What is background enhancement?
Background promotion is to improve your resume from all aspects, so as to improve your competitive advantage when applying for a job.
Background promotion can be divided into two categories, one is competition, such as AMC, BPHO, UKCHO. Students can take part in the less difficult competition in the lower grades first, and then step by step, reflecting the academic growth of the subject. This kind of competition can directly test students' academic level, with high gold content, which helps students consolidate what they have learned at school and improve their academic ability in all aspects.
The other is projects, such as scientific research papers, business debates, summer schools organized by universities, internships and so on. This kind of project generally takes a long time and is professional, and some projects can be written directly in the academic paragraphs of university application documents.
Why should the background be improved?
Three reasons for background improvement:
0 1 professional trial and error
If some students don't understand and experience their major before applying, and blindly choose their major, university study will be very painful. In the process of preparing for background promotion, students will learn a lot of extra content, sometimes involving part of university knowledge. They can learn whether this major is the same as they imagined and whether it is suitable for them. At the same time, it can also help students to define their specific areas of interest in the general direction of their major.
02 academic sublimation
When preparing for competitions and research papers, students can consolidate the basic knowledge of the school and learn how to use this knowledge to solve higher-level problems. At the same time, the competition for further education is becoming increasingly fierce, and standardized scores are inflationary. Participating in backstage promotion can help students stand out.
03 provide materials for documents &; Niu Jianbi's Interview Preparation
The application documents of British universities attach great importance to academics. If there is no pre-reserve, it is easy to write the contents of the literature empty and lack substantive academic opinions. Background enhancement can make students "have something to say" when preparing documents.
Some competitions were written by Oxford and Cambridge universities, and some topics were similar to Niu Jianbi's interview. When students are preparing for the competition, it is equivalent to preparing for Niu Jianbi's interview in advance.
These are often neglected in our education, so how should we deal with this inferiority complex? With the emphasis on background improvement, what are the scores of China students?
The competitiveness of students in China has improved.
According to the data, from 20 18 to 2020 * *, 4,900 students in Chinese mainland submitted their applications and 425 students were admitted, with an average admission rate of 8.67% in three years.
China students are more and more daring to apply for unfriendly majors! It is generally believed that our students in China are "good at" mathematics, natural science and other sciences. Since our Chinese scores and standardized scores can reach the standard, why can't we apply for liberal arts? ?
The reason is that PPE, economics and other disciplines can never be accomplished overnight, and they need daily study and accumulation. .......
The question is: what can be accumulated to impact the first echelon colleges?
Thesis writing is an important way of output.
Overseas teaching methods include: group discussion, teacher-student communication, classroom demonstration and thesis writing.
Everyone expects you to express your views accurately and concisely. In addition, the core teaching goal is to cultivate students' logical thinking and dialectical thinking ability.
Thesis writing, as the most important output mode, is also a highly valued ability in G5 universities. In order to select students with academic potential, Oxford and Cambridge also set up various special written tests for them! For example, US Transportation Security Administration /ECAA, etc. , it can be seen that the degree of attention!
Q: What kind of students need thesis writing?
A:
Every child who enters the academic environment of English media (international courses) needs to go too far because of his non-native language, and he needs to compete fiercely with native English speakers in high school and even when applying for university. It is difficult to gain an advantage only by language courses. In order to stand out in the English-speaking environment, we must strictly train English-speaking people's advanced reading and writing cognitive abilities, such as critical analysis, summary and evaluation, and develop their own viewpoints and argumentation logic. These requirements fully meet the academic requirements of western universities, which is difficult for traditional language training courses to achieve.
Paying attention to the critical thinking behind language and high-level academic writing will lay the foundation for students to stand out academically and compete with native speakers in an all-English environment.
Q: Why do you need to write a paper?
A:
As more and more students go out to study, foreign universities are constantly changing the methods and standards for evaluating students' ability: from the initial standardization results to the gradual recognition of academic soft power, and then to the interviews of universities.
PS document is the most important content besides standardization and GPA in the application process. When entering a foreign university, thesis writing is the main form of students' homework, and it is also an important basis for the school to evaluate students' academic performance. In addition, the writing process helps students achieve the goal of autonomous learning. From the collection of materials to the formation of opinions and the overall presentation of final papers, students' soft skills-critical thinking, organizational ability, research and analysis ability, time and task management ability-have been exercised in this process.
In the learning stage of English course in senior high school, students lack training related to English thesis writing. The writing habits of domestic students, such as using flowery words to make articles vivid and euphemistic, and puns to make articles meaningful, have nothing to do with the requirements of essay. Even in the IELTS and other foreign language tests that students are exposed to, the requirements for English writing are obviously different from those for composition:
The main criterion of Chinese examination is the accuracy of language expression, but the requirement of composition is not only the clarity of the overall logic and the integrity of the structure, but also more academic in the rigor of language. In particular, the concept of academic English is still unfamiliar to domestic students, who often can't distinguish between life terms and academic terms, which are not involved in English learning in China.