GRE作文改革后对argument写作所造成的变化_GRE写作

GRE作文改革后对argument写作所造成的变化

　　3. 评价本身是一个中性的词，包括正反两方面：评价一个事物，可以说它好，也可以说它坏。因此我们建议，在写这类Argument的时候，不仅要像在旧GRE中那样讨论哪些回答/证据可能导致作者的结论不成立或得到削弱，也要讨论哪些回答/证据可以加强作者的结论。在前面引述的最后一种instructions中，更是明确地提到了这一点：explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument。我们觉得这表明新GRE的Argument写作要求一个更客观中立的角度，而不像旧GRE中那样完全批判式地指出原文的结论如何不靠谱。

　　罗嗦了这么多，其实要点只有两个：批判要针对具体回答/证据的情况，兼顾正反两方面的回答/证据。上面的原理性阐述难免枯燥，下面我们给出一个具体例子，通过新旧GRE写法对比，让大家对evaluate类Argument写法的印象更具体。北极鹿的Argument相信很多同学都遇到过，其原文如下：

　　Arctic deer live on islands in Canadas arctic regions. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of the year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the purported decline in deer populations is the result of the deers being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea.