首先,对于留学Assignment的写作,我们应当在心中明确的一点是,作为留学生对我们来说中文是我们的母语,虽然很努力的学习了英文,但是取得了如何高的国际英语水平认证分数,依旧无法可以达到那些本土在英语环境中的外国人的英语水平。他们日常的思考方式完全是英式的,所以写出来的文字提现了他们西方人的文学休养和素质,即所谓的英语文学美感,但对于我们来说,面对语言交流,给出的第一反应还会是中文形式的,然后再在脑中经过转换成英文表述出来,所以我们写的东西始终不会像原始的英文那么纯正,相对来说比较呆板,只是表达出了必要的含义而已。
First of all,for the writing of overseas assignment,we should be clear in our mind that Chinese is our mother tongue for us as overseas students.Although we have studied English hard,we still can not reach the English level of those native foreigners in the English environment after obtaining high international English level certification scores.Their daily way of thinking is entirely English,so the words they write reflect their westerners'literary recuperation and quality,which is the so-called aesthetic feeling of English literature.But for us,the first response to language communication will be in Chinese,and then it will be translated into English in our minds.Therefore,our writing will never be as pure as the original English,which is relatively rigid,It just expresses the necessary meaning.
所以中国留学生的英文Assignment的写作在一个学期中会面对很多门学科Assignment的压力,那么如何在Assignment中准确的表达自己的思想,完成的Assignment能符合老师的意愿,把握住得分点,高分通过,成了我们需要探讨和研究的主旨。至于文字的优美度和文学性,在求学阶段的我们或许没有那么多的精力去深入涉及。
Therefore,the English assignment writing of Chinese overseas students will face the pressure of assignment in many disciplines in a semester,so how to accurately express their ideas in the assignment,and how to complete the assignment in accordance with the wishes of teachers,grasp the scoring points,and pass with high marks has become the main theme of our discussion and research.As for the elegance and literariness of the characters,we may not have so much energy to go deep into them when we were studying.
对于一篇英文Assignment来说,要保证其完整度和优异的质量,以及考虑到导师所给出的如时间、参考资料等各方面的条件限制,必须要有一套完整的适合自身情况的写作方法,这是需要通过不断学习和写作所累积而成的。下面我将介绍我所整理出的一套经验方法和实用技巧,希望能对广大留学生有所帮助:
For an English assignment,in order to ensure its integrity and excellent quality,and in consideration of the limitations of time,reference materials and other aspects given by the tutor,it is necessary to have a complete set of writing methods that are suitable for your own situation,which is accumulated through continuous learning and writing.Now I will introduce a set of experience methods and practical skills that I have compiled,hoping to help the majority of foreign students:
(1)仔细阅读导师给出的Assignment相关要求
(2)抓住Assignment的中心思想
(3)分析导师的意愿、爱好
(4)资料查阅
(5)把握灵感,分段、部分来写
(6)Assignment整合、排版、收尾
(7)复查、比对
(1)Carefully read the relevant requirements of Assignment given by the tutor
(2)Grasp the central idea of Assignment
(3)Analyze the wishes and hobbies of the tutor
(4)Data access
(5)Grasp inspiration and write in sections
(6)Assignment integration,typesetting and closing
(7)Review and comparison
一.仔细阅读导师给出的Assignment相关要求
1、Carefully read the relevant requirements of Assignment given by the tutor
一篇Assignment所涉及到的相关要求,这是一篇Assignment拿到手后所要考虑的重中之重,也是今后这篇Assignment写作过程中的指导性文件。一般导师对于Assignment的要求会包含Assignment的字数,题材,排版规定,交稿方式,完成期限等。但是对于国外大学的Assignment相关要求,普遍来说,Assignment的题材是具有选择性的:一篇Assignment要求中,导师会给出几个可选题目,同时给出一个实例,要求你选择其中一个题目对这个实例进行分析。
An assignment involves relevant requirements,which is the most important thing to consider after getting the assignment,and is also a guiding document in the future assignment writing process.Generally,the tutor's requirements for assignment will include the number of words,subject matter,typesetting regulations,submission method,completion deadline,etc.However,for the assignment related requirements of foreign universities,generally speaking,the theme of assignment is selective:in an assignment request,the tutor will give several optional topics and an example,asking you to choose one of the topics to analyze the example.
许多学生在拿到Assignment相关要求后,往往只是粗略的看了下这些条例,然后选择一个相对容易写的题目,马上就开始投入写作。但实际情况是,当你已经花了很多功夫写了很多内容后再反过去看Assignment要求,会发现要求所规定的Assignment写作范围以及实例的具体情况与自己所写的部分不搭架,或者所写的偏离了Assignment给出的相关要求,偏偏这时候又发现时间所剩不多了,Assignment却又写跑题了,然后就只能焦头烂额的修改甚至重写,写作的激情也被浇灭了。造成这种情况的原因其实是多方面的,一是可能由于学生本身的不细心;二是全英文的Assignment相关要求,没有经过仔细的推敲和研究,光凭阅读一遍可能无法领略其中真正的含义和导师所想要得到的东西。
After receiving the assignment related requirements,many students often just read these regulations roughly,then choose a topic that is relatively easy to write,and immediately begin to write.However,the reality is that when you have spent a lot of time writing a lot of content and then go back to the assignment requirements,you will find that the scope of assignment writing and the specific situation of the examples specified in the requirements do not match the part you wrote,or the writing deviates from the relevant requirements given by the assignment.At this time,you will find that there is not much time left,but the assignment writing is off the topic again,Then I had to revise or even rewrite it,and my passion for writing was also extinguished.In fact,there are many reasons for this situation.First,the students themselves may not be careful;The second is the requirements related to assignment in English.Without careful consideration and research,you may not be able to understand the true meaning and what the tutor wants by reading it once.
二.抓住Assignment的中心思想
2、Grasp the central idea of Assignment
正如国内大学的Assignment一样,每篇英文Assignment也有其中心思想,即Assignment所要表达的内容。在英文Assignment中,这个中心思想可能是广义的,多方面的,要把握起来相对比较困难。这要通过对Assignment要求的仔细研究而得出,如果自己把握不住Assignment的中心思想和写作方向,建议可以和导师以及同学讨论。要切忌,偏题是大忌!宁愿多花几分钟,就算是一个小时去研究Assignment的中心思想,也不可胡乱开始写作。
Just like the assignments of domestic universities,each English assignment also has its central idea,that is,the content of the assignment.In English Assignment,this central idea may be broad and multifaceted,which is relatively difficult to grasp.This is achieved through careful study of the requirements of Assignment.If you can't grasp the central idea and writing direction of Assignment,you can discuss it with your tutor and classmates.Don't be biased!It is better to spend a few more minutes,even if it is an hour to study the central idea of Assignment,than to start writing at random.
三.分析导师的意愿、爱好
3、Analyze the wishes and hobbies of the tutor
在国外留学的留学生应该都知道,国外的大学教育,有少部分的课程可能是通过大课堂的形式向学生们提供授教,但是绝大部分学科的学习过程是通过小课堂、小组授教的形式来完成的。目前的形势分析表明,很大一部分留学生在国外读的是私立大学,于是乎他们所面对的几乎全部都是小课堂的教育模式,也就是说在一个教室上课的学生可能只有10到20人,导师将更多、更好的和每一个学生接触。另外,对于国外大学教师以及教授的素质,不得不说高于国内很多大学,他们会去真正认识和了解他所教育的每一个学生,在每一门学科的学习过程当中,任何一个学生都不会是打酱油的,导师随时都在关注着你。但是,众所周知,老师都喜欢好学生、有能力的学生的,所以,导师对于每一个学生的要求也就不一样,希望学生所能取得的成绩也不同。至于国外大学对于Assignment的评分,不仅看重你的Assignment内容,也要考虑到导师的意愿,要知道西方人的情感因素往往会影响到我们的分数,而不像国内的Assignment评定中规中矩,遵循条条框框。
International students studying abroad should know that a small part of the courses of foreign university education may be taught to students in the form of large classrooms,but most of the learning process of disciplines is completed in the form of small classes and group teaching.The current situation analysis shows that a large part of international students are studying in private universities abroad,so almost all of them are facing the small classroom education model,that is,only 10 to 20 students may have classes in one classroom,and the instructors will have more and better contact with each student.In addition,the quality of foreign university teachers and professors has to be said to be higher than that of many domestic universities.They will really know and understand every student they educate.In the learning process of each discipline,no student will play a role in soy sauce.The tutor is always watching you.However,as we all know,teachers like good and capable students.Therefore,teachers have different requirements for each student and hope that students can achieve different results.As for the rating of assignment by foreign universities,we should not only attach importance to your assignment content,but also take into account the wishes of our tutors.We should know that the emotional factors of Westerners often affect our scores,unlike the domestic assignment evaluation,which is standardized and follows rules and regulations.
在这种前提下,作为留学生,多跟导师交流便成了一大重点,这在英文Assignment写作的部分也是具有重大意义的。我们应该在学习过程中多和老师交流,了解这个老师他的爱好,要去迎合他,讨好他,在Assignment中按照他的意愿和爱好去写:写他爱看的,用他喜欢的方式去写。
Under this premise,as an international student,it becomes a major focus to communicate with the tutor,which is also of great significance in the part of English Assignment writing.We should communicate with the teacher more in the learning process,understand the teacher's hobbies,cater to him,please him,and write according to his wishes and hobbies in the Assignment:write what he likes to see,and write in the way he likes.
四.资料查阅
4、Data access
资料的收集和查阅对于英文Assignment的写作至关重要,合理有效的收集和查阅资料将对Assignment的写作提供很大程度上的帮助,并能简化写作的难度。一般在Assignment的相关要求中,会明确表明出此Assignment参考资料的范围,包括书籍,杂志,课本,随堂资料以及网络资源。这就需要学生去仔细参考研究,翻阅大量的资料,找到与Assignment相关的,对Assignment有帮助的内容。对于一篇Assignment的整个写作过程,我建议花80%的时间来查找和整理相关资料,剩余的20%时间留给写作,这样写作时将得心应手,顺顺利利写完收工。
The collection and access of materials are crucial to the writing of English Assignment.Reasonable and effective collection and access of materials will help the writing of Assignment to a large extent and simplify the difficulty of writing.Generally,in the relevant requirements of Assignment,the scope of reference materials for this Assignment will be clearly indicated,including books,magazines,textbooks,classroom materials and network resources.This requires students to carefully refer to research,read a large number of materials,and find the content related to Assignment that is helpful to Assignment.For the whole writing process of an assignment,I suggest that 80%of the time should be spent searching and sorting out relevant materials,and the remaining 20%should be reserved for writing,so that the writing will be easy and smooth.
在资料的查阅方面,也有需要注意的部分和相关技巧,这主要是针对网络资源的应用,恰巧这又是留学生最喜欢采用的方式。随着网络的迅速发展,一些大型的网站给我们的资料查阅提供了相当方便的途径,于是乎从网上的复制黏贴,抄袭成了许多留学生写Assignment的主要手段,导师对这点也是相当忌讳的,从而可能会导致整篇Assignment的不合格。“plagiarism”正是为了预防这种情况而产生的一款网络软件,以至于许多大学在对Assignment的要求中会注明Assignment需要提供“plagiarism”的检测比例,并且一些出名的网站也被明令禁止使用,诸如Wikipedia等。面对这种情况,我们可以采取以退为进的战略方针,即在这些网站中查阅相关资料后理解并消化有关内容,然后以自己的语言来表达上述内容,并在Assignment结尾的“reference”部分对这些内容进行来源标注,技巧性的把这些内容的来源“转移”到一些相关杂志上,让导师认为我们并不是从网络上抄袭下来的,而是从书籍中引用的。这里有一点小技巧:我们虽然知道导师面对大量的Assignment批改工作,可能不会仔细对照我们的资料来源,但是不怕一万、只怕万一,如果导师心血来潮去检查呢;或者导师知识面极广,酷爱阅读,熟悉各种有关杂志书籍呢?面对这种情况,我们可以利用我们是留学生的潜在优势,即在所引用资料的来源部分填上中国国内的书籍和杂志名称,这样一来,外国老师就不可能去对照研究了,如果导师还是要去细究,那我们只能对天感叹,果断膜拜这位钻研帝了。
In terms of data access,there are also some parts and related skills that need attention,mainly for the application of network resources,which is also the favorite way for foreign students.With the rapid development of the Internet,some large websites provide us with a very convenient way to consult our information.As a result,copying and pasting from the Internet has become the main means for many foreign students to write assignments,which is also a taboo for instructors,which may lead to disqualification of the entire assignment."Plagiarism"is a network software created to prevent this situation,so many universities will indicate in their requirements for Assignment that Assignment needs to provide the detection proportion of"plagiarism",and some famous websites,such as Wikipedia,are also explicitly prohibited from using.In the face of this situation,we can adopt the strategic policy of"taking retreat as progress",that is,we can understand and digest relevant content after consulting relevant materials on these websites,and then express the above content in our own language,and mark the source of these content in the"reference"section at the end of the Assignment,and skillfully"transfer"the source of these content to some relevant magazines,Let the tutor think that we did not copy from the network,but quoted from books.Here is a little tip:Although we know that the tutor may not carefully compare our data sources when facing a large number of assignment correction work,we are not afraid of ten thousand,just in case,if the tutor has a whim to check;Or the tutor has a wide range of knowledge,loves reading,and is familiar with various magazines and books?In the face of this situation,we can take advantage of the potential advantage that we are international students,that is,fill in the names of Chinese books and magazines in the source part of the cited materials.In this way,it is impossible for foreign teachers to make a comparative study.If the tutor still wants to make a careful study,we can only sigh at the sky and resolutely worship this research emperor.
五.把握灵感,分段、部分来写
5、Grasp inspiration and write in sections
在Assignment写作的过程中,对灵感的把握也是很重要的。曾经也是留学生的我对国外的留学生活深有体会:面对学习和生活的压力,孤身一人在异国求学的环境,心里总是会考虑到很多在国内不会顾及的问题,而导致“心不静,理还乱”。绝大多数的留学生对于Assignment的写作都有一种习惯,即当一篇Assignment在学期开始时布置下来后并不上心去写作,甚至就放着不管,直到快要交了才急急忙忙的开始写,不分日夜的奋斗,所有的脑细胞和构思灵感都在短短几天时间内被压榨一空。其实这已经成为了一种风气,我不能也不想去假惺惺的倡导要改变或者批判这种做法,因为我曾经也是其中一员,但是我能做的是基于这种情况,针对这种氛围提出关于Assignment写作方面的建议。
In the process of assignment writing,it is also important to grasp the inspiration.As a former international student,I have a deep understanding of the life abroad:facing the pressure of study and life,I always consider many problems that I would not take into account at home when studying alone in a foreign country,which leads to"restlessness of mind and confusion of reason".The vast majority of foreign students have a habit of writing assignments,that is,when an assignment is assigned at the beginning of the semester,they don't bother to write,or even leave it alone.They start writing in a hurry until it is about to be handed over.They struggle day and night,and all brain cells and ideas are squeezed out in just a few days.In fact,this has become a kind of atmosphere.I cannot and do not want to hypocritically advocate changing or criticizing this practice,because I was once one of them.But what I can do is to put forward suggestions on assignment writing based on this situation.
一篇Assignment到手,我建议应该花个几十分钟去详细研究和了解Assignment的相关要求和中心思想,知道这篇Assignment要写些什么以及写作的方向,如果有心的还可以查阅下相关资料,这并不一定要牵扯到写作过程的开始。接下来的整个学期,可能由于多方面原因,留学生会没有把心思放在Assignment的写作上,那么整个学期充足的时间都可以留给留学生去享受“安逸”的留学生活,但是经了过最初的对Assignment的了解,在留学生的脑海中必定会留下一个对Assignment较为清晰的印象。在留学生们为了学习生和活操劳的过程中,说不定哪天心血来潮就会产生对于这篇Assignment写作的灵感,并应该及时的把这部分灵感记录下来,从而完成整篇Assignment一部分的写作工作,当然这些是要建立在你对Assignment已经通过研究了解过了的基础上,灵感也正是来源于此。当Assignment快要上交时,你准备开始奋斗的时候,你会发现在整个学期中,你已经陆陆续续的写了不少,而且这些内容都是和Assignment有关的,有用的东西。接下来就可以直接进入下一阶段:Assignment的整合。
When I got an assignment,I suggested that I should spend tens of minutes to study and understand the relevant requirements and central ideas of the assignment in detail,know what to write about the assignment and the direction of writing.If you want to,you can also consult the relevant materials,which does not necessarily lead to the beginning of the writing process.In the following semester,for many reasons,the international students will not focus on the writing of Assignment,so they can have enough time to enjoy the"comfortable"life of studying abroad,but after the initial understanding of Assignment,they will certainly leave a clear impression of Assignment in their minds.In the process of studying and working hard for foreign students,they may have a sudden inspiration for the assignment writing one day,and they should record this inspiration in time to complete the writing of the whole assignment part.Of course,this is based on your understanding of the assignment through research,and the inspiration also comes from this.When the Assignment is about to be handed in and you are ready to start your struggle,you will find that you have written a lot continuously throughout the semester,and these contents are all useful things related to Assignment.Next,you can directly enter the next stage:the integration of Assignment.
六.Assignment整合、排版、收尾
6、Assignment integration,typesetting and closing
这部分的论述是要衔接第五点来的。在Assignment上交期限前,投入全力写作的过程中,之前对于灵感的捕捉和把握使得整篇Assignment已经存在多多少少的片段,并且这些片段都是基于Assignment的相关要求、中心思想、写作方向以及灵感应运而生的。要知道,在短时间内要写出高质量的英文Assignment写作相对于母语是中文的留学生们是具有很大挑战性和难度的,况且灵感不是逼的出来的,所以前期对灵感的把握能使得后期写作时我们能发现之前所写的一些部分和段落拥有很高的质量,那么接下来的工作相对于要全盘重头开始要简单很多。在这一阶段要做的便是整理这些零碎的部分和片段,对其修改和补充,赋予整篇Assignment完整性、顺序性和逻辑性。最后就是最另人激动的排版和收尾工作,因为大功就要告成啦!
This part of the discussion is to connect the fifth point.Before the deadline for submission of Assignment,in the process of devoting to writing,the previous capture and grasp of inspiration has led to more or less fragments of the whole Assignment,and these fragments are based on the relevant requirements,central ideas,writing direction and inspiration of Assignment.You should know that it is very challenging and difficult to write high-quality English assignments in a short period of time compared with foreign students whose mother tongue is Chinese.In addition,inspiration is not forced.Therefore,the early grasp of inspiration can enable us to find that some parts and paragraphs written before have high quality in later writing.Then the next work is much easier than starting from scratch.At this stage,what we need to do is to sort out these fragmented parts and fragments,modify and supplement them,and endow the whole assignment with integrity,sequence and logic.The last is the most exciting typesetting and finishing work,because the great work is about to be completed!
七.复查、比对
7、Review and comparison
当一篇Assignment完工后,应当对其进行通篇阅读,检查整篇Assignment是否有重大的逻辑性错误,如果有应加以修正。同时将自己的Assignment和同学的Assignment进行比对也是一种很有效的方法,能发现他人的优点和自己的不足,为本篇Assignment的写作以及为自己今后的Assignment写作累积经验,提供有效的可利用资源。
When an assignment is completed,it should be read through the whole assignment to check whether there are major logical errors in the whole assignment and correct them if any.At the same time,it is also a very effective way to compare your assignment with that of your classmates.You can find the advantages and disadvantages of others,accumulate experience for the writing of this assignment and your own assignment writing in the future,and provide effective and available resources.