ETS考官到底欣赏什么样的作文?我们需要练习什么?我们的作文分数为什么一直提不上去?今天啄木鸟就为同学们分析一下ETS到底希望看到什么样的作文。

　　相对于托福口语来讲，作文其实是比较好提分的一个单项，然而很多学生在备考的过程当中却始终不得其法，作文始终很难提升上来。我们暂且先抛开ETS在独立写作这一部分所设置的评分标准，正如我们在之前的文章中所提到过的，一篇独立写作其实就是一个学生思维过程的体现，不论任何题目，考官都希望能够看到我们的深度分析能力，逻辑推理能力和语言组织能力。

　　托福写作考察的话题相对GRE来讲，不管是从问法还是内容，都趋向于生活化。那么话题简单，不代表我们应该写得也简单，因为写得简单就体现不出我们的深度分析能力或者说是亮点，换言之，独立写作话题作为controversial issues，我们需要分析出它的complexity。那么所谓的逻辑推理能力，我们要符合老美的线性思维特点，从A到B， 中间要一步推一步，从A最终走到B。

　　我们来看一个例子。

　　Topic: Since the world is busy and crowded, people don't need to be polite to others. Agree or disagree?

　　One paragraph from my student:

　　Being polite improves our relationships and thus increases our efficiency. Indeed, we have to pay more cost to deal with a lot of people such as roommates, classmates, workmates and new friends, which seems that if we don't have to treat these relationships politely, it could save more time and energy to focus on something more productive such as our own business, career or habits. However, politeness can be a tool used to show our friendliness and respect to others, and they usually do the same to us, which help us to save our time and energy to ensure things well. If we need help, we couldn't expect that we are yelling someone rudely and at the same time ask him to do us a favor.

　　这一段学生写的观点还是可以的，我们来看一下这样一段还可以怎样去写，从而在内容和语言上更好地体现我们的亮点。

　　Nobody can deny that we can benefit from showing courtesy. On one hand, the competition in modern society has attached cooperation with unprecedented significance since different individual has their distinct ability, specialty, and insightful ideas which can be rather contributing. Indeed, effective cooperation base itself on harmonious relationships with others. If we show others none politeness and ignore their feeling just because we are busy, the negatively influenced ties with others, say our teammates, workmates, will undoubtedly hinder our collaboration which can be destructive for both bosses and employees. Beside, being polite can also save ourselves a lot of unnecessary frictions and displeasure. Image we had a serious quarrel with some one on morning subway just because he or she unconsciously pushed us due to overcrowds. We will be engulfed in an unhappy mood the whole day and this can decline our working passion and efficiency. This is not worthy and can be avoided. In this case, and most cases actually, showing politeness is certainly a more advisable choice.

　　现在大家知道好文章应该具备怎样的特点了吧?!记住一点，好的文章不管从内容还是语言都是精炼的。每一个词，每一句话都有明确的写作目的和写作意义，我们不需要凑字，也不需要模板，因为这些都不能体现你的思维能力和你的亮点，要务实，要通过文章体现你对这个世界的认识和理解，这才是最重要的。