改版後的ACT寫作考試除了給你一個寫作總分，還有四個大能力單項分。每個閱卷的歪果仁可都有一雙火眼金睛，他們能夠在有限時間內快速找出同學們寫的這篇作文裏的各大“採分點”，爲了通關ACT寫作考試，
首先，作文的開頭段不求你使用各種高大上長難句，你可能最終沒能讓閱卷老師明白你的意思，反而讓他覺得你邏輯混亂。開頭首先清晰的交代要寫的話題，和關於這個話題你的立場是什麼。注意同學們，你的立場要體現你對這個controversial issue 的價值判斷，你覺得它是好啊還是壞啊還是你想對這個問題保持中立態度都ok,但你不要擺一個fact，那等於顧左右而言他。你必須讓閱卷人立刻知道你對這個問題的看法，也就是你論證主體部分要支持或反對的內容。
其次，平時的寫作課建議同學們用2-3個段落作爲論證的主體段落，由於新版ACT寫作考試有一個新要求，即題目中給的perspective1,2,3你必須全部進行迴應，這就要求同學們在草稿紙上寫essay map進行brainstorming時要把這三個已給出的論點都考慮進去。有的同學在平時的寫作課上曾有過這樣的疑問，會不會有哪個perspective我實在無法跟我的立場聯繫上？不會的。對於和你立場一樣的perspective，你只需提一下，把它拉到你方陣營，然後繼續論證你的觀點，而對於跟你立場不一樣的perspective，和你不一樣的原因有兩種。第一，它可能和你討論這個問題的角度不同，但是內容合理，你歸納一下你們都想說哪一大類的.內容，然後你的論證角度是什麼；第二，你可能根本不同意它表述的內容，那麼你指出你哪不待見它即可，然後接着論證你的觀點。建議大家在段首先寫topic sentence,如果哪個perspective和你本段觀點相似，提一兩句。然後接着論證你的本段立場。或者先指出和你立場不一樣的perspective，你不同意它哪了，然後本段你的立場又是什麼，接着還是繼續論證你的觀點。最後在每段結尾加一個conclusion 進行總結或transition進行承上啓下，也就是給閱卷人再重申一下你本段的立場，加深印象，也體現了你論證的嚴密。畢竟是persuasive essay,寫的formal些啦。
在我的這篇考前碎碎唸的最後，我想跟同學們講一下你的文章的最後一段，你可能那時候已經沒什麼時間了，千萬別嚇尿，給文章加個結尾很簡單的。結尾不求長篇大論展望未來神馬的，一句話也成哈，就是重申一下這個問題你的立場，就是paraphrase 一下thesis statement啦! 祝烤生們都能取得一個理想的寫作成績！
附:官網給出的新版ACT寫作樣題和官網給出的滿分例文
Intelligent Machines
Many of the goods and services we depend on daily are now supplied by intelligent, automated machines rather than human beings. Robots build cars and other goods on assembly lines, where once there were human workers. Many of our phone conversations are now conducted not with people but with sophisticated technologies. We can now buy goods at a variety of stores without the help of a human cashier. Automation is generally seen as a sign of progress, but what is lost when we replace humans with machines? Given the accelerating variety and prevalence of intelligent machines, it is worth examining the implications and meaning of their presence in our lives.
Read and carefully consider these perspectives. Each suggests a particular way of thinking about the increasing presence of intelligent machines.
Perspective One
What we lose with the replacement of people by machines is some part of our own humanity. Even our mundane daily encounters no longer require from us basic courtesy, respect, and tolerance for other people.
Perspective Two
Machines are good at low-skill, repetitive jobs, and at high-speed, extremely precise jobs. In both cases they work better than humans. This efficiency leads to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone.
Perspective Three
Intelligent machines challenge our long-standing ideas about what humans are or can be. This is good because it pushes both humans and machines toward new, unimagined possibilities.
Essay Task
Write a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the increasing presence of intelligent machines. In your essay, be sure to:
analyze and evaluate the perspectives given
state and develop your own perspective on the issue
explain the relationship between your perspective and those given
Your perspective may be in full agreement with any of the others, in partial agreement, or wholly different. Whatever the case, support your ideas with logical reasoning and detailed, persuasive examples.
官網滿分例文：
As technology improves, and more and more tasks are completed by machines instead of humans, the question is no longer about what we can do with machines, but rather what we should. Although the usage of machines increases efficiency and our standard of living, it detracts from the value of human life.
As machines increasingly perform all our basic tasks, society is able to produce more. The additional production adds material value to our society and frees people up from these low-skill tasks. This is in agreement with Perspective Two which claims that this industrialization leads to more prosperity.// For example, in the 18th century, short-staple cotton that was grown in the Southern United States required an immense amount of labor in order to separate the seeds from the fiber to process the cotton to make it marketable. However, in the mid-19th century, Eli Whitney, an American entrepreneur, invented the cotton gin, which allowed for automation of cotton processing. This machine replaced the need of a large work force for the process and greatly improved production. As a result of the cotton gin, short-staple cotton production skyrocketed, increasing by more than 10 times in the South while bringing prosperity to the region and setting in motion a new industrial era in America. This is in agreement with Perspective Three, which says that mechanization allows for “unimagined possibilities”. Although there are clearly many advantages to industrialization, there are also some heavy drawbacks.
The replacement of humans by machines leads to the loss of value to human life, an effect that outweighs the material gains of automation. The search to find human tasks that can be performed by machines inevitably leads to comparisons between the human and the machine.// If a company executive wants to see if a inventory management team can be replaced by a robotic system, he will compare the two and determine which can do a better job. When this occurs, the people on the team are evaluated not for their worth as human beings, but for their effectiveness at performing a specific function—in essence, as we would evaluate a machine. In a larger sense, when we begin to think about humans in this way, the worth of a person’s life becomes dependent on only what they can do and no longer has any intrinsic value. As Perspective One states, we begin to lose our humanity. This new mindset and way of evaluating people, though seemingly harmless in the workplace, is devastating when it begins to pervade a society. If a person is judged only on his or her capability, there is no reason for a person to remain after they have served their function. This would warrant genocide against the elderly and the disabled because their burden on society would not be made up for by any production. Although the machines may seem to only fulfill the low skill jobs at the moment, there is no barrier to prevent the machines from replacing more. As the machines increase in intelligence, they will replace any tasks done by humans and render us unnecessary and worthless.
Due to the risks of dehumanization, the material benefits of machines are not enough to justify its increasing presence.
