Issue 新G题号：81 题目：Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. 写作要求：Writea response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Argument 新G题号：39 题目：A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable. 写作要求：Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.作者: iris512 时间: 2011-10-15 14:23
Issue Going to a foreign country to study dates back to the cradle of civilization. Even thousands years ago, the young to travelled far and wide study as apprentices with masters of great craftsman skills; a thousands years ago, Japan and Korea sent their talents to china to study the Confucian classics. As travelling became easier, faster and safer, studying abroad is not privilege anymore. In fact, Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
It would help students improve their foreign language skills. The student is very likely in a situation where his native tongue can’t let him/her get by, so he has to tries his best to make use of what he has learned every day and the feed back is quick as he goes shopping in a market or asking for direction. The best way to learn and master a language is to live in that culture and hang out with the native speakers, and studying abroad provides that opportunity.
Students would have a new perspective on the world too. Being exposed to another culture, students meet people with different ways of thinking and living. Food might be different, when I went to exchange in Korea, the local food is generally spicy, and European students who are not used to spicy food have to find to way to get used to it. Going to foreign country open your eyes for numeric difference, you would not only learn to tolerate that difference, but have a deeper understanding of your own country as well.
Personal growth is a great benefit of studying abroad. To many students, studying abroad is the first time they ever leave home, leave the familiar environment and friends and family. Living in a new country is not easy, especially at first. Students might get lonely, confused, embarrassed, or even hostility sometimes. But once you go through all that, you become a new person with more confidence and resilience. In some sense, studying abroad is a condensed version of someone going to a far away country, encountering a series of adventures, and coming home with glory, maturity and so on.
Studying in a foreign country improves the student’s language skills, gives him/her a new perspective on the world, and expedites his/her personal growth. It is also a career enhancement and a chance of making life-long friendship. No college or university student should ever miss it.
Argument Whether the customers would consume enough seafood to keep a restaurant that specializes in seafood open is needed. Although consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years, it does not show much exactly seafood was consumed, nor the seafood consumption per person. A possible explanation is that people in Bay City used to consume very little seafood so even a 30 percent increase would not make a difference. This also explains why thereare no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood.
It is also worth considering whether a restaurant specializing in seafood will be popular and profitable as new Captain Seafood restaurant expects. As there are no such cases now, the new Captain Seafood restaurant has no reference to look at. And the very fact that no restaurant with seafood as specialty is operating now might suggest that such restaurants could have existed before but did not last as they could not make enough profit.
Seafood does not mean healthful eating necessarily. It still depends on how it is cooked and the other food with it on the dish. Fish and chips certainly can not count as healthy food. So people might not link a seafood specialty restaurant with healthful eating. And the concern is actually from the study but not the people or citizens of the Bay City , and there is no causative relationship between a nationwide study’s concern of healthful eating and customers going to the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood.作者: ppguo 时间: 2011-10-16 11:43
Issue 1. 第三段”Students would have a new perspective on the world too.“ 这是一个很好的point, 但是后面只讨论了food, which is the least important example. 还有很多很好的例子，文化的不同啊，可以学习尊重别的民族。 2. 还有一个点是通过海外学习，促进不同国家和民族的理解，有利于促进世界的和平和国家之间的合作。
Argument: 1. 总的字数有多少啊？ 2. 第一段一般要复述一下题目中的观点，说明题目观点缺乏足够的证据。 3. " Fish and chips certainly can not count as healthy food. " 大部分情况下，大多数人认为鱼是比较健康的食物。 4. 还有几点可以写：海鲜消费增长可能是由于人口增长；全国的调查数据不一定跟地方情况吻合。