《盜夢空間》與GRE寫作之間不得不說的關系
Inception是我近3年看的最給力的電影,構思之精巧令人拍案。我憑著職業本能想到了GRE寫作當中最困擾中國考生的一個部分那就是Issue和Inception之間的關系。現在和大家分享和切磋一下:
GRE issue 評分標準無非一個字概括complexity.
托福作文是傻瓜作文,四六級那個不是作文是翻譯。之所以說托福作文的是簡單的,我們舉一個例子:
TOEFL作文:學生到底受老師影響多還是受同學影響多?
首先,一般托福作文要有一邊倒的傾向立場,然后稍微做讓步,這樣能把重點凸顯出來。
第二,論證過程極為簡單粗暴:
In my opinion, teachers have more influence on students, because it is teachers who have the knowledge, which plays an important part in personal development of students. For example, Socrates uses questioning and his dialectic way of thinking to inspire his students to think independently. It is hard to imagine the achievement of Plato would be like if Socrates were a mere snob who braggers about the abundant knowledge he possesses rather than enlighten Platos critical thinking aptitude. On the other hand, the classmates of the same age cannot offer better understanding of the world to one and another, and therefore, it is impossible to replace teachers function in the pass-on of knowledge.
以上文字,本人竊以為,托福作文拿一個滿分略少不是什么大問題。但是仔細一看,論證思路極其簡單,老師知道知識,知識對于個人發展很重要,同學之間知識儲備差不多,所以,同學影響和老師影響相比,老師更牛。為了證明這個簡單粗暴的理論,作者還給出了漂亮的論據,搬出了古希臘先賢蘇格拉底和柏拉圖作為佐證。文字迤邐,字字珠璣。給一般的托福寫作老師看,還真挑不出什么毛病。
這個就好比是《暮光之城》。同樣是好萊塢的大片,但相比Inception便是徹底的爛片。為什么?故事情節極其簡單粗暴。首先,一看Belle出場,那雙苦澀的雙眼,就知道她要糾結,最是那一低頭的嬌羞,一看就知道是雄性動物都躲不過她那雙可憐楚楚的雙眼。你開頭,我就猜結尾,愛情至上,執子之手,與子偕老。主題句有了,就是太俗。之后,男人都挺著發達的胸肌,一個開X60沃爾沃,青面卻不獠牙,一個騎著摩托說:I am hotter. 然后視覺動畫也有了,苦情愛情也有了,經典的愛情橋段也有了,凝視,側臉吻,一切的一切,都能夠為主題服務,但是不得不講,看這個電影,口味重的女生是為了看肌肉給力男,口味輕最近又感情挫敗的女生是為了彌補心靈創傷,男人多半陪女人看。但不管多么不一樣,我們都是知道故事結局的,口水要流,眼淚也有,趁機遞上紙巾,唯獨不動的是腦子。
Inception不一樣!給大家展現一下,什么叫做GRE的complexity。
同樣的題目,我們用GRE的寫法來看。
To begin with, students, if willing to accept the positive influence from their teachers, will benefit a lot from the teaching. Judging from the unanimously agreed professional requirement of a teacher, not only academically must he or she excel but also virtuously so that the treasure of human civilization can last and prosper. Yet, if this major premise is undermined--that is--some teachers are not academically or virtuously excellent, students should recognize the teachers contamination of knowledge and morality and spare no effort to defend the intellectual territory of rationality and integrity. One of the most famous disparity of philosophy is the confrontation between Plato, the teacher, and Aristotle, the student, marked by the saying, I love not Plato less but Truth more. Aristotle challenged Platos idealistic theory of the essence of the Universe by stating that individual and earthly existence are prior to the concept in mind. Let us leave the right-or-wrong judgement between Plato and Aristotle to the snobbish philosophers, and focus on Aristotles inheritance of critical thinking and his steadfastness of his own realm of knowledge.
各位允許你們羨慕一下我,就像我羨慕諾蘭的新作一樣。有沒有發現Inception最大的特點是解構現實,重建虛無,模糊真理和虛無的邊界。真實不一定存在,虛無并不是不能感知。
GRE和諾蘭要的是一樣的,沒有真理永遠存在于相對之中,關鍵是對于場域的劃定。所以任何一個GRE的argumentation要保證去驗證概念,和討論概念與概念之間的種種可能存在的關系。比如,我寫的段落,首先用if開始。if本身就是一個上下浮動的蹺蹺板。如果老師優秀,學生樂于接受這樣的教誨,受到的影響必然是積極的。
請注意,我引入了三個概念,老師,學生,影響。然后我首先對于老師這個概念開始解構,老師有好壞,對于好老師,不言而喻,但對于某些老師,我們要學會反抗。在解構這個概念的同時,學生作為連帶概念開始被喚起主觀性,學生需要辨識和反抗。而反抗作為新的概念又會被檢視,反抗的前提是,對于某些知識的繼承。
有沒有感覺像Inception多層夢的重疊,第一層,大家先去綁架了Fischer,然后再入一層夢,引入新概念,讓Fischer知道他在夢中,開始第二步的解構,這次解構是去解構Fischer的夢里的他叔叔的概念。哇,刺激的不得了,越解構發現對于問題的探討越復雜,但是往往也就越深刻。GRE 雖然是對statement同意反對的考察,但是隨著我們對于概念的解構分析,同意反對也變得是在場域中才能成立的命題。
一言蔽之,GRE考的是思想。思想是概念和邏輯的關系。概念應該解構,邏輯應該研究關系,這樣,思維就不再是二維平面的對錯,也不是三維平面的對錯對,而是n維平面,各成一體的自我存在。就像夢一樣,總是有道理,其實換了更高的維度看,反而不清不楚了。
當然,Inception的給力之處還是有好萊塢的其他常態,比如槍戰,追車,裸露等等。就好比我寫的東西也注意句式,用詞還有例子。這個是賣座電影的必備要素,畢竟很多人去看電影是因為萊昂納多那張帥帥的臉龐,從一個正太說you jump, I jump,變成了一個蜀黍,說you jump and I watch.
Inception是我近3年看的最給力的電影,構思之精巧令人拍案。我憑著職業本能想到了GRE寫作當中最困擾中國考生的一個部分那就是Issue和Inception之間的關系。現在和大家分享和切磋一下:
GRE issue 評分標準無非一個字概括complexity.
托福作文是傻瓜作文,四六級那個不是作文是翻譯。之所以說托福作文的是簡單的,我們舉一個例子:
TOEFL作文:學生到底受老師影響多還是受同學影響多?
首先,一般托福作文要有一邊倒的傾向立場,然后稍微做讓步,這樣能把重點凸顯出來。
第二,論證過程極為簡單粗暴:
In my opinion, teachers have more influence on students, because it is teachers who have the knowledge, which plays an important part in personal development of students. For example, Socrates uses questioning and his dialectic way of thinking to inspire his students to think independently. It is hard to imagine the achievement of Plato would be like if Socrates were a mere snob who braggers about the abundant knowledge he possesses rather than enlighten Platos critical thinking aptitude. On the other hand, the classmates of the same age cannot offer better understanding of the world to one and another, and therefore, it is impossible to replace teachers function in the pass-on of knowledge.
以上文字,本人竊以為,托福作文拿一個滿分略少不是什么大問題。但是仔細一看,論證思路極其簡單,老師知道知識,知識對于個人發展很重要,同學之間知識儲備差不多,所以,同學影響和老師影響相比,老師更牛。為了證明這個簡單粗暴的理論,作者還給出了漂亮的論據,搬出了古希臘先賢蘇格拉底和柏拉圖作為佐證。文字迤邐,字字珠璣。給一般的托福寫作老師看,還真挑不出什么毛病。
這個就好比是《暮光之城》。同樣是好萊塢的大片,但相比Inception便是徹底的爛片。為什么?故事情節極其簡單粗暴。首先,一看Belle出場,那雙苦澀的雙眼,就知道她要糾結,最是那一低頭的嬌羞,一看就知道是雄性動物都躲不過她那雙可憐楚楚的雙眼。你開頭,我就猜結尾,愛情至上,執子之手,與子偕老。主題句有了,就是太俗。之后,男人都挺著發達的胸肌,一個開X60沃爾沃,青面卻不獠牙,一個騎著摩托說:I am hotter. 然后視覺動畫也有了,苦情愛情也有了,經典的愛情橋段也有了,凝視,側臉吻,一切的一切,都能夠為主題服務,但是不得不講,看這個電影,口味重的女生是為了看肌肉給力男,口味輕最近又感情挫敗的女生是為了彌補心靈創傷,男人多半陪女人看。但不管多么不一樣,我們都是知道故事結局的,口水要流,眼淚也有,趁機遞上紙巾,唯獨不動的是腦子。
Inception不一樣!給大家展現一下,什么叫做GRE的complexity。
同樣的題目,我們用GRE的寫法來看。
To begin with, students, if willing to accept the positive influence from their teachers, will benefit a lot from the teaching. Judging from the unanimously agreed professional requirement of a teacher, not only academically must he or she excel but also virtuously so that the treasure of human civilization can last and prosper. Yet, if this major premise is undermined--that is--some teachers are not academically or virtuously excellent, students should recognize the teachers contamination of knowledge and morality and spare no effort to defend the intellectual territory of rationality and integrity. One of the most famous disparity of philosophy is the confrontation between Plato, the teacher, and Aristotle, the student, marked by the saying, I love not Plato less but Truth more. Aristotle challenged Platos idealistic theory of the essence of the Universe by stating that individual and earthly existence are prior to the concept in mind. Let us leave the right-or-wrong judgement between Plato and Aristotle to the snobbish philosophers, and focus on Aristotles inheritance of critical thinking and his steadfastness of his own realm of knowledge.
各位允許你們羨慕一下我,就像我羨慕諾蘭的新作一樣。有沒有發現Inception最大的特點是解構現實,重建虛無,模糊真理和虛無的邊界。真實不一定存在,虛無并不是不能感知。
GRE和諾蘭要的是一樣的,沒有真理永遠存在于相對之中,關鍵是對于場域的劃定。所以任何一個GRE的argumentation要保證去驗證概念,和討論概念與概念之間的種種可能存在的關系。比如,我寫的段落,首先用if開始。if本身就是一個上下浮動的蹺蹺板。如果老師優秀,學生樂于接受這樣的教誨,受到的影響必然是積極的。
請注意,我引入了三個概念,老師,學生,影響。然后我首先對于老師這個概念開始解構,老師有好壞,對于好老師,不言而喻,但對于某些老師,我們要學會反抗。在解構這個概念的同時,學生作為連帶概念開始被喚起主觀性,學生需要辨識和反抗。而反抗作為新的概念又會被檢視,反抗的前提是,對于某些知識的繼承。
有沒有感覺像Inception多層夢的重疊,第一層,大家先去綁架了Fischer,然后再入一層夢,引入新概念,讓Fischer知道他在夢中,開始第二步的解構,這次解構是去解構Fischer的夢里的他叔叔的概念。哇,刺激的不得了,越解構發現對于問題的探討越復雜,但是往往也就越深刻。GRE 雖然是對statement同意反對的考察,但是隨著我們對于概念的解構分析,同意反對也變得是在場域中才能成立的命題。
一言蔽之,GRE考的是思想。思想是概念和邏輯的關系。概念應該解構,邏輯應該研究關系,這樣,思維就不再是二維平面的對錯,也不是三維平面的對錯對,而是n維平面,各成一體的自我存在。就像夢一樣,總是有道理,其實換了更高的維度看,反而不清不楚了。
當然,Inception的給力之處還是有好萊塢的其他常態,比如槍戰,追車,裸露等等。就好比我寫的東西也注意句式,用詞還有例子。這個是賣座電影的必備要素,畢竟很多人去看電影是因為萊昂納多那張帥帥的臉龐,從一個正太說you jump, I jump,變成了一個蜀黍,說you jump and I watch.