[英语考试]SAT Essay结构与范例 Essay Formats and Sample.docVIP

Essay Formats FORMAT I: the one-example essay Select one suitable illustrative example from your personal experience, or your reading, or knowledge of current affairs, history, science etc. and use this as the basis for a discussion of the topic. The example should be specific and ‘real’ rather than invented. It is best to avoid religion or politics or anything controversial. There is no word limit but a limited space is provided. The space you have to fill is approximately one and a half sides of A4 paper. The space is sufficient to write a five-paragraph essay. You will have to write in pencil. Format of the essay: Paragraph 1: Introduction Try to create interest in the topic.The introduction can be general but must include a thesis statement to point the reader in the right direction. Paragraph 2: Part I of the example Describe the situation and cover about half the “example” here. Paragraph 3: Part II of the example Finish the “example”. Paragraph 4: Discussion/analysis Explain what your example shows. Extract the conclusions/moral lessons to show how it supports your thesis. Paragraph 5: General conclusion Show how the example leads to more general conclusions about the topic. (If possible, relate to material from the introduction to round the essay off.) Sample essay 1 is an essay that uses this format One of the memorable images from Eisenstein’s classic silent film on the Russian Revolution is the toppling of a statue. The destruction of the statue symbolizes the throwing out of the old order along with its heroes and replacing it with a new. Considering this human tendency to ‘ring out the old and ring in the new’ it is surprising that any heroic figures from the past survive in the history books, but they do. There are some heroes who do not get erased from the pages. One of my personal all-time heroes is Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. At a time when women were not allowed to enter the University of Warsaw, her home city,