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Subject: Re: Anyone who is willing to grade my composition? thanks.
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:56:00 +0100
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a colleague of mine kindly gave me his website address- he marks/corrects
scripts- called proofreading - www.writerightenglish.co.uk
His name is Chris and he examines IELTS papers too!
"ghost2074" <ghost2074@cnuninet.com> wrote in message
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> (I am preparing for the GRE General test)
>
> Topic:
> In our time, specialists of all kinds are highly overrated.
> We need more generalists. people who can provide broad perspectives.
>
> My composition:
>
> Nowadays the specialists and generalists are both required in various
areas.
> Some people believed that specialists are paid much more attention than
> generalists, though in fact both are emphasized in our society.
>
> specialists who possess skills and experiences in particular area(s) are
> needed to accomplish varied types of work, from repairing a car to
designing
> the algorithms and programs on a computer. Their work always play a
> important role in our society, for without the specialists the world would
> meltdown to chaos. However, the importance of specialists are sometimes
> neglected, especially in IT area, where programmers are hard to find yet
> managers and CEOs are overwhelming. The lack of programmers once nearly
> destroyed the big blue - IBM, which realized the problem soon and
corrected
> it quickly, preventing the corporation from a serious decay.
>
> Yet generalists are also needed, because their broad perspectives are
> critical for areas involved with multiple subjects, e.g, the management
and
> engineering. Even in a specialized subject generalists are welcomed. Take
> the biology as a example. Though we have lots of specialists in varied
> branches of biology, we do need some generalists who are able to
communicate
> with biologists involved in different areas such as ecology, biochemistry,
> cancer biology and so on. In addition, today's students of biology are
> encouraged (or even required) to take a course named General Biology,
which
> enlarges their perspectives in entire biological science. Recent research
> revealed that students having taken the general biology course are more
> competent in the specialized aspects of biology.
>
> Therefore, specialists and generalists both play a important role in our
> society, and none of them should be overrated or neglected.
>
>
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