创新英语作文大赛第六届优秀作文选登

Directions: Some people maintain that universities are the best place for young people to receive higher education; other people believe that young people can be equally educated by taking correspondence courses or going to evening classes and open universities in their spare time.

Write an article of about 300 words in which you compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of formal university education and informal higher education. Which do you think is more effective and desirable? Support your argument with appropriate examples or illustrations.

命题思路：

本试题要求学生对比高等教育的两种主要形式：正规的大学课堂教育与函授、夜大学、电视大学等业余的非正规高等教育。学生必须在对比权衡两种不同模式的利弊后，阐述自己的观点，并有适当的例证。就题目所涉及的内容而言，考生比较熟悉，因为高等教育是与他们最贴近的现实。这样可以在一定程度上保证本次写作考试的信度，确保学生不至于因为思路障碍，无话可说而影响英语写作。从组织结构而言，本试题是典型的”对比型”作文，能够比较有效地考察学生的逻辑思维能力、观点表达能力以及运用适当的语言形式来实现转折、衔接、连贯等语言能力。

Informal Higher Education Serves Better

姓名 黄沁 江苏省南京市南京师大附中 学校 高二（13）班级 准考证号

0413

Although most students are still fighting for the diploma in universities after graduation from high school, it has been a clear trend that more and more students choose to start their working career earlier and receive informal higher education, which in my opinion, serves better to build more competition (competitive) and suitable personal abilities.

Informal higher education offers better opportunities to adapt to social life for students, and help them understand better the reality of their social community and responsibilities they are to take. Compared with those who spend entirely their time in the (on) campus, students who take evening classes could contact with more people, develop their communication skills and social behaviors during working hours. They know better how cruel and realistic the society is and that it is your power and

capabilities that only speak. They understand and adapt better to the pressure of life’s difficulties which in universities could hardly be realized.

Secondly, after experiencing real working life, these (those) who attend

correspondence courses would know better what kind of knowledge and abilities they must master, which definitely help them in future advancement and career choices. Suppose you’re a graduate from high school and become an assist of a car repairing

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