SAT作文备考高分策略(上)_SAT写作

SAT作文备考高分策略(上)

　　You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below.

　　Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

　　Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present.

　　Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Ive Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

　　Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

　　The key to writing a good essay is to focus on the assignment, not the background information. You should know that every questions asks you to state an opinion and back it up with examples. Like a lawyer in court, the stronger your evidence, the greater your success.

　　3. As a writer of English as a foreign language, you should aim for including 2 examples, not 3 as many American students can do in the time allotted.

　　4. Organization is very important your essay should be at least 3 paragraphs and no more than 5 paragraphs. The first paragraph should be an introduction, paragraphs 2 and 3 should present your examples and the final paragraph provide a strong conclusion. Posing a question is a good way to end your essay.