纽约时报写作竞赛范文(共3篇)

纽约时报写作竞赛范文 第1篇

New York Times

Editorial Contest

竞赛简介

无论是力图改变社会中的不平等现象、或是希望人们给与更多的关注和理解，纽约时报诚邀中学生们选择感兴趣的话题，写一篇最多450字的议论性文章，要求作文短小精悍，有说服力。

参赛要求

全球11-19岁的初高中生均可参赛。

作文字数至多450字。

如有援引，需标注出处。必须援引一篇纽约时报的文章，和一篇其他来源、具有可信度的文章。

每个学生只能提交一篇文章，但可以组队完成。

作品未曾发表。

纽约时报写作竞赛范文 第2篇

Chester E. Finn, a prominent American educational scholar, in his opinion editorial “Young, Gifted and Neglected” asserts that talented American students deserve just as much political attention and financial support from the government as low-achieving students do. He enunciates his argument and manages to persuade his reader by employing multiple literary devices, giving relevant numerical statistics, and acknowledging and then challenging a social stereotype.

点评：

Chester first highlights the contrast between the government’s cordial attention toward low-achieving students and its aloof negligence of talented and active students who require more resources than low-achieving students to prosper. He points out that the government is only “raising the floor under low-achieving students” and therefore ignores raising “the ceiling for those already well above the floor”. His comparison forcefully reminds his reader that even though talented students only constitute a small portion of the American student population not only numerically but also geographically, their desire of advancing their studies should not be ignored by the government just for the rest of the students to feel equal and not left behind. Chester also argues that more competitive exam schools in America means more “safe havens” for gifted students whose precious talents could have gone wasted in normal, uninspiring public schools. His metaphor illustrates to his reader the beneficial atmosphere and abundant educational opportunities exam schools have to offer for their students. It shows to his reader that in those safe havens, students can largely avoid severe problems they can encounter in uncompetitive public schools, such as peer pressure, gang violence, and academic dishonesty. With effective literary devices, Chester successfully explains and advocates his belief that America entails more “elitist” exam schools for its talented students to further expand their academic scopes.

点评：

Chester also gives relevant statistics to back up his claim that there is a shortage of competitive exam schools in America, which adds credibility and quantified evidence to his conclusion. He states that his research only finds “165” public high schools that can adequately provide for talented students out of “more than 20,000” public high schools. Some may argue that the 165 existent competitive public high schools can sufficiently accommodate most talented students in America. Expecting this argument that can potentially diminish the value of competitive public schools, Chester further offers an example of a well-known public school that gets “some 3,300 applicants a year” among whom more than two-thirds of them are academically qualified. The numerical evidence Chester provides further draws reader’s attention to the lack of competitive public school in America and emphasizes the urgent need of high quality educational institutions that can help talented students succeed in the future. Moreover, Chester attempts to demystify the term “exam schools”, which are assumed to be elitist by society, as he finds that racial minorities such as African Americans and Asians are well represented in exam schools (21 percent and 5 percent respectively), indicating to his reader that exam schools are in fact not elitist but promoting racial equality and integrity.

Overall, Chester bravely encourages the reader to acknowledge and then overcome a social stereotype, that all public schools must be “all things to all students.” While an abundance of political slogans calls for equal opportunities for all students, Chester asserts that “every motivated, high-potential young American”, instead of “every young American”, needs more resources and support from the government and that he or she should not be intentionally undertreated in order to avoid seeming elitist. Although President Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney did attend and graduate from elite private high school and owe much of their success to their education that many cannot afford, Chester stresses the distinction between elite private high school and public exam schools, as the latter are “great schools accessible to families who can’t afford private schooling or expensive suburbs”. After all, Chester’s comparison legitimizes the democratic nature of public exam schools in front of his reader and helps them understand the irrationality behind the notion of keeping everything the same for every vastly different student in terms of academic motivation and capacity.

点评：

Chester E. Finn Jr. has succeeded in convincing his reader that providing different levels of resources and opportunities to different type of students is in actuality practical and far-sighted rather than elitist. He first highlights the imbalanced allocation of resources and the benefit of public exam schools with multiple literary devices, convinces his reader of the high demand of public exam schools in American society, and eventually helps his reader recognize the democratic nature of public exam schools.

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纽约时报写作竞赛范文 第3篇

在比赛的过程中，因为要大量阅读，可以帮助学生发现感兴趣的知识或者主题，大量的阅读输入和写作输出能够为大学申请和夏校申请的文书写作做铺垫。

如果参赛作品能够获得Winner奖，相当于在国际权威平台上发表一篇作品，也能够在大学申请系统中展示自己的写作实力。

◎ 在美国大学的申请中，无论是申请哪个专业，招生官都喜欢能够表达自己想法和世界观的学生。纽约时报夏季读写比赛，就是一个可以将参赛者置身于世界之中，又将世界与自己建立关联的赛事。参赛者也可以从美国主流媒体的角度去了解社会时事热点，理解美国主流报刊的观点以及学习他们的写作手法。

◎ 目前针对中学生的国际性写作比赛不多，NYT夏季读写比赛在十周的开赛期间，只要你想，每周都能提交一篇作品参加比赛。这也意味着，假如第一周你没有获奖，第二周可以继续提交你的新作品，直到比赛截止都可以持续冲击奖项。既能够锻炼英文写作能力，也增加了获奖概率。

◎ 虽然NYT夏季读写竞赛有众多优点，但是，想要获奖，并没那么容易！以2021年举办的第12届NYT夏季读写竞赛为例，主办方总共收到近9500份参赛作品，最终只有 271篇作品获奖， 获奖率不到3%！

除了暑期的NYT夏季读写比赛，纽约时报还主办了一系列的写作竞赛，包括

NYT Students Editorial Contest 社论竞赛

NYT STEM Wtiting STEM写作竞赛

NYT Narrative Writing 叙事写作竞赛等，

如果感兴趣，大家也可以多尝试其他比赛。写作类比赛确实是一个很好的提升写作能力的机会，既能够提升文科生的竞争力，又能深化理科生“通才”的形象。返回搜狐，查看更多

纽约时报官方给出的评分标准中包含：Opinion 观点、Attention to Detail细节、Audience受众群体、Language 语言、以及Guidelines 比赛准则。

以上就是去年的纽约时报学生评论竞赛的获奖范文解析！《纽约时报》全年拥有各类型写作竞赛，适合初高中生参与！

今年的纽约时报学生评论竞赛New York Times Student Review Contest将在本月开启！！！喜欢写作的你不能错过~