GRE写作常见指令解读

GRE写作中Analyze an Issue是类似于托福the Independent Writing Task的写作分项。但是，并不完全等同，并且要求更多也更高。首先，Analyze an Issue这个写作分项有具体的写作指令（要求），考生的写作需要充分回应指令的要求。并且，指令的类型不少，有6种，也就是说考生需在遇到不同的指令时，有不同的应对。下面小编要为大家带来的就是GRE写作常见指令解读。

这是非常常见的一种指令：

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

指令中关键的部分已经用斜体字和黄色高亮标出。这个指令的措辞复杂，直译出来的意思不容易让人理解。其实解读出来的意思就是“给出的论题为什么对或者为什么不对”。

于是，我们发现这个指令是一个要求不高的指令，也就是说我们正常论证给出的statement的对错（也就是我们同意或者不同意）即可。

我们以一个题目为例：

People’s behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.

假设我们我们的立场为：【Agree】，老师写了一个作文的梗概，如下：

[开头段落]

Taking a dualistic view, people’s behavior is determined by both the internal forces and the external forces. However, such political correctness—taking a balanced view to look at an issue—may be unadoptable in evaluating this statement. In many realities, external forces, forces not of people’s own making, are the decisive factors in the ways people behave.

[主体部分第①段]

论证“人的社会属性（人与人的关联）”。

This statement demonstrates a clear awareness that people are not independent individuals but socially connected with each other. This relation determines people’s behavior, and the behavior is necessarily interactive, responding to others’ mind, language and acts. Only if we agree with the idea underlying this statement can we use reason, as is opposed to emotion, to understand many charitable actions. 接下来可以通过现实的例子去印证道理。

[主体部分第②段]

论证“人的内因不足”。

This statement is right also because it displays the courage to admit humans’ lack of self-discipline, and prior to that, it shows consciousness of this defect of humans. Those who are opposed to this statement may fall in the dangerous idealism that humans are able to regulate their behavior by their faith and will power. 接下来可以通过现实的例子去印证道理。

[主体部分第③段]

论证“人与自然的关联”。

This statement also sees humans’ close relation to the natural and physical world, and the material surroundings also largely determine our actions.

接下来可以通过现实的例子去印证道理。

[结尾段落]

In light of the above, the statement actually adopts the view of materialism, which has been widely accepted. When we recognize that people’s behavior is largely subject to external forces and conditions, we are not yielding to our surroundings but judging our incapability in perspective, and we would therefore not be the fool that overestimates our own strength but make the external our advantage.

通过这个梗概，大家可能发现回应这中指令的作文确实不需要什么特别的设计，就是按部就班的方式进行讨论就好。

但是，大家应该也发现文中多处被黄色高亮的部分，是不是有什么说法？

是的。我们发现这些高亮部分都是针对statement的评价。也就是说老师在范文中总是会首先刻意论述statement做了什么和做对了什么（如果是“不同意”，就是论述statement做错了什么），然后才去讨论论题内容（即People’s behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.）本身。这种写作方法是Issue任务中讨喜的，符合Issue任务的设定和要求。