Question

阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

For hundreds of years, education has been closely connected to writing. Professors had been writing down their lectures, and students had been keeping notes after their teachers. Goose feathers and parchment (羊皮纸) changed to ballpoint pens and paper, but the essence has remained the same: knowledge passed down from one person to another must be thoroughly recorded.

With the emergence and development of mobile technologies such as laptops and smartphones, using conventional methods is gradually becoming obsolete (废弃的). Students tend to use laptops in class more often than pens and paper. And although there are still many educational institutions that ban using computers in class, there are many arguments in favor of doing so.

On the one hand, let us face reality: people do not write as much today as they used to several years ago. This is especially true in the case of the youth: teenagers and young adults tend to feel more confident and comfortable typing on their devices rather than with handwriting. Keeping records after a teacher in class requires a student to write very fast, which often decreases the readability of the notes taken. Sometimes it can be quite difficult for a student to understand what he or she hurriedly wrote down in class. At the same time, typing on a laptop helps write the important information down in a comprehensible and accurate way. Also, handwriting always involves grammatical mistakes, typos, blots (墨水迹), and so on. Obviously, students experience little-to-none of such problems while using computers.

On the other hand, technology is something youth nowadays have got so accustomed to that without it, they operate less efficiently. Students are native to such devices as smartphones, laptops, tablets, and other gadgets, and naturally incorporate them in whatever they do, be it leisure time or studying. Not allowing students to use tablets in class means to deprive (剥夺) them of something that is almost a part of them and of their daily lives. If young people know how to use technology to their advantage and increase their studying effectiveness with its help, why forbid them from doing it?

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Answer

For centuries, knowledge has been recorded with handwriting. However, with such technologies as laptops developing, traditional recording methods are outdated. Many educational departments prohibiting it, many arguments are for using computers in class. For one thing, tying on devices can record information comprehensibly and accurately and avoid unnecessary mistakes. For another, accustomed to devices and taking advantage of them to study effectively, students should not be banned.

【解析】

这是一篇概要写作。

概要写作是将阅读与写作有机结合，要求考生既能读懂文章信息，又要依据要求规范连贯地表达内容，其中准确概括很有挑战且十分重要，根据记叙文、议论文、说明文等不同文体作相应概括，总的来说，遵循以下步骤：确定主题句；寻找关键词；重构主题句；重组支持句。如本篇文章第一段引出话题：几百年来，教育一直与写作紧密相连；第二段指出随着笔记本电脑和智能手机等移动技术的出现和发展，使用传统方法逐渐变得过时；第三、四段论述了在课堂上使用电脑的理由，一方面，让我们面对现实：人们今天不像几年前那样写那么多；另一方面，技术是现在的年轻人已经如此习惯的东西，没有它，他们的运作效率更低。由此可知，文章前两段讲述了知识的传统记录方式和现在的记录方式，随后从两方面对“在课堂上使用电脑”进行了论述。