GRE写作北美范文：关于团队合作精神

　　"People work more productively in teams than individually. Teamwork requires cooperation, which motivates people much more than individual competition does."

　　The speaker asserts that because teamwork requires cooperative effort, people are more motivated and therefore more productive working in teams than working individually as competitors. My view is that this assertion is true only in some cases. If one examines the business world, for example, it becomes clear that which approach is more effective in motivating people and in achieving productivity depends on the specific job.

　　In some jobs productivity dearly depends on the ability of coworkers to cooperate as members of a team. For businesses involved in the production of products through complex processes, all departments and divisions must work in lock-step fashion toward product roll-out. Cooperative interaction is even essential in jobs performed in relative isolation and in jobs in which technical knowledge or ability, not the ability to work with others, would seem to be most important. For example, scientists, researchers, and even computer programmers must collaborate to establish common goals, coordinate efforts, and meet time lines. Moreover, the kinds of people attracted to these jobs in the first place are likely to be motivated by a sense of common purpose rather than by individual ambition.

　　In other types of jobs individual competition, tenacity, and ambition are the keys to productivity. For example, a commissioned salesperson's compensation, and sometimes tenure and potential for promotion as well, is based on comparative sales performance of coworkers. Working as competitors a firm's individual salespeople maximize productivity-in terms of profit--both for themselves and for their finn. Key leadership positions also call, above all, for a certain tenacity and competitive spirit. A finn's founding entrepreneur must maintain this spirit in order for the firm to survive, let alone to maximize productivity. Moreover, in my observation the kinds of people inclined toward entrepreneurship and sales in the first place are those who are competitive by nature, not those who are motivated primarily by a sense of common purpose.

　　On balance, however, my view is that cooperation is more crucial for an organization's long-term productivity than individual competition. Even in jobs where individual competitiveness is part-and-parcel of the job, the importance of cooperation should not be underestimated. Competition among sales people can quickly grow into jealousy, back stabbing, and unethical behavior all of which are counterproductive. And even the most successful entrepreneurs would no doubt admit that without the cooperative efforts of their subordinates, partners, and colleagues, their personal visions would never become reality.

　　In sum, individual competitiveness and ambition are essential motivating forces for certain types of jobs, while in other jobs it is a common sense of mission that motivates workers to achieve maximum productivity. In the final analysis, however, the overall productivity of almost every organization depends ultimately on the ability of its members to cooperate as a team.

 

GRE写作北美范文：关于团队合作精神的延伸阅读——新GRE作文快速准备的方法

 

　　新GRE作文复习的有效方法介绍，首先，需要积累，积累相关词汇、句型。同时需要你有广阔的知识面，要你说政治就能说政治要你评论艺术你还能评论艺术。每天背背几页GRE作文词汇，背诵几段GRE作文电子书中的经典句型，这是积累要做的。

　　有了词汇、句型，要会用。背完词汇，选择北美范文中的issue、argument各一篇，熟读，背诵中间乃认为可以借鉴的句子，读完后要整理出文章的结构提纲。

　　Issue要求考生根据所给的题目，完成一篇表明立场的逻辑立论文，Issue涉及社会、文化、科技、历史、政治、艺术等诸多方面。不同类型的题目有较大差别，但在同一类型的题目中却包含了许多命题方向非常接近的题目。对于Issue而言，自己动手拟一份完整的提纲是很有必要的，当然可以参考各种资料，但必须勤动脑，想一想提纲的逻辑连续性。

和issue比起来argument实在是太简单了，先看再写最后整理出argument专属于你自己的模板，根据你之前写的文章和网上模板进行综合，然后读熟、背熟。要锻炼出区别“事实”和“观点”的能力，写的时候不论题目中所给的事实有多夸张都需认为它是对的，不能攻击，只能攻击观点中的逻辑漏洞。就事论事，Argument就是挑错与找茬的过程。