备考雅思写作考试,考生不仅要掌握技写作技巧还要熟悉了解写作评分标准,有针对性的备考才会取得好效果。今天,前程百利小编为大家介绍实现雅思写作连贯与衔接的秘诀,可供参考学习。
雅思的评分标准已经详细地描述了对于连贯与衔接(Coherence and Cohesion)的要求。只要我们尽量依照这个标准写文章,就能最大程度地提高文章的流畅度。
uses cohesion in such a way that it attracts no attention
skillfully manages paragraphing
sequences information and ideas logically
manages all aspects of cohesion well
uses paragraphing sufficiently and appropriately
logically organize information and ideas; Clear progression
A range of cohesive devices appropriately in spite of some under-/over-use
Clear central topic within each paragraph
Arrange information and ideas coherently; a clear overallprogression
Uses cohesive devices effectively, but cohesion within and/or betweensentences may be faulty or mechanical
may not always use referencing clearly or appropriately
uses paragraphing, but not always logically
present information with some organisation but there may be a lack ofoverall progression
make inadequate, inaccurate or over-use of cohesive devices
may be repetitive because of lack of referencing and substitution
may not write in paragraphs, or paragraphing may be inadequate
连贯与衔接涵盖了四个方面的考量:
1、有逻辑有条理地组织论点
一篇文章只有一个立场,但是论点可以有几个。那么这几个论点如何排列,哪个在前哪个在后呢?这些是有讲究的,同学们不能想到哪写哪儿。下面的段落是学生的例文,其中就存在论点排列的问题。
Although internet can contain much information in education, if under nocontrol, it will be terrible, because young people cannot concentrate on their studies for hours, and the information online can be good and bad as well. If you allow your kids to learn only via the internet, they will play all day. So, studying without a teacher’s supervision cannot be imagined.
这段文字的中心内容是网络学习存在的问题。论点包括两个,学生的自律和网络的内容。关于学生自律的问题有两句话,young people cannot concentrate on their studies for hours,以及 If you allow your kids to learn only via the internet, they will play allday.这两句话有相关性,但是却被网络那句话隔开了。这样会给读者造成阅读的障碍,降低文章的流畅度。所以重新调整这几句话的位置,就可以很快解决这个问题。
Although internet can contain much information in education, if under nocontrol, it will be terrible. Young people cannot concentrate on their studies for hours. If you allow your kids to learn only via the internet, they will play all day. And the information online can be good and bad as well. So, studying without a teacher’s supervision cannot be imagined.
2、连接手段使用得自然多样
论点之间如何连接?有哪些连接手段?下面这个段落的中心内容是看电视太多产生的问题,共有三个论点。所使用的连接手段是正确有效的,但是单一,少变化。每一个论点之间都使用了副词做连接词,而且都是在句首。
Watching TV too much can lead to a number of problems. Firstly, it is bad for children’s health. For example, they tend to have poor eyesight and a weakbody. Secondly, if children spend too much time watching TV, they would have less opportunity to interact with their peers. This can contribute to their feeling of loneliness and isolation from the society. Last but not least,watching TV too long, children may become less active mentally because TV is considered as inactive activity by many researches.
下面的段落是对照版本。其中使用了代词,副词和形容词等多种连接手段,而且做到了自然衔接:
Watching TV too much can lead to a number of problems and the most obvious one is the negative impact on physical health of children. For example, theytend to have poor eyesight and a weak body.Another concern is about social development of children. If they spend too much time watching TV, they would have less opportunity to interact with their peers. This can contribute to their feeling of loneliness and isolation from the society. Children watching TV too long may also become less active mentally because TV is considered as inactiveactivity by many researches.
3、段落的中心内容与中心句
一个段落只有一个中心思想,这个中心思想通常会体现在一个总结性的句子当中,这句话叫做中心句。中心句在学术文章中常常落在段首,以方便阅读。中心句如同射击的靶子,要直指文章主题,这样后面的论点才不会偏离题目,因此非常重要。上面关于看电视太多的段落,中心句就写的非常明确。下面再给同学们一些句子,可以灵活应用于立论段,即证明自己观点的段落。
It is hard to argue with the fact that workers are the direct/ first beneficiaries of this working fashion.
There is no doubt that many employees would favour/welcome telework.
Statistics show that there are few things which impact the human mind more than mass media.
The mass media hold a large share of importance in society.
A life without the presence of mass media would seem improbable formany.
However, this does not mean that …
下面是一些可以用于让步段的中心句:
there are certainly some minor downsides in......
I admit that … is not perfect.
I understand why some people oppose ......
Of course there are some opposite voices against......
the disapproving voices also sound reasonable
It is natural to regard a university as a phase preparing for a future job…
the other side of the argument is also valid
Surely pushing their children towards academic study makes sense for parents.
You cannot be honest without admitting ….
4、指示代词的准确使用
中文和英文在指示代词上有较大的区别。中文习惯重复名词,而英文则强调用代词。如‘我今天把钱包丢了,我那个钱包可好看了。’而相对应的英文表达是使用代词而不再重复钱包这个名词,"I lost my purse today, and it was so cute." 或者"I lost my purse, which was socute." 流畅度高的文章指示代词使用正确,指向清楚。下面这两句话当中有两个代词it,但是存在指代不清的问题:
Government’s investment is always the focus that people pay more attention to. Recently, it becomes a controversy that whether it should support the athletes to join the worldwide competitions.
前一个it指代后面whether从句,后一个it指代government.为了理清关系,减少模糊,最好不用形式主语这个句型,而是直接把主语从句放在主语的位置上。
修改如下:
Government’s budget is always the attention focus of the public. Whether it should support the athletes to join the worldwide competitions causes controversy.
在了解了上面的内容之后,考生知道要怎样才能做到吗?下面,小编就为大家简单介绍,不过只是从连贯性方面出发的哦,也希望能够对考生带来帮助。
连贯性包括意连和形连两个方面,前者指的是内在的逻辑性,后者指的是使用转换词语。当然这两者常常是不可分割的。只有形连而没有意连,句子之间就没有内在的有机的联系;反之,只有意连而没有形连,有时行文就不够流畅。
1) 意连
段落中句子的排列应遵循一定的次序,不能想到什么就写什么。如果在下笔之前没有构思,边写边想,写写停停,那就写不出一气呵成的好文章来。
下面介绍几种常见的排列方式:
A. 按时间先后排列(chronological arrangement)
We had a number of close calls that day. When we rose, it was obviously late and we had to hurry so as not to miss breakfast; we knew the dining room staff was strict about closing at nine o'clock. Then, when we had been drivingin the desert for nearly two hours ----- it must have been close to noon ----the heat nearly hid us in; the radiator boiled over and we had to use most ofour drinking water to cool it down. By the time we reached the mountain, it was four o'clock and we were exhausted. Here, judgement ran out of us and we started the tough climb to the summit, not realizing that darkness came suddenly in the desert. Sure enough, by six we were struggling and Andrew very nearly went down a steep cliff, dragging Mohammed and me along with him. By nine, when the windhowled across the flat ledge of the summit, we knew as we shivered together for warmth that it had not been our lucky day.
本段从"rose"(起床)写起,然后是吃早餐("not to miss breakfast", "closing at nineo'clock"),然后是"close to noon",一直写到这一天结束("By nine--")。
B. 按位置远近排列(spatial arrangement)
例如:From a distance, it looked like a skinny tube, but as we got closer, we could see it flesh out before our eyes. It was tubular, all right, but fatter than we could see from far away. Furthermore, we were also astonished to notice that the building was really in two parts: apagoda sitting on top of a tubular one-story structure. Standing ten feet away,we could marvel at how much of the pagoda was made up of glass windows. Almost everything under the wonderful Chinese roof was made of glass, unlike the tube that it was sitting on, which only had four. Inside, the tube was gloomy,because of the lack of light. Then a steep, narrow staircase took us up inside the pagoda and the light changed dramatically. All those windows let in a flood of sunshine and we could see out for miles across the flat land.
本段的写法是由远及近,从远处("from a distance")写起,然后"get closer",再到(" ten feetaway"),最后是"inside the pagoda"……当然,按位置远近来写不等于都是由远及近。根据需要,也可以由近及远,由表及里等等。
C. 按逻辑关系排列(logical arrangement)
a. 按重要性顺序排列(arrangement in groups of importance)
If you work as a soda jerker, you will, of course, not need much skill in expressing yourself to be effective. If you work on a machine, your ability to express yourself will be of little importance. But as soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken or the written word. And the further away your job is from manual work, the larger the organization of which you are an employee, the more important it will be that you know how to convey your thoughts in writing or speaking. In the very large business organization, whether it is the government,the large corporation, or the Army, this ability to express oneself is perhaps the most important of all the skills a man can possess.
这一段谈的是表达能力,它的重要性与职业,身份有关,从"not need much skill"或"of little importance"到"more important",最后是"most important"。
b. 由一般到特殊排列(general-to-specific arrangement)
If a reader is lost, it is generally because the writer has not been careful enough to keep him on the path. This carelessness can take any number of forms. Perhaps a sentence is so excessively cluttered that the reader, hacking his way through the verbiage, simply doesn't know what it means. Perhaps asentence has been so shoddily constructed that the reader could read it in any of several ways. Perhaps the writer has switched tenses, or has switched pronouns in mid-sentence, so the reader loses track of when the action took place or who is talking. Perhaps sentence B is not logical sequel to sentence A---- the writer, in whose head the connection is clear, has not bothered to provide the missing link. Perhaps the writer has used an important word in correctly by not taking the trouble to look it up. He may think that"sanguine" and "sanguinary" mean the same thing, but the difference is a bloody big one. The reader can only infer what the writer is trying to imply.
这一段谈的是a writer's carelessness,先给出一个general statement作为主题句,然后通过5个"perhaps"加以例证。
c. 由特殊到一般排列(specific-to-general arrangement)
I do not understand why people confuse my Siamese cat, Prissy, with the oneI had several years ago, Henry. The two cats are only alike in breed. Prissy, aquiet, feminine feline, loves me dearly but not possessively. She likes to keep her distance from people, exert her independence and is never so rude as to beg, lick, or sniff unceremoniously. Her usual posture is sitting upright, eyes closed, perfectly still. Prissy is a very proper cat. Henry, on the other hand,loved me dearly but possessively. He was my shadow from morning till night. He expected me to constantly entertain him. Henry never cared who saw him do anything, whether it was decorous or not, and he usually offended my friends insome way. The cat made himself quite comfortable, on the top of the television, across stranger's feet or laps, in beds, drawers, sacks, closets, or nooks. The difference between them is imperceptible to strangers.
本段的主题句是段首句,它仅提出一个问题:为什么两只猫会被搞混。然后对两者进行比较,末句才下结论。
2) 形连
行文的逻辑性常常要靠适当的转换词语及其他手段来实现。请读下面这一段文字并找出文中用以承上启下的词语:
Walter's goal in life was to become a successful surgeon. First, though, hehad to get through high school, so he concentrated all his efforts on his studies --- in particular, biology, chemistry, and math. Because he worked constantly on these subjects, Walter became proficient in them; however, Walter forgot that he needed to master other subjects besides those he had chosen. As aresult, during his junior year of high school, Walter failed both English and Latin. Consequently, he had to repeat these subjects and he was almost unable to graduate on schedule. Finally, on June 6, Walter achieved the first step toward realizing his goal.
本文中起承上启下的词语有两种,一种是转换词语(transitional words orphrases),另一种是起转换作用的其他连接手段(linking devices)。前者依次有:first, though, so, inparticular, and, because, however, besides, as a result, both…and, consequently,and, finally. 后者依次是:he, he, his, his, he, these, them, he, those, his, he, these,his.本段1有词汇105个,所使用的转换词语及其他连接用语共26个词,约占该段总词汇量的四分之一。由此可见,掌握好transitions不仅对行文的流畅(smoothness)有益,而且对于学生在规定时间内写足所要求的字数也是不无好处的。
一个段落里如果没有transitions也就很难有coherence了。
我们看下面一个例子:
Speaking and writing are different in many ways. Speech depends on sounds.Writing uses written symbols. Speech developed about 500 000 years ago. Written language is a recent development. It was invented only about six thousand years ago. Speech is usually informal. The word choice of writing is often relatively formal. Pronunciation and accent often tell where the speaker is from. Pronunciation and accent are ignored in writing. A standard diction and spelling system prevails in the written language of most countries. Speech relies ongesture, loudness, and rise and fall of the voice. Writing lacks gesture,loudness and the rise and fall of the voice. Careful speakers and writers are aware of the differences.
本段中除了第6句开头出现一个起过渡作用的"it"之外,没有使用其他的过渡词语.这样,文中出现许多重复的词语,全段读起来也显得生硬而不自然。如果加上必要的过渡词语来修饰的话,这一段就成了下面一个流畅连贯的段落:
Speaking and writing are different in many ways. Speech depends on sounds; writing, on the other hand, uses written symbols. Speech was developed about 500000 years ago, but written language is a recent development, invented only aboutsix thousand years ago. Speech is usually informal, while the word choice of writing, by contrast, is often relatively formal. Although pronunciation and accent often tell where the speaker is from, they are ignored in wiring because a standard diction and spelling system prevails in most countries. Speech relieson gesture, loudness, and the rise and fall of the voice, but writing lacks these features. Careful speakers and writers are aware of the differences.
有损连贯性的几种情况:
考生在写作中经常出现下面几种错误:
1) 不必要的改变时态,比如:
In the movie, Robert Redford was a spy. He goes to his office where he found everybody dead. Other spies wanted to kill him, so he takes refuge with Julie Christie. At her house, he had waited for the heat to die down, but they come after him anyway.
2) 不必要的改变单复数,比如:
Everybody looks for satisfaction in his life. They want to be happy. But if he seeks only pleasure in the short run, the person will soon run out of pleasure and life will catch up to him. They need to pursue the deeper pleasure of satisfaction in work and in relationships.
3) 不必要的改变人称,比如:
Now more than ever, parents need to be in touch with their children's activities because modern life has the tendency to cause cleavages in the family. You need to arrange family like it so that family members will do things together and know one another. You need to give up isolated pleasures of your own and realize that parents have a set of obligations to sponsor togetherness and therefore sponsor knowledge.
因此写作中,一定要注意时态,人称以及数的变化是否正确,要注意保持一致。
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