英语毕业论文的写作基础（经典20篇）

一、引出开头

1. It is well-known to us that…(我们都知道……)==As far as my knowledge is concerned...就我所知……)

2.Recently the problem of… has been brought into focus. ==Nowadays there is a growing concern over …(最近……问题引起了关注)

3.Nowadays(overpopulation)has become a problem we have to face.(现今，人口过剩已成为我们不得不面对的问题)

4.Internet has been playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life. It has brought a lot of benefits but has created some serious problems as well.(互联网已在我们的生活扮演着越来越重要的角色，它给我们带来了许多好处但也产生了一些严重的问题)

5.With the rapid development of science and technology, more and more people believe that…(随着科技的迅速发展，越来越多的人认为……)

6.It is a common belief that…==It is commonly believed that…(人们一般认为……)

7.A lot of people seem to think that…(很多人似乎认为……)

8.It is universally acknowledged that +句子(全世界都知道……)

二、表达不同观点

1.Peoples views on…vary from person to person. Some hold that…However, others believe that…(人们对……的观点因人而异，有些人认为……然而其他人却认为……)

2.People may have different opinions on…(人们对……可能会持有不同见解)

3.Attitudes towards (drugs)vary from person to person.==Different people hold different attitudes towards(failure)(人们对待吸毒的态度因人而异)

4：There are different opinions among people as to…(对于……人们的观点大不相同)

三、表示结尾

1.In short, it can be said that…(总之，他的意思是……)

2.From what has been mentioned above, we can come to the conclusion that…(从上面提到的，我们可以得出结论……)

3.Taking all these factors into consideration, we naturally/reasonably come to the conclusion that…(把所有的这些因素加以考虑，我们自然可以得出结论……)

4.Hence/Therefore, wed better come to the conclusion that…(因此，我们最好的出这样的结论……)

5：There is no doubt that (job-hopping)has its drawbacks as well as merits.(毫无疑问，跳槽有优点也有缺点)

6.All in all, we cannot live without…, but at the same time we must try to find out new ways to cope with the problems that would arise.(总之，我们没有……无法生活，但同时我们必须寻求新的解决办法来面对可能出现的新问题)

四、提出建议

1.It is high time that we put an end to the (trend).(该是我们停止这一趋势的时候了)

2.There is no doubt that enough concern must be paid to the problem of…(毫无疑问，对……问题应予以足够重视)

3.Obviously, if we want to do something … it is essential that…(显然，如果我们想要做么事，很重要的是……)

4.Only in this way can we …(只有这样，我们才能……)

5.Spare no effort to + V (不遗余力的)

五、预示后果

1.Obviously, if we dont control the problem, the chances are that…will lead us in danger.(很明显，如果我们不能控制这一问题，很有可能我们会陷入危险)

2.No doubt, unless we take effective measures, it is very likely that …(毫无疑问，除非我们采取有效措施，否则我们很可能会……)

3.It is urgent that immediate measures should be taken to stop the situation(很紧迫的是应立即采取措施阻止这一事态的发展)

六、表示论证

1.From my point of view, it is more reasonable to support the first opinion rather than the second.(在我看来，支持第一种观点比第二种更有道理)

2.I cannot entirely agree with the idea that…(我无法完全同意这一观点)

3.As far as I am concerned/In my opinion, ...(就我来说……)

4.I sincerely believe that…==I am greatly convinced (that)子句。(我真诚地相信……)

5.Finally， to speak frankly， there is also a more practical reason why …(最后，坦率地说，还有另外一个实际的原因……)

七、给出原因

1.The reason why + 句子 ...is that + 句子(……的原因是……)

2：This phenomenon exists for a number of reasons .First, ... , Second, ... ,Third, ... . 这一现象存在有很多原因的，第一……第二……第三…

3.For one thing, ... For another thing, ... ==On the one hand, ... On the other hand…一方面……另一方面……

4.I quite agree with the statement that…The reasons are chiefly as follows. 我十分赞同这一论述，即……其主要原因如下。

八、列出解决办法和批判错误观点做法

1.The best way to solve the troubles is… 解决这些麻烦的最好办法是……

2.As far as something is concerned,…就某事而言，……

3.It is obvious that…很显然……

4.It may be true that…but it doesnt mean that…可能……是对的，但这并不意味着……

5.It is natural to believe that…but we shouldnt ignore that…认为……是自然的，但我们不应忽视……

6.There is no evidence to suggest that…没有证据表明……

九、表示好处和坏处

1.It has the following advantages.它有如下优势

2.It is beneficial/harmful to us.==It is of great benefit/harm to us.它对我们有益处

3It has more disadvantages than advantage.他有很多不足之处

十、表示重要、方便、可能

1.It is important(necessary/difficult/convenient/possible)for sb to do sth.对于某人做……是……

2.It plays an important role in our life.

十一、采取措施

1.We should take some effective measures.我们应该采取有效措施

2.We should try our best to overcome/conquer the difficulties.我们应该尽最大努力去克服困难

3.We should do our utmost in doing sth.我们应该尽力去做……

4.We should solve the problems that we are confronted/faced with.我们应该解决我们面临的困难。

十二、显示变化

1.Some changes have taken place in the past five years.过去五年发生了很多变化2.Great changes will certainly be produced in the international communications.在国际交流中理所当然会发生很多大的变化3.It has increased/decreased from…to…他已经从……增加/减少到……

4.The output of July in this factory increased by 15%.这个工厂7月份产量以增加了15%

十三、表明事实现状

1.We cannot ignore the fact that…我们不能忽略这个事实……

2.No one can deny the fact that…没人能否认这个事实……

3.This is a phenomenon that many people are interested in. 4：be closely related to ~~ (与……息息相关)

十四、进行比较

1.Compared with A, B……与A比较，B…

2.I prefer to read rather than watch TV.

十五、常用英语谚语

1.Actions speak louder than words.事实胜于雄辩

2.All is not gold that glitters.发光的未必都是金子

3.All roads lead to Rome.条条大路通罗马

4.A good beginning is half done.良好的开端是成功的一半

5.Every advantage has its disadvantage有利必有弊

6.A miss is as good as a mile.失之毫厘，差之千里

7.Failure is the mother of success.失败是成功之母

8.Industry is the parent of success.勤奋是成功之母

9.It is never too old to learn.活到老，学到老

10.Knowledge is power.知识就是力量

11.Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.世上无难事，只怕有心人

【导语】英语写作是中考中检测学生语言应用能力的最重要部分。提高中考写作水平，需要有效的训练。下面关于英语作文的写作方法，一起来阅读下文吧!

学生写作时，如果语句平平，只选用一些普通的、直截了当的词，那么，这样写出来的文章根本没有可阅读行，就像是一碗没有油盐酱醋面条一样，让人提不起一点精神和看下去的欲望，呆板、单调，没有可读性。如果一篇文章要让读者有可读性、有深度，同学们更应该掌握一些高级点词和语句来装饰你的文章，突出这篇文章的彩头，使文章增添文采，给读者以不一样的感受。具体方法可以参照下面的语句：

1. 画龙点睛，一篇文章的开头很重要。

在通常情况下，英语句子的排列方式为“主语+谓语+宾语”，即主语一般都会在谓语前面。但若根据情况适当改变句子的开头方式，比如在文章的开始的时候写一些倒状语句或以状语为起始语句的开头，这样子的文章更具表现力和感染力。如：

(1) There stands an old temple at the top of the hill.

→ At the top of the hill there stands an old temple.

在小山顶上有一座古庙。

(2) You can do it well only in this way.

→ Only in this way can you do it well.

只有这样你才能把它做好。

(3) A young woman sat by the window.

→ By the window sat a young woman.

窗户边坐着一个年轻妇女。

2. 避免重复使用同一词语

为了使表达更生动，更富表现力，同学们在写作时应尽量避免重复使用同一词语来表示同一意思，尤其是一些老生常谈的词语。如有的同学一看到“喜欢”二字，就会立刻想起like，事实上，英语中表示类似意思的词和短语很多，如 love, enjoy, prefer, appreciate, be fond of, care for等。如：

I like reading while my brother likes watching television.

→ I like reading while my brother enjoys watching television.

我喜欢看书，而我的兄弟却喜欢看电视。

3. 合理使用省略句

合理恰当地使用省略句，不仅可以使文章精练、简洁，而且会使文章更具文采和可读性。如：

(1) He may be busy. If he’s busy, I’ll call later. If he is not busy, can I see him now?

→ He may be busy. If so, I’ll call later. If not, can I see him now?

他可能很忙，要是这样，我以后再来拜访。要是不忙，我现在可以见他吗?

(2) If the weather is fine, we’ll go. If it is not fine, we’ll not go.

→ If the weather is fine, we’ll go. If not, not.

如果天气好，我们就去；如果天气不好，我们就不去了。

(3) She could have applied for that job, but she didn’t do so.

→ She could have applied for that job, but she didn’t.

她本可申请这份工作的，但她没有。

4. 适当运用非谓语结构

非谓语结构通常被认为是一种高级结构，适当运用非谓语结构，会给人一种熟练驾驭语言的印象。如：

(1) When he heard the news, they all jumped for joy.

→ Hearing the news, they all jumped for joy.

听了这消息他们都高兴得跳了起来。

(2) As I didn’t know her address, I wasn’t able to get in touch with her.

→ Not knowing her address, I wasn’t able to get in touch with her.

由于不知道她的地址，我没法和她联系。

(3) As he was born into a peasant family, he had only two years of schooling.

→ Born into a peasant family, he had only two years of schooling.

他出生农民家庭，只上过两年学。

5. 结合使用长句与短句

在英语写作中，过多地使用长句或过多地使用短句都不好。正确的做法是，根据实际情况在文章中交替使用长句与短语，使文章显得错落有致，这样不仅使文章在形式上增加美感，而且使文章读起来铿锵有力。如：

At noon we had a picnic lunch in the sunshine. Then we had a short rest. Then we began to play happily. We sang and danced. Some told stories. Some played chess.

→ At noon we had a picnic lunch in the sunshine. After a short rest, we had great fun singing and dancing, telling jokes and playing chess.

中午我们晒着太阳吃野餐。休息一会儿后，我们唱的唱歌，跳的跳舞，还有的讲笑话、下棋，大家玩得很开心。

6. 适当使用短语代替单词

(1) He has decided to be a teacher when he grows up.

→ He has made up his mind to be a teacher when he grows up.

他已决定长大了当老师。

(2) He doesnt like music.

→ He doesnt care much for music.

他不大喜欢音乐。

(3) He told me that the question was now under discussion.

→ He told me that the question was now being discussed.

他告诉我问题现正正在讨论中。

7. 恰当套用某些固定表达

(1) He was very tired. He couldn’t walk any farther.

→ He was too tired to walk any farther.

他太累了，不能再往前走了。

(2) The film was very interesting. Both the teachers and the students liked it.

→ The film was so interesting that both the teachers and the students liked it.

这电影很有趣，学生和老师都很喜欢。

(3) Your son is old. He can look after himself now.

→ Your son is old enough to look after himself now.

你的儿子已经长大，可以自己照顾自己了。

8. 尽量使句子带点“洋味”

(1) Dont worry. Be bold and try it, and youll learn it soon.

→Dont worry. Just go for it, and youll get it soon.

别担心，大胆试一试，你很快就会学会的。

(2) Thank you for playing with us.

→Thank you for sharing the time with us.

谢谢你陪我玩。

9. 综合使用各类所谓的“高级”结构

(1) Now everyone knows the news. I think Jim must have let it out.

→ Now everyone knows the news. I think it must have been Jim who has let it out.

现在人人都知道这消息了，我想一定是吉姆把它泄露出去的。

(2) We had to stand there to catch the offender.

→ What we had to do was (to) stand there, trying to catch the offender.

我们所能做的只是站在那儿，设法抓住违章者。

(3) If her pronunciation is not better than her teacher’s, it is at least as good as her teacher’s.

→ Her pronunciation is as good as, if not better than, her teacher’s.

如果她的语音不比她的老师好的话，至少也不会比她老师的差。

10. 适当使用名言警句点缀

在写作时根据实际情况恰当地用上一两句名言警句来点缀文章，不仅使文章显得有深度、有智慧，而且会让文章在评分中上一个“得分档次”。如：

(1) As the proverb says, “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Though you fail this time, you needn’t lose heart. As long as you work hard and stick to your dream, you will succeed one day.

(2) There is a proverb goes like this “Life isn’t a bed of roses.” It is ture that it is likely for everyone to meet problems and difficulties in life.

(3) In the modern world, more and more people live alone, which is not so good for our life. It is better for us to make more friends and enjoy friendship. Just as a proverb says, “A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.”

一、单项选择题

(1)先易后难：一些考题的答案比较容易选定，可以先从这些考题入手。平时练习时，应以基础为主，主要精力不应放在偏题、怪题上。

(2)分析考查意图、运用相关知识：应学会分析出题者考查的意图，明确相关题的测试点是什么，然后运用所学知识，进行分析、判断，再进行选择。

(3)利用暗示进行选择：注意考题涉及的语境范围。平时应注重对习惯用语表达、惯用法和中英文化差别等方面知识的积累。

(4)运用排除法：可采取语言排除、逻辑排除、语法排除或选择排除等方法。先排除较容易、较明显的错误选项，缩小范围，而后对剩余的选项进行比较分析，最后确定答案。

二、完形填空题

1、搭配判断法。

根据对以往试题的分析，搭配型考题在完形填空题中占的比例最高。搭配型问题主要测试常见搭配的熟练程度，比如说哪些词要搭配不定式、动名词或某种从句，哪些词必须与某个介词搭配。我们在复习时要特别注意短语动词和介词的固定搭配。

2、结构判断法。

结构型问题主要包括句型、句式、连接词的选择等，解题时要运用句法知识，把握关键词，从而做出迅速正确的判断。完形填空题中有很多是利用语法的正确性与逻辑的排斥性间的矛盾来设计的。因此考生应结合上下文的合理性及意义关系的逻辑性选择最佳答案。完形填空中常考的逻辑关系主要有：

(1)转折、让步关系：这种关系表明后一种观点或事实与前一种观点或事实相比有些出乎意料。

常见的表示转折、让步的词或词组有：but，still，yet，however，though，although，no matter，in spite of，anyway，even if等。

(2)因果关系：

表示原因的连词或词组有：because (of )，due to，owing to，thanks to，since，for，as等。

表示结果的词或词组有：so，therefore，then，as a result，in consequence，consequently，thus等。

(3)递进、补充关系：这种关系表示对前一事实或观点做进一步阐述。

常用的词、词组有：moreover，likewise，besides，in addition，also，too，not only…but also，apart from，what‘s more 等。

(4)对比、比较关系：对比观点或事物间的差异性，比较观点或事物间的同一性。

表示对比的词或词组有：in contrast，by contrast，on the contrary，conversely，unlike，oppositely 等。表示比较的词或词组有：like，in comparison，compare…with，as，just as等。

3、词义判断法。

词汇型问题也是完形填空的一个考点，主要测试考生在段落语篇中把握语义连贯性的能力，提供选择的词可能是近义词、近形词也可能是随意拼凑的四个选项，遇到这类题，既要联系上下文，又要具有扎实的词汇基础，有时还须根据自己的文化背景知识做出判断、选择答案。

三、阅读理解

在做阅读理解题时，除了掌握前面介绍的基本题型、基本法则外，还要进行有意识的阅读训练。提高阅读能力的训练主要可以从下面几个方面入手：词汇、方法、侧重点。

1、词汇：猜词的技巧。

在阅读过程中，不可避免地会碰到不认识的单词，考试中又不允许查词典，有些不认识的单词对文章的理解影响不大，可以忽略。但有些不认识的单词则会影响阅读者对文章理解的正确性。在这种情况下，必需猜测词的含义，这就需要利用猜词的技巧了。

最基本的猜词技巧有两种：一是根据构词法的规则猜，构词法的规则在前面的章节中已有介绍，这里就不重复了;另一种猜词的技巧是根据上下文的描述、解释、列举、比较等，运用已有的知识，分析、推断该词的含义。常用的猜词技巧可归纳为以下几种：

(1)利用词根、词缀构词法推测词义。通过构词法推测词义是最常用的方法之一。

(2)分析文中对该词的直接定义推测词义。

作者在行文中有时不得不使用某些难词、偏词，为使读者理解，作者常常会在文章中直接解释该词语。作者或通过同位语，或使用定语从句加以阐明，或用冒号、破折号、括号给出，或用语篇标志词引出，这类语篇标志词有：that is (to say); e.g.;oor，in other words;to put it in another way等。如：

She is bilingual.In other words，she speaks English and French equally well.(bilingual：会说两种语言的)。

(3)分析文中对该词的近义复述推测词义。

同一短文中前后两个句子、短语或单词通常有互释作用，可以从上下文的复述中获取与某一单词或短语相关的信息以猜测词义。如：

It is difficult t

o list all of my fathe‘s attributes because he has so many different talents and abilities.(attribute：特质;才能)

(4)分析文中对该词的对比和并列表述推测词义。

利用上下文中的对比或并列表述猜测词义是最常用、最可靠的方法。有不少句子会在上下文中给出某个生词(尤其是偏词、难词)的同义词或反义词，运用对比或并列表达对这些生词加以推测。通过了解词与词之间的连接关系，特别是一些语篇标志词，如：however;on the other hand;nevertheless等，我们不难推断这些生词的词义。如：

If you agree，write “yes”;if you dissent，write “no”。(dissent：不同意）

Where possible, reduce the use of "which," "who" "that" "whom" "whether... or not" etc.

少用关系代词

学会运用关系代词是你学习英文过程中的一个重要的阶段。学会少用它们则表明你取得了更大的进步。在校对你的作品时，仔细检查一下所有的which’s, who’s that’s和whom’s是否必要。删除不必要的关系代词会使你的文章更精彩。

Example:

Unnecessary: It is a truth that is universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

(用两个 that’s，读起来很别扭)

Better: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

-- Jane Austin

注：被动语态修饰的名词通常不须用关系代词。

Unnecessary: In 1970 India dedicated a nuclear power plant near Bombay, which was built with American assistance.

Improved: In 1970 India dedicated a nuclear power plant near Bombay, built with American assistance.

Unnecessary: During this period, Churchill spoke for a nation which was undivided and curiously happy, as it has never been in my lifetime, before or since.

Improved: During this period, Churchill spoke for a nation undivided and curiously happy, as it has never been in my lifetime, before or since.

Unnecessary: Justice theories have a long tradition, which goes back to Plato and Aristotle in the 5th century B.C.

Improved: Justice theories have a long tradition, going back to Plato and Aristotle in the 5th century B.C.

Unnecessary: Shirley Temple’s father blew nearly the entire $3 million that she made by tap dancing which made her famous in the movies.

Improved: Shirley Temple’s father blew nearly the entire $3 million she made tap dancing her way to fame in the movies.

Unnecessary: We told them they were the victims who deserved sympathy the most.

Improved: We told them they were the victims, most deserving of sympathy.

Unnecessary: Only a person who is oblivious* to the facts of modern life would doubt the need of vocational education today.

Better: Only a person oblivious to the facts of modern life would doubt the need of vocational education today.

Unnecessary: Not everyone in North America likes the taste of green tea, whether it contains caffeine or not.

Better: With or without caffeine, not everyone in North America likes the taste of green tea.

Unnecessary: Usually the Washington family married people who were socially better off than themselves, but the second marriage of George’s father was an exception.

Better: Usually the Washingtons married their social betters, but the second marriage of George’s father was an exception.

Unnecessary: In some instances, a letter can take ten days by air and six to eight weeks by ship to reach the person to whom the letter is addressed.

Better: In some instances, a letter can take ten days by air and six to eight weeks by ship to reach its intended receiver.

下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言，考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章，然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。

对于素材中用黑体字的部分，特别建议你熟读，背诵，因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白，表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累，潜移默化。从某种意义上说，提高英语写作能力无捷径可走，你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关，没有任何人能代替你过。

因此，建议你下点苦功夫，把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况，并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心：你可以这个星期背，下个星期忘。这没有关系，相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你会惊讶的发现：I can think in English now！

1.?????? Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.

2. Damaging Research

A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.

3. Education and Citizenship

An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.

Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.

Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.

Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.

4. The Teacher’s Role

Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.

Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.

5. Education Philosophy

For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.

In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.

This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.

6. Student Life

To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.

Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.

Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)

What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.

Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.

7. Adult Education

After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”

So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.

8. Moral Relativism in American

Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.

Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.

In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”

Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.

In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”

The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.

The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.

At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.

The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.

But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.

There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.

9. Schools Should Teach Values

People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”

There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.

As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”

This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.

We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.

What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.

These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.

After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.

10. College Pressures

Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.

What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.

“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”

Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.

It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.

The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.

Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.

Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.

Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.

I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.

“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.

“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”

“Then why are you going?”

“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”

Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”

But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.

I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.

Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.

“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”

Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.

Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.

“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”

Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.

To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.

If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.

Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.

“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”

“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”

I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.

Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.

This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.

They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.

If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.

I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.

I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.

11. To Err Is Wrong

In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?

Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.

Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:

Right over 90% of the time = “A”

Right over 80% of the time = “B~”

Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.

From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.

Playing It Safe

With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.

I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.

Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.

Different Logic

From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.

Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.

Errors as Stepping Stones

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.

The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.

Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.

Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.

[英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分

一、追根溯源——什么是策论文

所谓策论文，简言之即文章的正文部分以提对策为主。近几年的国考和省考文章命题中都有所涉猎，且题干或要求中已限定只能写策论文。例如：

[2013年国考地市]请以“让……大放异彩”为题，写一篇内容充实的文章。

要求：1.用恰当的文字替换“让……大放异彩”中的省略号部分，是指构成一个完整具体的文章标题;2.主题应与“给定资料”相关，但素材不必拘泥于“给定资料”要结合生活中的具体感受，切忌空谈政策;3.观点鲜明，结构完整，语言流畅;4.字数800-1000字。

[2010年广东省考]针对材料中所反应的问题(仅限所给材料)，以“进一步加强农民工工作”为题，写一篇800字左右的策论文章。

要求：措施全面，结构完整，条理清晰，行文流畅，针对性强，具有可操作性。

二、明确规范——策论文的文章格式

作为申论的文章写作，行文规范是文章的基本要求，也是体现政府机关工作的基本特点。对于策论文写作理应体现以下之规范：

P1：开头 概括材料，分析主题、提出总论点

P2：分论点一(段首为对策性分论点)

P3：分论点二(段首为对策性分论点)

P4：分论点三(段首为对策性分论点)

P5：结尾 总结升华

从此规范可见，策论文的基本特点在于文章主体段落必须以对策加以呈现，望考生能谨记。

三、避免误区——策论文的注意事项

当前很多考生在写策论文的过程中有以下两个误区:

误区一：策论文即文章只能写对策，不能有分析。这是很多考生在文章写作常犯的一个错误，申论文章的写作在于说理，说理势必有理有据，因此自当有分析有对策，分析愈透彻，方显对策之针对性。

误区二：文章主体段落有对策即为策论文。申论文章角度的区分不在于文章篇幅的大小，对策多即为策论文，这是常见的误解。而根本性的判定文章是否为策论文在于段旨句是否为对策。

四、学以致用——策论文分论点来源

古语有云“他山之石可以攻玉”，不管是作为考生平时的知识积累，或是来自于材料中主题所涉及的对策都可成为文章写作的分论点。

以2013年国考地市文章写作为例，材料中谈到了很多文化发展的对策，例：发展文化人才、搭建文化阵地、扶持本国文化事业、重视传统文化教育，都可成为本文写作的分论点，考生可根据对策与主题之间的关系以及对策之间的密切程度酌情筛选，确定分论点。

同时，考生还可根据平时的积累，对于文化发展的对策也可以结合自身，从实际中出发，例如，扎根群众，提高文化自觉性;认真学习，提升文化自信;抵制西化，捍卫文化尊严等等，从这些方面进行论述，进而打造“人无我有，人有我优”的文章写作亮点。

论文的框架可以简明扼要地画出框图，看起来逻辑清楚，在一个表达的系统中，小编收集了称职的论文写作技巧，欢迎阅读。

什么是好的论文呢?怎么写论文?介绍一点点，供您参考哦。

一、好论文的感觉

1、 您的论文可以用一句话来表达，这一句话可以长一点，但是表达很清楚;我们可以把这话叫做中心句。

2、 论文的框架(纲要)可以很快地表达出来，框架就是中心句的展开;

3、 论文的框架可以简明扼要地画出框图，看起来逻辑清楚，在一个表达的系统中;

4、 根据论文的框架(纲要);可以展开成整篇文章;

5、 好象你在画画，一开始就考虑好整篇文章的意旨、布局、重点、点睛处，这样争取一次性就把文章写好;

6、 写的文章是有价值的，能给读者带来受用;文章写起来感觉是在介绍经验;一边写文章一边有自豪感;

7、 科技技术类的选题有特别的角度，一般能套在“新、难、重、特”里面;

8、 写之前用至少看过3篇相近选题的文献;最好是5至10篇;

9、 行文格式标准，(只要去看文献就知道自己有哪些差距)。

二、怎么写好论文

1、写论文的准备工作

考虑自己评职称时的方向;

自己的工作领域;

可以取材的工程项目、论文相关的案例、工作经验、经历;

初步选几个题目;

根据初选的题目查询文献;

对比看哪个论文方向写起来在价值、表达方便、与自己结合上更合适。

2、确定题目

前面所说的在于选择大的选题方向，到这里的时候，要具体考虑细的题目、重点、聚焦点，题目能不能用一句话表达出来，这时候就要考虑清楚，这一句话可以很长，但是一句话出来的东西一定是逻辑很清晰的。往往的结构是“XX的XX的XX”这样表达的时候，文章的领域、着眼点、新颖点往往就被表达出来了。

3、快速撰写论文

因为能够用一句话一表达题目或者中心，所以写论文的时候就会比较快。

快速的写法是：

先根据那一句话，展开纲要，大概是二级目录就差不多了，就是1.1这样的级别;

之后，根据二级目录，可以很快地组织内容。

4、要点突出

这个时候再来比较内容与题目是对应性怎么样?是一致吗?要对题目做出轻微的调整，还是对内容做出轻微的调整?

哪一个部分是重点，哪个部分是重点的重点?文章的篇幅够了没有，是太多了，还是太少了?要不要修，修哪里?

这里的原则就是突出要点，如同画家画树，冬天时，有枝干而无叶，仍然是树，反过来就不行的。

5、整理

根据突出重点的原则，在保证主干清楚的情况下，进行增减。

根据国际单位制，对单位进行修改;

根据行文格式，对字体、大小、图片、参考文献等进行修改;

对摘要和关键词进行设定。

6、润色

对文章的创新点、系统性表述、逻辑清晰、文章的实用价值、可信度再行润色;

对语句的流利进行润色，最简单的办法，就是从头到尾出声地读一遍下来，边读边改，一定会好很多。

三、重点强调

1、选题

至关重要。

职称论文是要评职称用的，要和自己的所学专业、所从事工作有相关性，特别是与你所将要评的职称专业有较大的相关性。这点对于学历专业、工作经历多、跨专业评职称的人要特别注意。

2、表达系统性和逻辑性

系统性的表达。就是说一个东西的时候，你要把它说清楚，说全面。比如，你跟人家介绍自家的房子，你就要把厅、主卧、客户、书房、饭厅、、卫生间、阳台都说到，这样就叫系统。如果觉得内容太大，就光说客厅，那就要把客厅的四面、上下、中间都有什么说清楚;如果还嫌太大，光说吊顶，就把凡是光于吊项的风格、材料、做工、等等全部说清楚。这就叫做系统性。系统性的反面就是缺漏。

逻辑性的表达。就是说一个东西的时候，要先主后次，先上后下，等等，有一个符合那个东西的规律的表达。比如说家庭的成员，从老的到少的，从男的到女的，从直系的说到旁系的，一代说完再说一代，必要时配要图表来辅助，这就是逻辑性的表达。逻辑性的反面就是乱。

3、规范性

论文只是一种体裁，一种风格，一种方式，有着它区别于其它体裁的规定套路，这就是规范性。比如：摘要要怎么写、关键词要怎么设，参考文献是怎么来表达，标点、格式、单位等要怎么做，这是规范性。

Some people believe (argue, recognize, think) that 观点1. But other people take an opposite side. They firmly believe that 观点2. As for me, I agree to the former/latter idea.

There are a dozen of reasons behind my belief. First of all, 论据1. More importantly, 论据2. Most important of all, 论据3.

In summary, 总结观点. As a college student, I am supposed to 表决心. 或 From above, we can predict that 预测.

在多年的雅思教学中，我发现学生在实际考试中面临着不同的写作障碍，影响了考试成绩，雅思英语考试中应该如何克服写作障碍。归纳起来大致有以下几个方面：

一、真情流露，无从下笔

有的考生在考试时见到作文题，顿感思路塞车，好像有许多话要说，但又不知究竟应从那里写起。明智的做法是“投其所好、尽情发挥。”考生不妨把作文的要求量化到每一个段落，一篇250词左右的作文一般不会超过15句话，把这15句话根据题目要求分配到各段中去，每一段大概只说那么几句话，事实上往往是说得越多错误越多。因此，每句话紧扣提纲，见好就收,这才是最稳妥的对策。

二、心里明白，难以表达

在考场上有的考生题目看得懂，提纲也明白，就是不知道该说什么，头脑里一片空白。这是在雅思写作考试中的一种常见的现象，针对这一现象，最有效的办法就是要善于联想到一些具体的事实，具体的例证和具体的现象。事实上，雅思的作文题目一定是一个具有社会普遍型话题，其目的是让不同教育背景的考生都有话可说。因此，考生一定能就题目联想起具体细小的事情再形成观点。把看得见摸得着的事物带来的思考变成作文里的实质内容，这不失为一种很好的策略。

因此，当头脑出现空白时，应该由具体细小的、琐碎的、微不足道的事物所引发的思考形成观点，再进行论述。这种定式思维的形成需要多下功夫多练习。

三、一味追求标新立异，导致无从下笔

考试时通常发现有的考生聚精会神的坐在那里冥思苦想，非要想出一个与众不同的观点。陷入这种境地的考生，显然犯了一个根本性的错误，参考时间为40分钟的作文，一般应在35分钟之内完成,再用几分钟的时间检查语言错误。可有的考生十几分钟一句话都写不了，就是因为他太进入角色了，这是考试中一个很大的误区。

考作文的目的纯粹是通过这一命题形式，考查考生的英语水平如何，雅思英语《雅思英语考试中应该如何克服写作障碍》。命题人关注的是书面表达能力，而不是看一个人有没有内容，思想有没有深度，所以“一味追求标新立异”是没有必要的。

四、构思、写作不统一，落实有困难

实事求是的讲，要求考生完全运用英语思维来写作文是不现实的。很多考生在实际写作过程中，脑子里想的是中文句子，然后再把中文句子译成英文。因此采用“得其意，忘其形”的方法，忘掉中文的语法结构，句法形式则可能要整个地打乱，“钻进去，跳出来”。所谓“钻进去”就是要看意思是否到位了，“跳出来”就是要忘记中文的语言形式。实际上把英文译成中文，关键是要在转换中把意思表达出来。

针对构思、写作不统一，落实有困难情况。必须摒弃翻译中追求一一对应的关系，并机械地把中文译成英文的方法，应该把中文句子结构彻底地忘记，然后用比较简单的“万能”英语表达。平时不妨做一做这样的练习，通过阅读不认识词条的英文注解，然后试着把单词译成中文词，再去对照英汉词典的汉语释义，慢慢地就会开始领会用英语表达的门道了。

五、被动心态压抑新构思

尽管雅思考试作文为规定式命题，但考生仍可积极主动地发挥。其主动性在于采取回避的策略，表达上采取迂回的方式，即运用不很复杂的语言。内容的取舍上避重就轻地写比较易于表达的内容。很多人在写作过程中从头至尾都处于被动状态，当有内容想要表达清楚的时候，却又发现种种途径都不可能表达好，只好硬着头皮把自己意识到没把握的东西勉强写上去。连自己都意识到可能是错误的东西，只会产生于己不利的负面影响。所以，当有的内容感觉一点找不着，英语实在表达不清楚的时候，就应该彻底地放弃。单词拼写错误也是雅思考试作文写作的一大问题。常用单词是不能拼错的，有的单词平时会拼写，考试时突然没把握了，不妨换一下或许还能想起另外一个难度大一点、拼写有把握的来代替。应该回避明确知道自己不会拼写的词。如果没法换一个词，将句子改换一种说法亦未尝不可。有的考生在考卷上没把握的地方标上问号，或者把两种可能都写上，让判卷老师选择，这个方法是不可取的。

总之，不能让自己陷人被动，想说什么，用什么方式说。说多少，说到什么程度。一切都应由考生主动把握，这样才会减少心理上的压力，

1.Thinking of each other is just like a thread connecting both you on the one end and m e on the other end.

思念是一条细长的线，一端系着你，一端系着我，时刻连接着两颗跳动不息的心。

2.If life cheats you，dont be disappointed and worried.Calmness is needed in melancholy days.Believe that pleasantness is coming.Long for the bright future though you are unhappy. All will pass by and everything will be over.Past things will be pleasant memories. ———[Russia]Alesander Pushkin

假如生活欺骗了你，不要悲伤，不要心急。阴郁的日子需要镇静。相信吧，那愉快的日子即将来临。心永远憧憬着未来，尽管你现在常常是阴沉的。一切都是瞬息，一切都会过去，而过去了的，将会变成亲切的怀念。

3.I am not an outstanding student of yours，but you are the most respectable teacher to me in my eyes. On this special day，I extend my heartfelt respects to you!

我不是您最出色的学生，而您却是我最尊敬的老师。在这特别的日子里，我要把一份崇高的敬意献给您!

4.Time does not water down the wine of friendship;distance does not separate our hands of longing.Wishing you happiness forever!

时间冲不淡友情的酒，距离拉不开思念的手，祝福你，永远永远!

5.Time is flying away，and years are passing by.Only our friendship is always in my heart.Farewell，my friend!Take care，my friend!

流水匆匆，岁月匆匆，唯有友情永存心中。朋友，再见!朋友，珍重!

6.Oh，my friend，do you like stars?If you feel lonely far away from home，look up at the stars in the sky， where there is a star for luck that Ive send you.

朋友，你喜欢星空吗?如果有一天你在远方流浪时感到孤独、忧郁，请抬头看看星空，那儿有我送给你的幸运星。

7.Life is a profound book.Others notes cannot replace your own understanding.May you find and create something new in it.

生活是一本精深的书，别人的注释代替不了自己的理解。愿你有所发现，有所创造。

8.No formula can be used to calculate your devotion;no poems and songs to express our heartfelt gratitude to you.It is you that cultivate our minds with your extensive knowledge and your noble spirits.On this special occasion，please accept our best wishes!

加减乘除，算不出您作出的奉献!诗词歌赋颂不完对您的崇敬!您用知识的甘露，浇开我们理想的花朵，在这不寻常的时刻，请接受我深深的祝福!

9.Dont be disappointed on the journey of life.There are friends in the world.Seize your chance and value your opportunities.May our friendship be everlasting.

人生路上何须惆怅，天涯海角总有知音。把握机会珍惜缘分，祝愿我们友谊长存。

10.I have three wishes：May our friendship warm our hearts!May joy be always with you and me!May we often meet each other!

我有三愿：一愿友情温暖我们心田，二愿欢乐永驻你我心间，三愿我们常常相见!

培养学生综合运用、巩固与扩展所学的基础理论和专业知识，培养学生独立分析、解决实际问题能力，小编收集了本科毕业论文的写作要求，欢迎阅读。

一、论文的结构，文体风格与印刷。

1、一篇完整的毕业设计(论文)一般包括以下部分：(1)封面;(2)五张相应的表格;

(3)中文摘要和关键词(英文摘要和关键词);(4)目录;(5)前言、引言、或者概论、序言;(6)论文正文;(7)结论;(8)致谢;(19)参考文献;(10)附录(根据专业需要进行选择);(11)封底。

各部分均应单独成页，不能和其他部分共处于一页内。

二、 应满足以下要求：

1. 毕业设计(论文)的字数，本科不低于10000字(含图表)，必须采用电脑打印，推荐软件为WORD.

毕业设计采用计算机排版，用A4纸单面打印，论文的正文部分、参考文献和附录可以采用双面或者单面打印，其他部分必须采用单面打印。页面设置为上、下各为2.5 cm，左右各为2.5 cm，页眉、页脚各为1.5 cm。设计主体部分为1.5倍行距，段前、段后无空行(即空0行)。

2.设计封面中，题目用二号黑体字填写，学生姓名、专业、年级、指导教师等用三号黑体字填写。

3.“摘要”字样用三号黑体、居中，并在其下插入一空行;摘要内容采用小四号宋体(英文为Times New Roman)、1.5倍行距，摘要字数应该在300—500字左右，以不超过一页为佳。;“关键词” 是技术专用词，要一目了然可知论文中摘要研究内容，一般每篇设计可选3—8个，多个关键词之间应以分号隔开，“关键词”字样用小四号黑体，关键词内容采用小四号宋体。关键词和中文摘要列在同一页内，其间可间隔两、三行。摘要和关键词这页不打印页码。

4. 目录是论文的重要组成部分。目录的风格一般采用正式目录格式(可以参考word中有关目录的命令)。此页下面不编页码。一般使用2—3级目录，每一级目录相对上一级向后空两格。目录后面的内容才编排在目录里面，且页码从阿拉伯数字“1”开始编排

5、页码从设计主体部分开始按阿拉伯数字连续编排，位于页面底端居中，采用Times New Roman五号字。

6.设计主体部分中：理科类可编写几个章节，每一章单独成页且用小三号加粗宋体居中打印“第一章 Xxxxx”、“第二章 xxx等”;文科类可不分章节，可以分为几大部分，每部分间隔一行。一级标题用四号黑宋体靠正文左边书写;二级标题选用小四号宋体(加粗)，三级标题用小四号宋体，二、三级标题前均只空两个字。设计主体部分字体选用小四号宋体、1.5倍行距，每段前空两个字。文档中嵌入的图(表)应在其下以“图(表)1.1XxXXX”的形式加以说明，在正文中以如“图(表)1.1”加以引用。图(表)m. n的含义是：m代表章数，n表示本图在该章所有图中的序号。每章的第一幅图(表)均以n=1开始。

7、总结(结论)的写法。总结(结论)的篇幅不大，但非常重要。结论是对整个研究工作进行归纳和综合而得出的总结，对所得结果与已有的结果的比较和课题尚存在的问题，以及进一步开展研究的见解与建议。结论要写得概括、简短。首先对整个论文工作 做一个简单小结，然后将自己在研究开发工作中所做出的贡献，或独立研究的成果列举出来，在对自己工作的进展、水平做一个实事求是的评论。同时应该讨论目前研究中的不足以及仍需进一步完善的工作。

8.“参考文献”字样用三号黑体、居中，参考文献以在正文中引用的先后顺序排列，序号加方括号。按文中出现顺序列出直接引用的主要参考文献。可列于参考文献表的文献类型包括图书、期刊、会议论文集、专利和学位论文等。其著录格式分别如下(见附录D)：

a.图书：[顺序编号]作者(3人以内全部写上，3人以上只写3人再加等或etal).书名.版本(第 版).出版地：出版者，出版年

b.期刊：[顺序编号]作者(3人以内全部写上，3人以上只写3人再加等或etal).文章名称.期刊名称，年号，卷号(期号)：起页~止页

c.会议论文集：[顺序编号]作者(3人以内全部写上，3人以上只写3人再加等或etal)。文章名称(英文用In)，论文集名，出版地，出版者，出版年

d.专利：[顺序编号]专利申请者.专利题名.专利国别.专利文献种类，专利出版日期 e.学位论文：[顺序编号]作者，题名[博士或硕士学位论文]，保存地点，保存单位，年份

9、致谢的写法：致谢反应作者在毕业设计中在理论知识和科研能力方面所得到的进步以及取得这些进步的内、外在因素。主要是对在写作过程中指导完成论文工作的导师、协助导师指导论文工作或提供便利条件的个人或组织(教研室、实验室等);在论文工作中提出建议和提供帮助的人;给予转载和引用权的资料、图片、文献、研究思想和设想的所有者 表示谢意。致谢的内容应该真诚和客观。

9.设计采用左侧装订。装订顺序：封面→表格→摘要(单独占页)→目录(单独占页)→主体部分(理科类专业每章另起一页，文科类每一部分写完后空一行)→结论(单独占页→参

考文献(单独占页)→致谢(单独占页)→附录。

摘要(小三)

××××××××，××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××(300-500字左右，小四)

关键词：××××、××××、××××、××××(小四)

(目次页编排示例)

(参考件，适用理科类专业)

目 录(小三号宋体加粗)

第一章 绪言(4号宋体加粗)?????????????????????(1)

1.1 ××××(4号宋体)??????????????????(1)

1.2 ××××?????????????????????????(2)

1.3 ××××?????????????????????????(3)

第二章 理论分析???????????????????????????(6)

2.1 ××××?????????????????????????(6)

2.2 ××××?????????????????????????(8)

2.3 ××××????????????????????????(10)

第三章 实验研究???????????????????????????(16

3.1 实验材料?????????????????????????(16)

3.2 实验装置?????????????????????????(18)

3.3 实验结果?????????????????????????(20)

第四章 数值计算与仿真????????????????????????(21)

4.1 ××××????????????????????????(21)

4.2 ××××????????????????????????(23)

4.3 ××××????????????????????????(25)

第五章 结果分析与结论(讨论)???????????????????(28)

5.1 ××××????????????????????????(28)

5.2 ××××????????????????????????(30) 致谢??????????????????????????????(32) 参考文献????????????????????????????(33) 附录A????????????????????????????(37) 附录B ?????????????????????????????(38)

论文主体部分示例

(参考件适用理科类专业)

第一章 机构投资概述(小三号宋体加粗)

1.1 机构投资的概念和分类(四号宋体)

所谓机构投资者，指在证券市场上，保险基金，养老基金和证券投资基金等以机构身份从事证券投资的投资者。机构投资则是机构投资者在证券市场的投资行为。它通常具有集中性、专业性、长期性的特点，比较注重理性投资和长期投资，被认为是稳定股市的重要力量。机构投资者是相对于散户(即个人投资者)而言的，一般以其拥有的资金量来判断，投资者在入市时也有明确的分类。(小四号宋体)

1.1.1 机构投资与机构投资者(小四号宋体)

机构投资的典型代表是投资基金。投资基金是由多数投资者出资组成的，委托专业管理机构进行动作，收益共享，风险共担的集合投资。按投资领域，可分为证券投资基金和产业投资基金两大类。投资于产业领域中未上市企业的投资基金，称为产业投资基金，其中，投资于未上市创业企业的，称为创业投资基金，或称为风险投资基金[1]。广义的机构投资包括机构投资者的产业投资和证券投资。本文的讨论集中在狭义的机构投资，即以证券市场上的机构投资为主，第三章也会讨论一种特殊的基金--产业投资和证券投资的融合--风险投资基金。

我国股市在初期主要以散户为主体，大户在当时的作用至关重要，从而形成了暴涨暴跌的局面[2]。从1996年开始，各地产生了大量的证券公司及信托投资公司，从而逐渐改变了原有的状况，券商及投资公司成为证券市场的重要力量。1998年3月，国泰基金管理公司与南方基金管理公司成立。基金的加盟标志着我国证券市场的投资主体进入了一个新阶段。目前，基金管理公司已有10多家，管理着36个基金、近千亿的资产，对我国股市产生了极其重要的影响，从1999年5月至今大行情的形成，除了国家经济基本面改善的因素外，管理层大规模发展基金功不可没。如：对现有证券公司、信托投资公司进行整合重组，扩大券商实力等。除此而外，机构投资者中将会出现社保基金、保险基金为主体的基金管理公司。

目 录(四号宋体加粗居中)(适用文科类专业)

一、商业银行业务创新的国际借鉴

二、国有商业银行有业务创新的现状分析

(一)国有商业银行有业务创新存在的问题

(二)制约国有商业银行业务创新的因素

三、国有商业银行有业务创新的思路

(一)资产业务创新?

1.贷款业务创新

2.投资业务创新

(二)负债业务创新

1.存款业务创新

2.非存款业务创新

(三)创新

四、推进商业银行业务创新的制度保障   参考文献     致谢

(宋体、小四，然后分页)

正文模板(适用于文科类)

随着经济全球化和现代科技的迅猛发展，全球商业银行经营发展的外部环境发生了巨大的变化，从而导致商业银行在经营理念、运作方式、管理机制、服务手段等方面都进行了深刻的变化。从国内来看，随着对外开放的步伐日益加大，人们对金融服务的要求不断提高，银行之间的竞争愈来愈激烈，传统的银行业务已经越来越不能满足客户的需要，迫切需要国有商业银行加大业务创新力度。因而，如何增强金融创新能力以及应对迫在眉睫的金融全球化的严峻挑战已成为中国商业银行急待解决的重要问题。(所有正文均宋体小四，行距1.5倍，首行缩进两个字符)

引言和一级标题之间，以及所有一级 标题之间空一行)

一、商业银行业务创新的国际借鉴(一级标题，用汉字编号，左对齐，四号宋体加粗)

日新月异的金融创新是当今国际银行业的重要特征之一。充分借鉴和吸收发达国家(地区)商业银行在业务创新中的成功经验和做法,对于我国银行业创新策略的有重要的指导意义。通过分析发达国家(地区)商业银行的业务创新经验,大致可归纳出以下4大特点:

(一) 业务创新具有良好的制度和环境保障(二级标题，用阿拉伯数字编号，缩进二个字符，小四宋体加粗)

发达国家(地区)的商业银行一般都采用股份公司的组织形式。作为商业银行,为股东赚取尽可能多的利润是其最主要的目标。当银行面临的外部环境有可能影

图画作文是近年大学英语四级写作中出现频率较高的一类文体,考生要特别加以重视。众所周知，题目所给出的图画必然反映了一定的社会现实或者揭露出某种社会现象。相比其他的文体而言，这类作文难度较大，既要求考生通过文字形式分析出图画内容，又要将图中所包含的的思想内容准确地表达出来。为此，应届毕业生网就此类作文写作步骤予以如下几方面的指导和点拨。

一、审题立意

四级作文写作过程中最关键的步骤就是审题，不仔细审题就会很容易使作文跑题，因此这是必不可少的第一步。此步骤要注意两点：一是分析题目和图画，确定文章的命题类型，抓住中心思想，联想此作文要求的写作主题。二是进一步确定给定的题材及此作文要考查的重点内容。也就是说，通过审题，考生要对作文谈论的主要话题心中有数。

二、组织结构

审题之后，根据分析的结果草拟提纲并组织安排段落，确定文章的整体结构。一般而言，考生可将图画作文转化为三段式提纲作文。开始段描述图画内容；中间段解释图画所反映出来的深层意义；结尾段引出结论，总结全文。各段的主题句要条理清晰，以使自己要表达的内容有更好的把握。每段的重点都应集中于描述图画规定的内容。选用的词句应紧扣图画主题、突出重点、前后连贯、表达清楚。

三、检查修改

考试过程中，很多考生由于紧张、仓促等原因，很容易犯一些简单的错误。因此，最后留出几分钟时间来修改所写内容是很有必要的。然而，切忌大幅度地对作文惊醒修改，因为这样会破坏卷面整洁，影响阅卷老师对试卷的印象。修改时可以从两点着手：

语法方面。包括时态是正确、名词单复数是否对应、被动主动语态是否正确、主谓是否一致等。

词汇方面。包括连接上下句或段落的关联词、固定搭配、及物不及物动词的使用、习惯用语是否使用正确等。同时，单词拼写错误和标点误用都是扣分点，考生应尽量避免此类错误。

综上所述，四级写作需要遵循上述步骤，即审题立意、组织结构、检查修改。祝考生顺利通关！

How time flies! I have studied in my school for three years. And I will graduate from middle school in a month. I am eager to share my happiness and sadness with you. I had so many memories in three years’ life. One of them impressed me very much. I still remember, when I began to learn English, I found it too difficult. No matter how hard I tried, I still couldn’t do well in it and almost gave it up. As soon as my English teacher found my problem, she had a talk with me about how to learn English well. Since then, she has kept helping me. Little by little, I’ve become interested in English and I’m good at it. I think I am so lucky to become one of her students. I’ve learned a lot from her. I will try to help others when they are in trouble. I think it is a happy thing to help others.

【概念】

会计基础工作管理制度是企业对会计核算和会计管理服务的基础性工作做出的规定。会计基础工作是一个比较广泛的概念，它会随着会计职能的扩展而不断发展。因此，企业会计基础工作管理制度是要结合企业内部管理的需要和会计管理职能的发展来确定的。

【技巧】

制度的写法是条文式，即把制度内容分条款逐一写出，其结构可分为标题、正文和结尾3部分。

1. 标题。由制定单位、工作内容和文种3部分组成。有的制度标题中不写制定单位，而将它写在结尾。

2. 正文。这是制度的主体部分。写条款前可加一小段引言，简要、概括地说明制定这项制度的原因、根据、目的等情况，接着逐条写各项内容。一个企业内部的制度也可以不写引文，直接写条款。条款写完后还要写明此项制度从什么时间开始执行。

3. 结尾。条款写完后要写明制定单位、公布日期。企业内部的制度行文不必盖章，如是政府机关或某个系统制定的需广泛下发执行的制度，必须在落款处加盖公章，以增强其真实性和严肃性。

会计基础工作管理制度的制定应当遵循三个原则：

1. 应当体现本企业的生产经营、业务管理的特点和要求；

2. 应当科学、合理，便于操作和执行；

3. 应当根据管理需要和执行中的问题不断完善。 会计基础工作管理制度一般包括以下内容。 原始记录管理制度：会计凭证、会计账簿、会计报表、会计档案等的格式设计、填制方法、审核要求、移交手续、销毁程序等。 会计人员岗位责任制度：互相牵制的会计机构的设置，会计人员的配备和分工，会计人员的职责和权限。 定额管理制度：制定和修订定额的依据和程序，定额的执行方法，定额的考核和奖惩办法等。 计量验收制度：计量检测手段和方法，计量验收管理的要求，计量验收人员的责任和奖惩办法。 财产清查制度：财产清查的组织，财产清查的范围，财产清查的期限和方法，对财产管理人员的奖惩方法。

导语：童话、寓言是比较有难度的体裁，需要学生发挥想象力。下面是童话寓言写作基础介绍，欢迎参考！

【技法解说】:

自小，我们就在童话和寓言的熏陶下长大，在那个五彩纷呈的童话世界里，让我们认识了什么是勇敢和善良，什么是无畏和坚强，更是让我们认识到什么是自私和狭隘，狠毒和狡猾。“狼外婆”的故事陪伴我们渡过了童年的时光。长大后，我们知道了更多的童话故事和寓言：“盘古开天”使我明白追求要执著、“女娲补天”让我们窥见到了为民造福的大志，那“嫦娥奔月”的故事时常在耳边萦绕、“神笔马良”让我明白了贪婪最终会摧毁自己……我还为安徒生笔下卖火柴的小女孩流过泪，为可怜的白雪公主找到自己的幸福而兴奋不已……所有这些，都给我们创造了一个绚丽多彩的童话世界。

在这里面，感受到的都是奇异的情节和虚拟的事物和境界，但它们无一不是以现实生活为基础，通过夸张、拟人、象征等的表现手法反映的现实社会生活中的情形，它们富含义讽喻和教育意义，透过具体浅显的故事，寄寓深奥的道理。想象和联想是它们最重要的特征，

童话与寓言，它们常常通过借古喻今、借物喻人、借小喻大或借此喻彼的手法，揭示事物丰富的内涵和蕴含着的深刻的道理，我们在进行写作时，通过也可以运用这样一种形式，来表达自己的观点，抒发自己的情感，只要把握了它们的写作特点，必定能写出高品质的文章来的。

【成功佳作1】

留给明天

天津一考生

3030年的一个下午，伊波懊恼地坐在窗口，呆呆地望着眼前一座座早已人去楼空的大厦。头顶灰黄灰黄的天空还下着毛毛细雨，空气中弥漫着难闻的气味。哎，又是酸雨！伊波不由深深叹了口气。

就在几天前，地球上的最后一批人也集体迁往建设好的火星，抛弃了这已满目疮痍的人类故土。当时，伊波正在地下126层的公寓里休息，接到E-mail通知时，电梯已断电了，当他气喘吁吁地爬到地面时，火箭已经升空了。他绝望了，对天空大声喊着：“还有我呀！不能这样把我丢弃呀！”无人回应，地面上所有机械设备都被掐断电源，伊波无法与火星上的人们联络，更何况人们原本就没打算在火星、地球之间架设太空站——成本太高了。

空虚、恐惧一次次袭来，几乎让伊波透不过气来。突然，“咚咚咚”，工作室的门被敲响了，有人还没走？伊波忘了可以用遥控器开门，快步冲到门口，打开了门。啊！

“好啊，真还没走光啊！”金丝猴气急败坏地吼道：“人类真自私！把地球搞成这样，就开溜！”

伊波还没回过神来，其它动物也七嘴八舌地议论着，谩骂着。丹顶鹤清清嗓子，叫道：“安静安静，各位请安静！我来讲几句。先生，别生气，小猴是过火了点，可它讲的一点也没错。虽然我们智商没你们高，可我们很明白是谁把我们共有的家园污染成这副模样，树和动物一样稀少，凑在一起连林子都算不上。气候反复无常，六月下雪，一月不是酸雨就是洪灾。天是黄的，土是黄的，连空气里都是黄沙、二氧化碳。一切这么衰败，是谁造成的？以后火星也会成为这个样子，那时怎么办？再跑？”

丹顶鹤还在喋喋不休地数落着。伊波心里复杂极了，人类为什么迁徙？地球为什么会这样子？伊波流泪了，为可怜的地球流泪，更为可耻的人类流泪。

“我要替人类赎罪，建设好今天，留一个美好的地球给明天。”伊波下定决心，开始愚公移山般地工作，他想着，一天种下一百棵树，一天就可以为明天创造亿分之一的美好。哪怕耗尽这一生，他也要尽自己全力，改造满目疮痍的家园，留给明天一个温馨和谐的社会。

【名师指津】:

本文是一篇科幻为体裁的童话作文，文章以丰富的想象、合理的联想，虚构了一个千年以后的故事：一名叫伊波的人类未能逃离千疮百孔的地球，成为最后一个地球人。如何面对眼前的现实，如何重新与地球上的其它动物共存？伊波决心以实际行动解决这些问题，于是，伊波下定决心为绿化地球奉献自己的一生，文章最后以 “留给明天一个温馨和谐的社会”为结束语，从而点明题意，回应了话题。不言而喻，这篇童话所谴责的是破坏环境的人类，希望唤醒人们的良知，从长远看，保护环境，为了明天，建设好家园。

【锦囊妙计之一】

联想想象要有现实基础

“留给明天”什么，考生没有直接地回答，而是通过联想和想象，虚构出了一个千年后的人类逃离地球的故事，来说明了唯一的一名人类“伊波”和其它动物为给明天留下一个和谐的社会而努力拼搏的精神。环境是人类自己亲手破坏的，那么重建也是人类义不容辞的义务。可见，童话的写作，最重要的一个特点就是联想和想象要在现实社会生活中找到它的缩影，而不是胡思乱想，这样，虚构出来的故事才会有现实的意义，才能警醒人们，给人以启迪。

【成功佳作2】

卖书

贵州一考生

话说唐僧取经回来后，花果山众猴见孙悟空得道成仙，无一猴不羡慕。其中一只叫小三儿的，也梦想着有一天能赚钱出名。

一天，它问孙悟空：“大王，要怎样才能赚大钱呢?”孙悟空眨眨眼睛，想了一会儿说：“最近流行出书热，你也写本书吧。”

小三儿心想，我别的什么都不会，就是写作文还行。以前考试，我的作文还得过第一呢。对，写书。

它兴冲冲地回了家，用三个月时间，打造出一本《新大唐西域记》，拿去给孙悟空审核。孙悟空翻了翻看了看。“晤，不错。写得真的不错。”小三儿挺高兴，回去找了家出版社，印了几千本书开始销售。

书上了市，反响平平。两个月过去，才卖了一千本不到。怪了，怎么没人买呢?小三儿想不通。于是它上街作起了市场调查。

“《新大唐西域记》呀？没听说过。”

“什么？看书？谁有那闲工夫。”

“对不起，我急着回家上网。”

“《新大唐西域记》？买了，还没来得及看呢!”，

问了几个人，不是没听说过就是买了没看，理由大都是没时间呀、要上网呀什么的。小三儿有点儿受打击。它又问了一个人：“你看过《新大唐西域记》吗？”

“看过看过，写得挺好。”

小三儿挺高兴，问道：“你是买了书还是向别人借的。”

那人像看怪物似的看着小三儿：“你有病吧!现在谁还买书呀!网上看书又快又实惠。好好学学吧你。”

网上卖书，成吗？小三儿边走边想，肯定已有人发了我的书。

“哟，这不是三儿嘛。怎么样，书卖得好不好呀?”猪八戒走来，问道。

小三儿摇了摇头。猪八戒听它说了事情的始末，抚着肚子告诉小三儿：“你呀，一开始就不应该听猴哥的，你应该把书发到网上去，那样才会火爆大卖，听我的，没错。”

于是小三儿回到家，把书发到了网上。果然不出一个月，点击率就已经非常高了。小三儿买了套西服，买了部手机，成了有钱人。

孙悟空见到它，语重心长地对它说：“现在像你这样写作，过不了多久人们就会忘记你，经典的东西是应该能保存很久的东西。”

小三儿不以为意，继续做着网络写手。

两百年过去了，人们对网络书籍的兴趣已经淡了。很少有人再上网看书，小三儿又成了花果山上普普通通的一只猴子。

天庭，孙悟空对八戒说：“八戒，你看，还是我说的对吧。书籍能永久保存人类的思想。通过看书，才能有所提高，什么网络呀，信息时代呀，不过是过眼云烟，就像一阵风吹过，什么印儿也没留下。”猪八戒无奈地笑了笑，低头看看人间书店里来来往往的人群。

【名师指津】

体裁形式的创新，已经成为高考作文一个重要的得分因素，但体裁形式不是一个孤立的东西，它必须紧密结合内容，为内容的表达服务，才会活起来，真正发挥作用。《卖书》一文的即以“童话”的方式揭示了现实社会生活中真实现状，它借用《西游记》的故事，目标直指出版界和图书阅读中的种种不良倾向，呼唤优良阅读传统的回归。文章语言幽默诙谐，使人忍俊不禁。

【锦囊妙计之二】

借古喻今  新编童话

近几年来，高考中新编童话类作文获得不少青睐，常常借用文学作品的人物或故事情节，融入当今社会的基本观念，以新的故事，阐述一个深刻的道理，即借古喻今。本文就是这样的一篇典范，由于网络的出现，人们的阅读习惯已经改变了不小，如何看待这个现象，考生借用《西游记》中人物，再假设了一只小猴，通过出版纸质书籍和运用网络写书进行比较，传递出自己的观点：只有书籍才能永久保存人类的思想。可见，同学们在写作童话时，也可采用借古喻今的写法，新编一个童话来阐明自己的观点。

【成功佳作3】

“问”点亮了生命的灯

四川一考生

一个漆黑的夜晚，一个远行寻佛的苦行僧走到一个荒僻的村落中。漆黑的村道上，络绎的村民们在默默地你来我往。

苦行僧转过一条村巷，看到一团晕黄的灯从巷子的深处静静地亮过来。身旁的一位村民说：“孙瞎子过来了。”

僧人百思不得其解。一个双目失明的盲人，一般地说他没有白天黑夜的概念，他挑一盏灯笼岂不令人迷惑和可笑？

僧人问道：“敢问施主真是一位盲者吗？”

那挑灯笼的盲人告诉他：“是的，从踏进这个世界，我就一直双眼混浊”。

僧人又问：“既然你什么都看不见，那你为何挑一盏灯笼呢？”

盲者说：“现在是黑夜吧，我听说在黑夜里没有灯光的映照，那么世界上的人都和我一样是盲人，所以我就点燃了一盏灯笼”。

僧人若有所悟地说：“原来您是为别人照明了？！”

“不，我是为自己！”盲人淡淡地答道。

为你自己？僧人又愣了。

盲人缓缓地问僧人：“你是否因为夜色漆黑而被其他人碰撞过？”

僧人说：“是的，就在刚才，被两个不留心的人碰撞过”。

盲人听了，就得意地说：“但我就没有，虽说我是盲人，我什么也看不见，但我挑了这灯笼，既为别人照亮，也更让别人看到我自己，这样，他们就不会因为看不见而碰撞我了”。

苦行僧听了，顿有所悟。

他仰天长叹说：“我奔波天涯海角寻觅我佛，没想到佛就在我的身边哦！人的佛性就像一盏灯，只要我点亮了，即使我看不见佛，但佛会看到我自己的。”

是啊，在生活中有许多疑问，有人好问，有人不好问，苦行僧就在一处不经意的问当中寻找到了自己踏遍千山万水都没找到的东西。是“问”点亮了那盏生命之灯，既照亮了别人，更照亮了他自己，只有先照亮别人，才能够照亮我们自己。

为别人点燃我们自己的生命之灯吧！这样，在生命的夜色里，我们才能找到自己的平安和灿烂！

【名师指津】

“问”什么，怎样“问”，“问”中有什么哲理？考生通过一个故事，向我们传达了自己的观点：“问”点亮了生命之灯。考生首先虚构了一个漆黑的夜晚这样一个场景，然后通过盲人与僧人之间的对话，最后提示出了本文的主旨，文体符合寓言的特征。本文很有禅味，有寓意，有哲理，给人以生活的启迪。

【锦囊妙计之三】

浅显易懂  以小见大

寓言的特点一般为小、少、简、深。小是指其篇幅短小；少是指涉及的人物数量少；简是指故事情节简单；深是指它所蕴涵的道理深刻。本文内容简洁，情节简单，但却蕴含着深刻的人生道理。这种写法即是以小见大的写法。本文人物只有二个，情节只是僧人对盲人夜里提灯的疑问，故事浅显易懂，简单明了，然而，正是这一浅显的故事中，却揭示出了一个人生的大道理。

【成功佳作4】

“三”的奇遇

湖北一考生

自从“三”被苍颉老爸造出来以后，就一直不服气，整天拉长着脸。他想：“凭什么我总是排在最后一位，当个‘季军’！”既没有“一”的洒脱利落，又没有“二”的出双入对。于是，“三”决定离家出走，自个儿闯荡江湖。

“三”来到了一所学校的外面，听见里面的孩子正在早读。于是“三”一溜烟窜上了窗台。“三人行，必有我师……”“三”字听到自己的名字，往桌上一看，只见《论语》写着这样一句话。“三”是又惊又喜，忙问自己的影子：“你在这儿过得好吗？”影子说：“很好呀，孩子们每天都要诵读我们呢！如‘三思而行’，‘三省吾身’……大家都很爱戴我们，说我们代表了变幻与重复！代表了众人的力量，代表了稳定与踏实。这样吧，我带你到处看看吧！”说着影子从书本上钻了出来，拉起“三”往外就跑。

他们来到书店，书店许多书上都有“三”的身影，有些书干脆就直接用“三”命名，如《三字经》、《三言二拍》，这可把“三”给喜坏了。他随手翻开一本书，只见上面写着“举一反三”，“三”一看当场凉了半截，口里喃喃道：“干吗要反对我呢？”影子听到了，笑着说：“你可别会错了意，你在这儿是含有‘灵活、多变、有内涵’的意思喔！说的是例举一个事例，可以推及到其他事例。你可是变幻女神了！‘三’不光只是代表无用功的重复，而代表了一次又一次更深刻的理解，每次都有变化，每次都有新的意义，不停止不前，勇于创新。”听着听着，“三”不觉脸红了，觉得人们对他其实挺好。

“三”又随影子来到了人群之中，突然听见一个人说：“三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮。”话还没听完，“三”又急了，怎么又把我与“臭”字放到一起。影子赶快安慰说：“你又弄错了，这儿的‘三’代表了众人的力量。你可是团结女神了！‘三’个人字，便是‘众’。在人们口中，你便是团结互助的象征。你还可以与‘人’字组合，成为‘仨’字呢！就是三个人的意思。看，这多亲切呦！”“三”觉得好感动，其实自己是个很有用的字呢！

“三”又来到了木工房，可到处找，这儿哪有“三”啊！影子笑着说：“别急别急，你看见桌子上的三角形了吗？三角形也有‘三’，而且三角形是最稳定的图形了。你在这儿可是安定，踏实的象征呢！”“三”点点头，略有所悟。

这时，苍颉出现在了“三”的面前，他笑着说：“小三儿，这回想通了吧？”“三”点点头。他想，其实每个汉字都承传着一种意义，代表着一种源远流长的文化，自己还自怨自艾什么呢！

【名师指津】

本文运用拟人的手法，写了“三”一路的所见所闻，在学校受到的欢迎，书店里的尴尬，人群中的感动和木工房里的感悟，4个场面，从不同的角度诠释了“三”的作用和意义，最后指出“每个汉字都承传着一种意义，代表着一种源远流长的文化”这一主旨。全文构思新巧而又紧扣题意，特别是叙述简明生动，是一篇优秀的高考寓言类作文。

【锦囊妙计之四】

拟人手法  形象生动

寓言的写作，一般要通过生动形象的情节去打动读者，感染读者，给读者以深刻的道理，因此，常常运用拟人的手法进行写作。这样，就会使形象鲜明活泼，避免了刻板抽象的说教。从本文来看，考生把“三”拟人化，赋予“三”以人的个性，特别是在与“影子”的对话，更是突出了它的性格特征：在学校时的惊喜的神态，因误解了“举一反三”的而“脸红”，“三”代表“众”时的感动和“三角形”表示稳定时的感悟的神情，都活灵活现的，逼真的表现了出来。

不知不觉，我初中毕业了，这个原本我会非常开心的时候，心情却非常的复杂。

初三下学期就这样平淡地结束，这意味着我们要永远告别陪伴我三年的学校，告别三年来朝夕相处的同学。而迎接我们的是一个未知的世界。

在以前总是听父母说珍惜美好青春，时间不等人之类的话，心里总是不以为然，。到了现在，我才深深的体会到时光如水的含义。夜里无人，四周一片寂静，学校的一幕幕经常会浮现在我的的眼前。锦州军训、五里河运动会、沃尔玛岗位体验、参观海城少管所……这一切还向刚刚发生过那样清晰。但是已经离我们很遥远了。

过去的用换不回再回来，正如张老师说的一样，不会有人两次同时踏入同一条河里。能留给我们的也仅仅是回忆。每当回忆起那些和我一起哭、一起笑过的同学，那一件件学校中发生的小事，再想到这些永远也不会再回来，不禁让我为之落泪。

初中毕业了，我将读高中，在那里，我会认识新的朋友，不过，我不会忘记我的初中生活的。

Before I knew it， I had graduated from junior high school。

This is the end of the first trimester， which means that we have to say goodbye to my three years of school and the students who have spent three years together。 And we are greeted by an unknown world。

In the past， always listening to the parents say that cherishing the good youth， the time waits for the words， the mind always not to think，。 Now， I am deeply aware of the meaning of time。 There was no one in the night， and there was silence all around， and the curtain of the school often appeared before my eyes。 The golden state military training， the wuli river games， the wal—mart post experience， the visit to the juvenile canal in the sea。。。 Its all just as clear as it has been。 But its far from us。

In the past， I would not return again， as Mr Zhang said， but no one would step into the same river twice。 The only thing that can be left for us is memory。 Every time I remember those who cried and laughed with me， the little things that happened in the school， and the thought of never coming back， I cried for it。

I will go to high school。 I will meet new friends there， but I will not forget my junior high school life。

In my 18 years of life, there have been many things. University days are the best part of them. I can never forget the days when I stepped into my university. I was impressed by its garden-like campus, its enthusiastic students and especially its learning atmosphere. I at once fell in love with it.

After the arduous military training, I get absolutely absorbed in my studies. The classes given by the teachers are excellent. They provide us with information not only from our textbooks but from many other sources as well. They easily arouse my insatiable desire to take in as much as I can.

Frankly speaking, at first I had some difficulty following the teachers. However, through my own efforts and thanks to my teachers guidance, I made remarkable progress. Now Ive benefited a lot from lectures and many other academic reports.

Learning is a long process; Ill keep exploring in the treasure house of knowledge to enrich myself. This summer I got out of the ivory tower and entered the real world. A publishing house offered me a part-time job in compilation and revision.

At the beginning I was belittled by my colleagues. But they were really surprised when I translated seven English articles over 5,000 words on only one day. Gradually, they began to look at me with respectful eyes. In their opinion I turned out to be a useful and trustworthy colleague.

I also realize that only those who bring happinefor others can be truly happy. So I often take part in activities concerning public welfare. I once went to a barren mountain village with my classmates. We taught the kids there who could not afford school. While showing them how broad and how civilized the outer world is, I was deeply touched by their eagerneto learn, their honesty and their purity. I couldnt control my tears on the day when we left. The precious experience with the poor kids made me aware of the responsibility on the shoulders of us, future teachers.

Besides study and social practice, there are entertainments as well. I do body building every day, hoping to keep healthy and energetic. We also write a play and put it on in our spare time.

Campus life is the most splendid time. But different people have different choices. The majority of students cherish their beautiful season and cherish the hope that one day theyll become outstanding. But there are indeed some students still under ignorance. They gather together for eating, drinking or playing cards. Theyre busy in searching for a girlfriend or a boyfriend. They forget completely about their mission as college students and the hope of their motherland.

Finally, I do hope everybody can try their best to become a worthy citizen of the country. I do hope everybody can become the backbone of our nation and make great contributions to society

导语：很多同学谈英语作文而色变，大家似乎都特别怕写作。其实要把英语作文写成高分不外乎就是多背，多看，多练，多积累，多仿。趁着还有时间，建议考生要抓紧复习提升，下面是高分作文写作的方法，17年的考生认真看看。

一、了解意图，抓住精髓

近年来的大作文非常玄妙，值得细品。首先，很可能大作文正在经历由时事向哲理过渡的重大变革，这在2001年、2002年、2004年、2007年、2009和2010年真题上表现得最为明显。其次，出题人将尽量用图画来表达意图，而不借助或少借助图中或图旁的文字，这样意义表达的会更深刻，对考生的思考力和判断力的要求也就更高。第三，图画的含义深刻，可以接受的解释也较多，但要想取得高分，必须紧扣图画，把握住其中的精髓，最深刻地表达其核心的意义。

二、扣紧主题

写大作文时切记要扣紧主题，切不可离题太远，导致最后回不来或时间不够写不完。另外，各部分之间的比例应适当，第一段不要太长。与主题相关的关键词语一定要用对，否则会影响分数。

三、看清要求

有的同学一看到写“网络”，就立即联想到这方面最火爆的话题“网络成瘾”，将主题确定为此。有的同学干脆将之转变为自己看到过的文章——“网络的利与弊”。这些都是不正确的做法。写大作文时，首先要减少语言的错误，提高语言的准确性。语言错误有许多种，有的是小错误，甚至可以忽略不计，而有些是大错误，是让老师看到后不得不扣分的错误。另一方面就是增加闪光点，除了结构清晰外，闪光点主要指好的词、词组或句型，一是使用恰当，二是要有变换。上述这两点都不容易，而结合起来就更难了。如果文章分为三段，那么起始段、结尾段和中间段落的开始部分是非常关键的。对于背诵的好词、词组和句型，一定要和具体的行文联系起来，融入到文章中去，不仅要用对，还要用好，避免给人突兀的感觉。

四、避免投机取巧

近年来，有些考生有投机的心理，结果却很惨烈。有的考生准备了万能模板，直接往上套，这样的效果并不好。正如有的较为激进的阅卷老师所说，这些考生是想通过不诚实的手段得到不属于他的东西，这样的人应该得到惩罚。实际上这些考生中有的水平还不错，如果坚持依靠自己，咬紧牙关奋力拼搏的话，结果会是不错的。

综上所述，对于作文这一部分来说，大家应该首先了解不同文章的特点和规律，而后用心地学习范文并进行模仿，然后练习全文写作并请老师批改再细细揣摩。相信通过这样的过程，大家的写作一定会有长足的进步。

1、organize your thoughts before writing: brainstorm、make an outline、etc。 下笔前整合思绪：脑力激荡，写出纲要等。

2、write clearly。 be concise。 avoid wordiness。写作清晰，务必精简，避免赘言。

3、use good grammar and write complete sentences。 使用好的文法，写出完整句子。

4、write simple sentences。 avoid a fancy style。 尝试简单句，避免花俏的句法。

5、avoid slang、cliche and informal words。 避免俚语、陈腔滥调和非正式用字。

6、avoid use of the first person (i。e。 i/me/my) unless necessary to specific piece。除非必要，避免使用第一人称：如“我/我的”。

7、writing naturally。 read it aloud。 does it sound natural? does it flow? 自然挥洒，大声朗诵。整篇文章听起来自然吗?通顺吗?

8、move logically from one idea to the next。 dont skip steps。 上下句意要合乎逻辑。别毫无章法乱跳。

[坚持八条英语作文的写作守则

语文考试内容所占比例在未来的学习中越来越大，那么如何让语文考试锦上添花呢?那就是在作文上花功夫。下面是小编为大家搜集整理出来的有关于小学语文写作的基础知识及技巧，希望可以帮助到大家！

(一)作文基础知识

1. 审清题意：“五审”：

(1)审清体裁(记叙文、应用文、说明文)。

(2)审清题材(人、物、事、景)。

(3)审清范围(时间、地点、人称、事件、对象具体限制)。

(4)审清主题(中心思想)。

(5)审清其他要求(附加要求)。

2. 确定主题：“四要”：

(1)主题要正确(反应生活实际)。

(2)主题要集中(一个文章不能多个主题)。

(3)主题要鲜明(明确表达自己对事物的态度和立场)。

(4)主题要深刻(深挖内涵思想)。

3. 选择材料：“四要”：

(1)围绕主题选择材料(多写与主题相关的内容)。

(2)选择真实的材料(真实可信，具有代表性和典型性)。

(3)选择新颖的材料(新人新事)。

(4)选择独有的材料(具有创新性)。

4. 编写提纲“五点”：

(1)拟好题目。

(2)确定主题。

(3)段落安排。

(4)每段的主要意思。

(5)重点段落的层次安排和内容。

5. 修改文章“五看”：

(1)是否切题。

(2)主题、思想是否明确、突出。

(3)看材料是否符合主题、内容是否具体、完整。

(4)看语言是否通顺、用词是否准确，有无错别字。

(5)看标点是否正确。

(二)看图作文 “一看二写，四要两注意”

“一看二写”：先看图，再写作文。

“四要”：仔细观察图画；展开合理想象;突出主题、抓住重点;分清主次，具体描写。

“两注意”：看清全画面内容;分清图上内容主次和表达的中心。

(三)记叙文·记事

1. 写清楚事件发生的时间、地点以及事情的发生、发展和结果。

2. 事件经过写具体。

3. 按事件的发展顺序来写。

4. 注意表达真情实感。

(四)记叙文·写人

1. 确定写作对象。

2. 确定人物的思想品质。

3. 选择典型的具体事例。

4. 抓住最能表现人物思想品质的外貌、语言、动作、心理、环境进行描写。

5. 注意表达自己的真实感情。

(五)记叙文·状物——“五要三注意”

1. “五要”：

(1)抓住物的特征。

(2)按一定顺序写。

(3)既写静态又写动态。

(4)展开想象，运用拟人等手法把内容写具体。

(5)托物言志，借物抒情。

2. “三注意”：

(1)仔细观察、抓住特征。

(2)明确中心，展开想象。

(3)根据内容，安排顺序。

(六)记叙文·写景

注意六点：

1. 抓住景物特征。

2. 注意时间、地点、气候等因素的影响。

3. 景物特点安排恰当的顺序。

4. 采用多种手法表现景物特点及变化。

5. 写出自己的感受。

6. 借景抒情。

(七)应用文

1.应用文大多以记叙文为基础，但是还要特别注意的是各种应用文的格式。

2. 常见应用文类型：书信、读后感、通知、留言条、表扬信、建议书和日记。

3. 具体格式：

(1)标题居中。(除了书信、留言条和日记没有标题，其他皆有)

(2)正文：另起一行空两格。

(3)署名和日期：先写署名，另起一行写清“*年*月*日”。

小编导语：如何写好高中作文，对于学生作文的写作基础也要好好的训练，话题作文的基本要求：话题作文还是要审题，所写内容必须在话题范围之内。“立意自定”，关键要读懂话题关键词的意旨，若给出导语提示，还应划出导语中包含归结的关键语词。一般初学者，首先要注意让这些关键词贯穿在自己作文的始终，统帅自己的文意。如何写好高中作文，对于学生作文的写作基础也要好好的训练,实际效果又发现学生完全没有一般思想认识的基础，真正可见现在所谓合格教育的成效，和高中教学要求的“架空作业”。下面小编就来说说话题作文的写作基础。

一、文章形式的革命——夹叙夹议

尽快脱离初中只重记叙，笼统归结的写法。高中的作文记叙只向最高水平开一条缝，你得复杂记叙，融情思与哲理于一炉，有最动人的细节和最精美的表达，巧妙蕴含深刻的思辨和无穷的回味，这不是一般人能做到的，更不是学不会议论抒情的同学的避难所。所以，比自己多练议论，远比固守初中记叙的窠臼要有前途。高中的记叙必须简约，只提炼能说明自己观点的内核，而尽量舍弃叙述的完整过程与细节。叙，惜墨如金;而起始学写议，应力求具体多点分析阐述。

二、文章立意的升华——深入浅出

叙完笼统归结是初中模式作文的又一通病，常常文章的结尾具有宽泛的普适性，而缺乏对文章应有之义作具体针对性的挖掘阐发，常常文章的“穿鞋戴帽”大到可以套在无数篇文章上，却没什么真正的思考。高中作文倘使还用夹叙夹议，也要对叙的材料反复推敲，找出几例可以统一在一个观点里的材料，就材料的不同侧面来评析议论，最后上升归结出恰当切题、言之有物的中心。

三、文章表达的提高——点睛生花

好的文笔追求更高效率、更多意蕴。描述中就渗透情思与评析，这是较高水平的表达。一般的叙议分段，也应注意所叙材料紧贴自己的议论，议论应采取逐层推进，前后分界，避免相互缠绕。但又必须前后连贯，形成一个整体。在文章中一定写好精心组织的关键议论，努力使文章多处呈现运用一定修辞的文采。

话题作文训练举例

话题作文的基本要求：话题作文还是要审题，所写内容必须在话题范围之内。“立意自定”，关键要读懂话题关键词的意旨，若给出导语提示，还应划出导语中包含归结的关键语词。一般初学者，首先要注意让这些关键词贯穿在自己作文的始终，统帅自己的文意。

规定“题目自拟”，一定不要用话题作标题。1、标题范围尽量要小，不要太大太泛;要合理出新，不落俗套。2、标题不能过长，可以采用副标题的方式对主标题加以限制。3、标题要含蓄，把思维蕴涵于形象的标题之中。