Unit 8 Section A-Sandy Wong

写作实践 Directions: Have a look at an outline and sample paragraph that has been written in the same text structure as you have analyzed.
Argument: Youngsters are likely to become destructive forces of resistance if our education fails its purpose. Supporting facts: ● most of the criminals today: 14- to 24year-olds ● no sense of responsibility ● value everything materially, lay their hands on easy money
The essay ends up with an appeal to the educators to answer students’ cries for career education and ensure that students have the education that they will wish for later in life.
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Argument: The point(s) to be argued over in the following
Facts: The facts cited here to suppore has been a sad tendency among youngsters in valuing material things more and more. Supporting facts: ● most popular subjects: accounting, computer programming, business ● favorite jobs: sales representing, advertisement designing, international business, etc. ● fewer people for teaching or social services
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Interest in teaching, social service and the humanities is at a low, along with ethnic and women’s studies. On the other hand, enrollment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up. (Fact 2)
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It is never too late to take environmental measures. In our daily life，things of ， protecting the environment are more than we can list, like: no littering, water saving, traveling by bus instead of by car, using plastic chopsticks instead of instant wooden ones and so on. Still, we can do our least yet to protect our environment most in work or social place as packing
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Structure Analysis
Part I (Para.1-8) According to a survey, the youth today tend to be more consumeristic and less idealistic than before. Part II (Para.9-18) The author shows how to deal with the problem presented previously. Part III (Para.19)
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Example: Paras. 4–8
According to the survey based on responses from over 188,000 students, today’s college beginners are “more consumeristic and less idealistic” than at any time in the 17 years of the poll.
products with recyclable material, turning off electric applicants when leaving, applying solar energy etc. What’s more, in carrying out population control and persuading more people to value resources, we are taking environmental measures.
Writing Assignment Directions: Write a paragraph on one of the following topics which starts with an argument to be supported by facts. One topic has been given a detailed outline that you can follow.
[Sample Composition] Youngsters are likely to become destructive forces of resistance if our education fails its purpose. (Argument) People are shocked to find that most of the criminals today are 14- to 24-year-olds. They lack moral sense and sense of responsibility to their society and to people in general. They value everything in terms of money and will do whatever they can to lay their hands on easy money. (Facts)
Unit 8 Section A There’s a Lot More to Life than a Job
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Title Analysis and Main Idea Structure Analysis General Understanding Detailed Study Translation Summary
More topics: ● It is never too late to take environmental measures. ● Never let yourself be overwhelmed by stress.
[参考范文 参考范文1] 参考范文 There has been a sad tendency among youngsters in valuing material things more and more. For college students, the most popular subjects that they prefer to choose are accounting, computer programming, business, etc. When they graduate from colleges, the jobs they prefer to choose are sales representative, advertisement designing, international business, etc. Fewer and fewer people are choosing teaching or social services as their life career.
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That’s no surprise either. A friend of mine (a sales representative for a chemical company) was making twice the salary of college instructors during her first year on the job—even before she completed her twoyear associate degree. “I’ll tell them what they can do with their music, history, literature, etc.,” she was fond of saying. And that was four years ago; I tremble to think what she’s earning now. (Fact 3)
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Title Analysis & Main Idea
Can you guess what the text is about?
How to lead our education mode Main point: We should advocate to life-orientation instead of a broader education. job-orientation?