SAT作文：你也可以拿满分

Chapter I  SAT Essay Overview 1
What you need to know before you write 1
SAT essay is 25 minutes in length 1
Use pencil 2
Write legibly 2
No “right” or “wrong” answer to topic assignment 3
Who are the readers? 3
How are the essays graded? 4
What are the scoring criteria? 4
Scoring of 6 4
Scoring of 5 5
Scoring of 4 5
Scoring of 3 6
Scoring of 2 6
Scoring of 1 7
Scoring of 0 7Chapter II  7 tips to know for maximizing your score8
Tip one: Attitude decides everything
——be positive over negative 8
Tip two: Cultivate good reading habits
——take notes while reading 10
1. create a reading list 10
2. think while reading 11
3. take notes while reading 11
4. reading is pleasure 12
Tip three: Examples, examples and examples
——make a summary of example resource 13
1. make a list of examples 13
2. read the news 14
3. practice arguing by using examples 14
4. Vary the sources of examples 14
5. Can I use song or Harry Potter examples? 14
Tip four: Write long
——one and a half pages at least 15
Tip five: Use big words
——don’t go overwhelmed 16
1. use big words appropriately 16
Tip six: be direct
——avoid wordiness 19
Tip seven: Entertain your reader
——add fun to your essay 22
1. don’t be too personal 22
2. humor impresses readers 22Chapter III  8 steps for writing a good essay 23
Step one: Decide your position
——read the prompt carefully 24
Step two: Find examples
——two examples are fine, too 25
Step three: Write introductory paragraph
——state your position 26
Step four: Begin the body
——use examples to support your position 26
Step five: Write the conclusion
——you must close 27
Step six: Show variety in sentence structure 28
1. Vary the rhythm by alternating short and long sentences.28
Vary sentence openings. 29
Step seven: Diversity in word choice 30
Step eight: Check and polish
——revise for grammatical and writing faults 33Chapter IV  9 SAT Essay Topics and Essay Sample Explanation34
Section I: Modern Society Issues 34
Topic 1: Is apathy a problem in today’s society? 34
Topic 2: Is the world changing for the better? 41
Topic 3: Should modern society be criticized for beingmaterialistic? 46
Section II: Technology “Advancement” 50
Topic 1: Do the benefits of technology always outweigh the costs?50
Topic 2: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarilymake
them better? 54
Topic 3: Have modern advancements truly improved the quality ofpeople's lives? 58
Section III: Media and information 60
Topic 1: Do violence and immorality in the media make oursociety
more dangerous and immoral? 60
Topic 2: Do newspapers, magazines, TV, radios determine whatis
important to most people? 62
Section IV: Individuality and group 63
Topic 1: Is it always best to determine one’s own views of rightand wrong, or can we benefit from following the crowd? 63
Topic 2: Is there any value for people to belong only to a group orgroups
with which they have something in common? 67
Topic 3: Are organizations or groups most successful when theirmembers
pursue individual wishes and goals? 69
Section V: Honesty 71
Topic 1: Are people bound to tell the truth at all times, or arethere situations
in which it is better to lie or tell only partial truths? 71
Topic 2: Can deception - pretending that something is true when itis
not - sometimes have good results? 74
Topic 3: Do circumstances determine whether or not we should tellthe truth? 77
Section VI: Education and knowledge 79
Topic 1: Is education primarily the result of influences other thanschool? 79
Topic 2: Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit? 81
Section VII: Success and adversity 85
Topic 1: Can success be disastrous? 85
Topic 2: Is striving to achieve a goal always the best course ofaction,
or should people give up if they are not making progress? 88
Topic 3: Is it more important to do work that one finds fulfillingor
work that pays well? 94
Section VIII: Making decisions 96
Topic 1: What two options are the most difficult to choose between?96
Topic 2: Are people best defined by what they do? 100
Section IX: Others 102
Topic 1: Does fame bring happiness, or are people who are notfamous
more likely to be happy? 102
Topic 2: Do incidents from the past continue to influence thepresent? 104Chapter V  Example sources for SAT 107
Section I: Law of life 108
Buddha’s teaching 108
Three fables 108
What you should know about life 109
Section II: Historical documents and speeches 110
United States Declaration of Independence (Adopted in Congress 4July 1776) 110
The Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863) 113
I have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. (August 28, 1963)114
Blood, Sweat, and Tears, by Winston Churchill (May 13, 1940)118
William Faulkner on accepting Nobel Prize in Literature (December10, 1950) 120
Section III: Philosophers and thinkers 121
Laozi 121
Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) 122
Socrates (469 BC-399 BC) 123
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 125
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) 127
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 128
Section IV: Artists 129
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) 129
Michelangelo (1475-1564) 130
Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) 132
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 133
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) 134
Section V: Authors 135
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) 135
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 135
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 136
Mark Twain (1835-1910) 137
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) 138
Jules Verne (1828-1905) 139
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 140
Section VI: Humanitarians 141
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) 141
Eleanor Roosevelt(1884-1962) 141
Section VII: Scientists and inventors 142
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 142
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 143
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 144
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) 145
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 146
Thomas Edison (1847-1931) 146
Marie Curie (1867-1934) 147
Section VIII: Leaders 148
Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC) 148
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869--1948) 149
George Washington (1732-1799) 150
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 152
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 153
Section IX: Businessmen 154
The du Pont Family 154
Henry Ford (1863--1947) 154