“Your Essay does not have to address the author’s use of allthree components…in order to earn high scores. An Essay that provides strong analysisof fewer but well-chosen points will likely score better than an essay thatprovides little analysis of a long list of points. ”
“精”還指精細,分析性寫作的目的不只是“概括”文章內容(summarizing),而更側重于探討作者寫作的方式和意圖及其同文章主旨目的的相關性。因此,我們需要就剛才所提到的“well-chosen points”展開,細致地分析“how the author develops an argument that is persuasive and powerful”, 分析“whateffect this is likely to have on readers” (OG 178頁)。
所謂“貼標簽法”,是指同學們可以在文中空白處標注Quotation, Fact, Anecdote, Allusion, Appeal to emotions等常見論證元素,幫助自己識別,整理和歸類,但更重要的作用是提醒自己在寫作時作為素材用上,并闡釋這些手法在文中所起的作用。
Thousands of homes were flooded in Poyang county, Jiangxi province, late on Monday after Bintian Reservoir overflowed as torrential rain continued to wreak havoc in South China.
In a 2011 poll of leading academic economists representing a variety of demographic backgrounds and political views, 90 percent agreed with the statement: "A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as 'corporate average fuel economy' requirements for automobiles." (A Carbon Tax Beats a Vacumm Ban, paragraph 8)
At my family's cabin on a Minnesota lake, I knew woods so dark that my hands disappeared before my eyes. I knew night skies in which meteors left smoky trails across sugary spreads of stars. (Let There Be Dark, paragraph 1)