Should English Majors Study Maths?

2014

An undergraduate of English at a university, in a recent letter to the university’s president, complained about the mandatory maths classes he had to take. He said that because a language major has little use for maths, he would forget all of his maths lessons soon after taking the required exams. What do you think of his opinion？

〖要求〗

In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.

In the second part, provide one or two reasons or your experience (s) to support your opinion. In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.

〖题目分析〗

这是典型的立场观点选择题型。要求学生就“英语专业的学生是否应该学数学”这一问题确立自己的观点，然后进行论证，最后总结全文。 〖写作思路〗

该话题通常有如下两种写作模式

1.作者观点：英语专业学生应该学数学。首段提出自己的观点，主体部分逐一列举原因，结尾总结。 2.作者观点：英语专业学生不该学数学。首段提出自己的观点，主体部分逐一列举原因，结尾总结。

参考范文1 范文点评

Recently,argument on whether English majors study maths or not has been hotter and hotter. Different people have different ideas. A part of them believe that math shouldn't be learned .While others think that they should develop maths.In my view,English majors should learn maths. Most of English learners,especially girls, are extremely scared of math. To escape this subject, they always put the reason this way: a language learner hardly uses math, so he shouldn't put much emphasis on math. However, have you ever seen an outstanding person just spending his whole days on one major? The wold-wide-known person Aristotle was famous for his knowledge. Let us image, if he have insisted on just only one subject ,his cognition and capacity are substandard.Nowadays, a great number of companies are seeking for those generalists. If we were well-done in both English and math, shouldn't it become our advantage? On the other hand, a university is not only a place for technical training but a place for entire development .Students in universities are being told for comprehensive knowledge including language, literature, philosophy, science and so on. As an undergraduate majors in English, it can be good to learning mathematics which let us more rational and wise. For English students, English may be used as an implement to earn living, but math can be treated as an entertainment that can boost the quality of life. It goes without saying that people who are proficient in both English and math should be better developed than those concentrated on English. Despite the difficulties of learning math, we should pursue the breakthroughs in our lives. English majors should study maths. 首段：运用正反表态法，列出问题的两个不同观点，一些人赞成英语专业的人学数学，一些人反对，之后引出自己的观点：英语专业的人应该学数学。 首段：运用现象分析法写出关于英参考范文2 Recently, there have been some complaints about whether students who major in English should learn math or not, and this has risen to a heated 激烈的讨论。根据这一现象作者给discussion. Students’ points of view on this issue vary from one to another. For my part, I don’t think our English majors should learn math in university. 出了自己的看法：英语专业学生不 应该学数学。 First and foremost,English majors will usually find a job as a translator or a

语专业学生是否应该学数学引起 English teacher.There is no need to master good mathematical knowledge because what we have learned is enough,In addition,those students who are not good at math will feel the pressure and then may lose their confidence in learning English.Besides,studying math will distract our attention from English.It is hard for us to keep a balance between the two subjects and allocate time well. I think it’s a waste of time for us to deal with those kinds of difficult math questions. We don’t use it much either in our studies or daily life. However,teachers in math classes always teach very complicated and abstract topics, so we need to spend most of our time finishing the homework after class. Then we can’t focus on our own major. In the last but not least purpose of studying math is just to get good grades on the exams, rather than use it in helping us think logically. After we pass the exam we will forget all the things we have learned in the class and won’t use the knowledge ever . To sum up, I don’t think it is wise for English majors to learn math in university. We should focus on our own major and try our best to do it well! 文章主体部分：多处使用连词，使文章连贯顺畅，阐述了英语专业的学生不学数学的好处和原因，从而进一步论证了作者的观点 总结全文，首尾呼应再次强调自己的观点，使文章结构严谨。