not the only cause,那么找出other causes即上述例子中的写法。但是如果我们要证明it is not the only main cause,就需要证明other causes that we mentioned are also main causes,这就需要在每一段加上一些专门的说明。或者，用更简单的方法证明advertising is not even a cause,直接在每段的末尾加上advertising与该段所论述的unhealthy eating habit无关的论述即可。If it is not acause,how can it be the only main cause?这样一来，就不用通过证明还有其他main cause来反驳了，事实上，证明某种cause是main cause还是有难度的，因此小编推荐同学们用后一种方式进行论述。因此，文章还是disagree,而三段的主题句分别应该是：
  1.People's tight schedules do not allow them to eat at regular hours,and it is obvious that they are too busy to be influenced by advertising;
  2.Sometimes people are eager to lose weight or to keep fit so that they go on"endless diets",and this is more like a result of human nature,the pursuit of beauty,but not advertising;
  3.Bearing heavy burden both physically and mentally,some consider eating constantly as their most effective stress reliever,and it is quite clear that no advertising encourages them to do so.
  再举一个例子：
  Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Colleges and universities should
offer more preparation for student before they start working.
  看到这个题目，很多同学会这样写：Agree.
  1.Students should take more specialized courses in order to be knowledge and skillful enough for their future careers（接着开始论述being knowledge and skillful的重要性）；
  2.Participating ininternships helps students to have a clearer picture of their vocational development in the future（接着开始论述，如果没有实习过，在工作的时候是多么地feel so unprepared;）
  3.Attending more club activities is an effective way to improve social skills,which are crucial for success both inlife and at work（接着开始论述good social skills对职业和生活的帮助）如果不看括号里的内容，仅看主题句，这篇文章是没有任何问题的。然而，括号中的论述从严格意义上来讲，是不能支持“more”这个关键词的。
  同学们在写文章的时候一定要注意，学术论文写作不是句型和辞藻的堆砌，整篇文章一定是一个well-organized system,这个system中很重要的原则就是：
  1.每个中间段的topic sentence是用来支持main idea的；
  2.topic sentence后面的每句话都是用来支持该topic sentence的。在上面的两个例子中，大家会发现个例子有很好的被topic sentence支持；而第二个例子的错误在于topic sentence虽然看起来是支持main idea的，但是论述的内容可能跟关键词“more”无关，从而不能有力的支持topic sentence.这些错误的起因，则是对题干中关键词的忽略。
  以上这些是笔者整理出的托福写作常见误区，大家可以看看自己有没有这样的错误，避免日后再犯。更多资讯，尽在杭州新航道托福频道。