下面就让小编来为大家介绍一下ACT写作改革的相关内容吧，大家要好好把握，看看到底哪些方面发生了变化，是变得容易还是复杂，进而为备考早日做好规划，希望能够给准备参加ACT考试的同学带来帮助。

　　一、新旧对比

　　明确了以上的新旧对比，我们来看看具体“变”在了哪里：

　　新版ACT写作给了三个perspective，并且重点要求分析自己的观点和给出观点之间的关系，即“explain the relationship between your perspective and those given”，perspectives就在那里，我们都必须分析，如何很好的组织好几个观点之间的逻辑结构和论证其存在的合理性，ACT的新作文考试更加看重研究(research)和证据(evidence)，这是一大难点，这也是为什么会多出10分钟的原因。但是换个角度去想，我们的观点里肯定会有和已给出perspective里相同的部分，这样也省去了我们一部分去头脑风暴搜肠刮肚观点的时间呢!

　　二、范文分析

　　Intelligent Machines

　　Many of the goods and services we depend on daily are now supplied by intelligent, automated machines rather than human beings. Robots build cars and other goods on assembly lines, where once there were human workers. Many of our phone conversations are now conducted not with people but with sophisticated technologies. We can now buy goods at a variety of stores without the help of a human cashier. Automation is generally seen as a sign of progress, but what is lost when we replace humans with machines? Given the accelerating variety and prevalence of intelligent machines, it is worth examining the implications and meaning of their presence in our lives.

　　Read and carefully consider these perspectives. Each suggests a particular way of thinking about the increasing presence of intelligent machines.

　　Perspective 1: What we lose with the replacement of people by machines is some part of our own humanity. Even our mundane daily encounters no longer require from us basic courtesy, respect, and tolerance for other people.

　　Perspective 2: Machines are good at low-skills, repetitive jobs, and at high-speed, extremely precise jobs. In both cases they work better than humans. This efficiency leads to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone.

　　Perspective 3: Intelligent machines challenge our long-standing ideas about what humans are or can be. This is good because it pushes both humans and machines toward new, unimagined possibilities.

　　Essay Task

　　Write a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the increasing presence of intelligent machines. In your essay, be sure to:

　　Analyze and evaluate the perspectives given

　　State and develop your own perspective on the issue

　　Explain the relationship between your perspective and those given

　　Your perspective may be in full agreement with any of the others, in partial agreement, or wholly different. Whatever the case, support your ideas with logical reasoning and detailed, persuasive examples.

　　接下来，我们一起来看一下官方给出的范文：

　　Intelligent machines, hardware created by human beings to liberate us from strenuous, have never been given so much attention since the era of Internet. Electronic appliances, smart phones or wearable devices have, in certain degree, brought people convenience, making them indispensable part in daily life. However, some critics still cast doubts on the potential threats hidden behind the scene. As far as I am concerned, human history has witnessed the glorious achievements thanks to the application of machinery.

　　Admittedly, the massive application of automation might put the apocalypse on humanity. Just as the saying goes, “To be human is to be humane”, the loss of humanity reveals in the return to the uncivilized nature of human brought by the massive, cold-hearted machines. As shown in the Gilded Age, industrialization took place rapidly with the introduction of new machinery and technologies. Thousands of canals, railroads and coal mines were built in United States. Accompanied with such changes was the gradual loss of human kindness in the tycoons in railroad, oil and steel industry. These people, who sought great fortune themselves, started to see workers only as means to the end of acquiring profits. Miners in the Northwest, for example, worked in the dark, toxic underground for more than ten hours, slept in slums at night and obtained wages insufficient to meet their basic needs. Such inhumane treatment of the industrial magnates did result in some extreme social turbulence such as the Haymarket Strike.

　　However, as seen in history, human beings always have the ability to adjust and examine their own deeds. The tycoons soon realized the brutality of money making. Andrew Carnegie, the leading figure in the steel industry, advocated the idea of social welfare in his book the Gospel of Wealth, stating that it’s the rich’s duty to ameliorate the living conditions of the poor in the society. Therefore, self-examination will compensate this change and readjust human beings to the basic tolerance and respect for others. Besides, the high efficiency brought by automation leads to the evergreen prosperity of human lives. Machinery, with its easy manipulation and high precision in productions, stimulates the growth of industry and agriculture and improves the lives of common people. Before the Industrial Revolution, cotton production in the South was stagnant due to the time-consuming and labor-intensive task to separate the fiber from the raw cotton. The revolutionary change did not occur until the 1700s, when Eli Whitney reintroduced the cotton gin to the public. The renewed machine carried features to make automation in the process of cotton production possible. The precise work of machines liberated humans from the onerous task to refine cotton. In this case, the automatic production of cotton in the Deep South soared, boosting the cotton industry to grow in an unprecedented speed.

　　On the other hand, the creating roles of automation spur imagination and push human intelligence to a new level. In the eighteenth century the automation drastically revolutionized the gun-making industry. The long-standing process, in which guns were assembled, one at a time, was replaced with a system of interchangeable manufacture. Such creation aroused curiosity among people to develop a new and more efficient way in other industrial productions. One of the forerunners in that era, Gerald Ford, was inspired by the idea of interchangeable parts and subsequently adapted this scientific method to the car production. The assembly line, a method that allows massive, automatic and standardized production, was invented by Ford and was soon introduced to the automobile industry. Car production became so efficient that consequently cars were no longer a luxury that eludes the lives of common people. The process of innovation of machines encourages humans to expand their creativity and intelligence to a broader extent, which results in further and diverse developments.

　　In short, what have been created will be used for creating. In this case, the wide use of machinery plays its role in pushing up work efficiency and breeding new opportunities. As long as human beings could be cautious in controlling them, progress will be continuously made.

　　通过这篇满分作文，我们不难看出它有以下特点：

　　1. 观点清晰明确

　　2. 例证充分支持观点，并且非常连贯，衔接自然

　　3. 与题干观点联系紧密

　　4. 词汇丰富，句式多变

　　除了与题干观点紧密联系以外，其他几点都是我们在讲解议论文写作方法时讲到过的，因此我们对于ACT的写作改革没有必要太过于恐慌。反而是题干中要求我们紧密联系给出观点，能给我们节省不少时间，给我们提供了相对优势。我们在新ACT写作中，应该注重正反两面去思考问题，需要我们注重complexity和insight的问题。

　　三、备考建议及注意事项

　　1.举例子的时候，例子的适用性尽量广一点，我们应该尽量避免总是举自己的例子的情况;举例子时，举一堆例子远不如举一个例子之后展开、论证、分析，这也印证了新评分标准中“development”的要求。

　　2.扩大阅读量，尤其推荐高品质外文期刊。

　　3.增加练习量，正所谓熟能生巧。虽然目前官方发布的新ACT作文资源非常有限，但大家完全可以充分利用现有的ACT备考真题和练习题目，稍加修改后进行练习。

　　4.逻辑训练是拿高分的最关键因素。简单说，观察英语的策略和组织考点，注意句子以旧信息开头，新信息结尾的链条模式或者归纳、演绎的角度设想问题。

　　5.批改作文。作文和其他客观选择题不一样，主观性要强一些。如果在写作的过程中能够找到良师益友进行作文的批改，能够在批改的过程中不断讨论，不断改进，互相交换例子素材，将起到意想不到的效果。

　　以上就是有关ACT写作改革以及备考建议方面的介绍，希望大家能够用心体会，更多精彩内容小编稍后为您呈现。最后，前程百利祝大家在ACT考试中取得优异的成绩。

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