ISSUE82，第一篇作文，求拍，往死拍！

shuaiherowang

ISSUE 82 题目：    Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.    
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.

时间：5个小时写完的第一篇作文。 字数：514。求各位狠拍！谢谢！

Numerous study programs today are popular among the energetic students, few projects, however, have been welcomed as broadly and warmly as study abroad in the college.  But, what is usually chosen by part of the students now is recommended, in the statement, to be required by the college. In view of this compulsory impression, I can hardly support it with whole heart.

No doubt pursuing educational opportunities in a country other than one's own can supply a student with chance to acquire higher and better education. By making available the unavailable learning atmosphere, study abroad can broaden one's horizon, and sometimes can even revolutionize one's understanding of his field. Take my major, robotics, for instance, America and Japan are undisputed leaders in this area. Last year, with great honor, I was invited to visit Tokyo Institute of Technology, a great university with one of the best robotics departments in the world. During the visit, there were so many interesting ideas and advanced devices that I had to take full use of my time to digest the new information. Thanks to the visit, I am now obsessed with robotic technology. So, to some extent, study abroad does have value.  

However, a little digging might uncover quite a number of deficiencies of this statement. Its feasibility, for example, is not clear. Study abroad, logically speaking, needs double preconditions: the willingness of the students, which is the precondition from applicants, and enough positions available in the foreign universities, which is the precondition from recipients. The latter precondition is enough by itself to call this recommendation into question. Suppose all Chinese universities make study abroad compulsory, the result will be that most of them cannot successfully find a recipient college, not to mention pursuing advanced education. When we take into consideration the huge cost of this recommendation, such as transportation fees, insurance, accommodation, its feasibility may get even worse.

Nor is the likely result of this recommendation any clearer, even if the positions are always accessible. It is highly questionable whether study abroad will benefit all students with various majors. Students majoring foreign language will, undoubtedly, be able to benefit a lot from the foreign experience. So do students majoring in high tech area. But, when it comes to the students with "native majors", say Chinese students with major of Chinese Language & Literature, the value of study abroad might be minor. In fact, culture and education disparities, together with their language deficiencies, and their strong motivation to achieve may contribute to their academic stress. Some of them might easily adapt to the new environment. Perhaps. But many of them might consider this stress rather huge. Thus, study abroad, albeit an increasingly popular act, should not be changed into one mandatory requirement in the college.

Given this analysis above, underlying the ripple of "study abroad fever" is the dream of aspirant students to pursue the most advanced education in their field. But one act suitable for certain students might not be universally beneficial. Along with its doubtful feasibility, it should be treated more properly as a voluntary program.

普渡哥

But one act suitable for certain students might not be universally beneficial.


我真的没弄清one act suitable的语法。

写的挺好的，作者思路和英文都不错。

shuaiherowang

多谢普渡哥，这里one act suitable的完整版本应该是one act which is suitable，这里act当做名词用了，确实容易产生歧义，看来以后要注意避免。Anyway，普渡哥真是个热心的好版主啊！

普渡哥

我觉得你写的挺好的

zhouyue0223

我第一篇写的时间还长一些，加油