亲爱的烤鸭们，之前我们一起研究了雅思写作当中的遣词造句的问题，学习了如何写出“高逼格”的词汇和“不套路”的句子。今天，我们一起来从更宏观的角度研究一下雅思写作中，如何写出更为有效的段落。

我们先来说说什么叫“段落”。

段落，是文章中最基本的单位。内容上它具有一个相对完整的意思，在文章中用于体现作者的思路发展或全篇文章的层次。北京外国语大学2009年出版的《英语写作手册（英文版第三版）》中对于“段落”有着如下的阐述：“A paragraph is a unit of thought”，由此可见，一个有效“段落”的基本要求是一段思路发展的完整表达。

那么，一个有效表意的段落的标准是什么呢？

“A paragraph is like a mini-essay; it should be unified, coherent and well developed. A paragraph is unified when all the sentences in the paragraph are focused on one central thought or on a single topic; when the writer wishes to introduce a new thought or topic, he / she should begin a new paragraph. A paragraph is coherent when it develops naturally and smoothly, and one sentence leads logically to another.”

1. Unity内容上的一致性：

“Unity of a paragraph is concerned with its content. ”

一个有效的段落，首先要保证在内容上的一致性，分析论述同一个中心主题，围绕着同一个topic sentence展开。通常，topic sentence出现在段首，偶尔也会在段落中间或段末出现。

2. Coherence逻辑上的连贯性：

“Coherence of a paragraph is concerned with its form, or its organization.”

其次，一个有效的段落，要求在形式和组织上连贯通顺，句子组织清晰且富有逻辑，过渡自然流畅。

说到句子组织的连贯性，这里就不得不提到连接词的作用。在雅思写作中，我们通常会用到因果，转折，递进，让步，假设等一系列连接词，来使我们的语句组织更为通顺连贯，这里不一一列举了，在我们的雅思写作课堂上和今后的文章中，我们会专门谈到。

这里，我要提醒大家注意的是，逻辑连接，包括但不仅包括以上的逻辑连接词；很多时候，句型的变化，名词或者代词的必要重复等形式，同样可以巧妙地起到句子连接的作用。

最后，我们来通过一个段落练习，结束今天的讲解吧！

题目：选择合适的连接词完成段落。

连接词：in addition, for example, in fact, also, furthermore

Teachers of foreign languages should be extremely well-qualified in order to carry out their duties properly. (  A  ), a teacher should possess a minimum of a graduate degree from a certified education school or institute if he is to teach high school or below. Besides the academic degree, teachers should not consider teaching only as an occupation for earning money; they should (  B  ) be interested in teaching. (  C  ), it was necessary that teachers be knowledgeable in their major fields. They should be skillful as well. (  D  ), the language teacher must know the target language well enough to be imitated by his students. Proficiency in the target language includes four skills: understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. A teacher should know the linguistic facts of the language of the students in order to understand the problem they will have in learning the target language. (  E  ), the teacher must be familiar with audio-lingual techniques Knowing all this will help the students to learn correctly and quickly.

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参考答案：

A.    In fact  B. also  C. Furthermore  D. For example  E. In addition