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新托福寫作是考試的最後一部分，包含兩道試題，一篇綜合寫作(Integrated writing)，一篇“獨立寫作”，需在大約50分鐘內完成。熟悉和理解新托福4大評分標準是高分關鍵，下面我們就來看一下這幾個評分標準。

✙ 評分標準1：effectively addresses the writing topic and task。
托福寫作要求考生有效地闡明主題，考生千萬不要跑題。一般來說，考生全部跑題現象較少，但是局部跑題現象十分嚴重，這也是考生不能輕取高分的緣故。

✙ 評分標準2：well organized and well developed
邏輯條理清楚，發展充分。每次托福寫作中作者在講寫作時總是把它和閱讀相對照。各位考生要想拿到獨立寫作滿分必須真正理解“八股文”的結構，千萬不要寫中國式的“八股文”，而應寫出“美式八股文”。

✙ 評分標準3：uses specific details and examples to support you view
考生的論據一定要具體、明確，且對論點有支持作用，而不能空洞和泛泛而談。

✙ 評分標準4：displays language facility by demonstrating syntactic variety, word choice and idiom。
透過譴詞造句和習慣表達來展示語言的熟練程度，這一點是各位考生經常忽視，迷惘和不清楚的一點。新托福寫作占總分120分的30分。能用first千萬不 要用firstly，能用finally千萬不要用last but not least. 能用常用的詞千萬不要用偏詞，同時我們要熟練掌握ETS喜歡的5大語法結構和2種從句。

對於托福寫作的建議是不要寫得太多，而要認真寫上幾篇，再讓老師或專家幫忙修改，避免再犯類似錯誤。同時也要注意邏輯清晰，語言簡潔，求精而不求量。

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✙ 托福滿分作文
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Does modern technology help students learn more information and learn it more quickly?

Marvelous as it looks at first sight, modern technology does not help students learn information at a greater speed and with higher efficiency in most cases; or it could work towards the opposite direction which led students to lose their initiative to learn and explore.

First of all, one property of modern technology is latently harmful to any learning mind – it distracts. One thing we feel about when we are searching for information online is that the internet, as an outstanding example of modern technology and even regarded as the innovator of education, provides us with not only relevant results to make use of, but also external links to click. More than once I turned on my computer to check school library for resources, but ended up watching Youtube videos. In this case, computer as a representative of modern technology plays a negative role in learning information. We do acquire more information with the convenient tool, yet most of them are irrelevant and in the end procrastinating would lower our learning.

Also, students would easily become disoriented in the huge sea of information. Although modern technology could equip us with easy access to information, the huge amount of resources would actually leave us discombobulated. Therefore, it is only we possess information more quickly rather than we learn it more quickly. An illustrating example is my experience with a HK digital library which stores almost all the books I desire. At first I enjoyed downloading them from the database, however, one month later I ended up with hundreds of books stored in my hardware yet none of them finished or ever clicked.

Furthermore, modern technology gives students an illusion that information and real knowledge is easy to learn – just by clicking mouse or watching videos. But in fact this forms only the first step towards useful information and effective learning, as learning of any kind requires full concentration and interactive thinking, which are almost absent in the process of popular E-learning experience.

To summarize, modern technology does not help students learn more information and learn it more quickly, though it does make access to information and resources much more easily. The popular e-learning still lacks the concentration, depth, and interaction that are the hallmark of traditional ways of educating and learning.