基本功的訓練和考分的提高是個水漲船高的過程。如果把平時的英語訓練比做是做“自選動作”的話，那麼針對考試我們還要做一套“規定動作”，即完全是根據考試作文的要求而進行的練習。為此，小編告訴大家英語六級考試作文的寫作技巧與注意事項。希望能幫助到大家。
(—)評分標準和作文的重要性。
考試作文和平時練習的作文有所不同。因為畢竟是考試所以有個標準化的問題以便於評分，不能像平時練筆那般隨意。作文在六級考試中居於十分重要的地位。從1997年6月起，考試委員會在計算成績時正式實施“作文最低分”的規定，對寫作提出了更高的要求。其計算方法是將作文分的最低分定為6分，如果作文分為0，即使總分及格了也按59分處理，作文分在0—6分之間，其最後得分為：原計算總分-6+實得作文分。比如說你的總分原為63分，實得作文分為2，那麼最後得分是63—6+2=59分。由於作文分數太低使原本可以通過的考試變成要再考一年，實在是件很令人遺憾的事。這足見英語教學工作者對寫作的重視，也使我們在平時的學習中要注重實際英語能力的培養和提高。
六級考試作文采取總體評分的方法，閱卷老師根據文章的總體印象給分及獎勵分，從文章的內容和語言兩個方面進行綜合評判。這些都是我們在考前所要了解的考試要求，以便在考試中規範寫作。
(二)命題範圍。
我總結了一下我做的真題，1996年1月一2000年6月的作文題如下：
1996年1月：Why I Take the College English Test Band 67
1996年6月：Health Gains in Developing Countries?(有圖表)
1997年1月：Haste Makes Waste
1997年6月：My View on Job—hopping
1997年12月：My View on Fake Commodities
1998年6月：Do“Luck Numbers Really Bring Good Luck”?
1999年1月：Don’t Hesitate to Say“NO'’
1999年6月：Reading Selectively or Extensively?
2000年1月：How I Finance My College Education?
2000年6月：Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary?
從這些考題中我們可以看出，近年來主要是以寫議論文為主，即個人對問題、觀點、現象等的看法，一般都是給出英語題目及中文提綱。我個人認為，圖表題是其中難度最大的。它一般都是以較長時間內的現象變化為寫作物件，對內容的要求比較高，需要有一定的專業知識才能使文章顯得豐滿。應用文如書信、簡歷等考的比較少，摘要這幾年也未出現過。命題範圍主要包括：
l、工作、學習方面
如：Why I Take the College English Test Band 6 ?
Reading SelectiveIy or Extensively?
How I Finance My College Education?
2、人生觀方面
如：My View on Job—hopping
Don’t Hesitate to Say"NO'’
3、社會問題、文化方面
如：Health Gains in Developing Countries?
My Views on Advertisement
How t0 Solve the Problem 0f Heavy Traffic
4、俗語、傳統習俗
如：Haste Makes Waste
Do“Luck Numbers Really Bring Good Luck”?
5、科技與未來
如：Internet to Change Society
Looking Forward to the 21st Century
(三)“ 三段式”的寫作。
我們常愛說考試作文像“八股文”。的確，在形式上是有些八股，但是這些規範又是我們所必須掌握的，因為老師就根據它來評分，也由不得你喜歡不喜歡。六級作文要求至少120個詞一般都是寫150~180個詞，大都是三到四段，因此我將其稱做是“三段式”的寫作，即不論什麼題材都要有開頭、展開和結尾三部分。而且每個部分的寫法都有一定的套路，掌握了這些套路，就可以使你的文章看起來有條有理。當然能不能拿高分就取決於你的內容和形式是不是結合得很好，你對形式會不會靈活編排以避免呆板，你的內容是不是充實豐富以避免單調。考試作文的.套路可以教，內容的填寫就要靠同學們自己在基本功訓練階段的努力了。
1、Well begun is half done：
好的開始是成功的一半。文章的開頭是你留給閱卷老師的第一印象，所以這第一炮一定要打響才行，也就是說既清楚明白又引人注目。開頭是總領全文的，有一定的統攝性，因此一定要言簡意賅，不要寫得太長。關於開頭的寫法，傳統的方法有很多，比較常用的有：
1)開門見山。這一般都用於談及對某個觀點或現象的看法的文章，在文章的開頭就簡單的談出個人看法，然後在下文裡展開論述。如：
A. The benefits of television: With the improvement of people’s living standard, almost every family can afford to buy a television set. Television is becoming increasingly popular because of its values in entertaining and educating.
B. Chinese people in my eye: The Chinese have a 5000 - year history, and modesty, industry, bravery, kindness are the flower of their virtues. In my opinion, they still remain true in reality.
2)引用名言。用名人名言或諺語開頭，往往比直接用個人的話更有說服力，也給文章增添色彩。當然這要以廣泛的積累為基礎，不然臨時可想不出來。在引用古語或名人名言的時候要注意引用的準確性，如果把握不準的話，不如不引用。
A. Women are not treated equally with men: “we hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable right...”, the American Declaration of Independence declares. While in china, everyone is familiar with the saying “women are equal with men” or “women can hold half of the sky”. It seems that men and women are treated equally, at least in law. But the reality is a different story.
B. Can money buy everything? As the saying goes” Money makes the mare go”, but there is something that can’ t be bought with money, such as time and true love.
3)自問自答。通過提問的方式引起讀者對文章的興趣，你可以在篇首就簡單給出答案，也可以將答案放到接下來的段落中。這一般都是用在作文題本身就是提問式或是
結論式的文章中。比如說Should people be always honest?Don’t hesitate to say“NO”!
A. What is a good student? Different people may have different answer to this question. Someone thinks that a good student should be good at academic work. Others claim that a good student should be one who is all round development of morality, intelligence and physique. But I think, in addition to the above mentioned, a good student, above all, should be capable of doing practical work, and must be competent in the future work.這是自問自答式的，在第一段中根據題目所給的問題，先寫出提示中的兩種觀點，然後有連線詞but，提出自己不同的看法，使人對作者的意圖一目瞭然
B. “Reading makes a full man” is a saying of the famous English philosopher Francis Bacon. It means that anyone who wants to be a full man must keep on reading. But books are ot various kinds and different contents, dealing with different things in the world. Then what kind of book should we read? And how to read?這個開頭段我認為是寫得很精彩的，因為它不是純粹的八股式寫法。用名言開頭，最後用問句點明主題。沒有按常規在開頭即交代兩種相反的觀點，然後說as far as I am concerned…而是在認識到讀書的重要性的前提下提出我們該讀什麼樣的書和怎麼讀，使文章在認識上有一定的深度。
4)對比式。在命題作文中，它往往會給出一些提示，表明兩種不同的態度，再要求你寫出自己的看法。用這種開頭的方法要考慮一下整個文章的佈局。如果你的主體是論述個人的看法而非別人的觀點，那麼在開頭就有必要交代一下對於這個問題目前存在的一些看法。比如以下的例
A，考題的提示是：有人說成功主要靠運氣，有人則認為成功主要靠勤奮，而與運氣無關。你的觀點是什麼?說明你的理由。這其實就是要你以你的理由為表達主體。如果按照作文提示要求是要把別人的觀點單獨成段的話，則不需要在開頭展開對雙方看法的論述，留到下面再說。如下面的
B，題目要求是：
1、有人認為業餘時間應多參加一些體育活動。
2、有人認為業餘時間應多做一些智力活動，如讀書、看報、寫作等。3、我的看法。這就是要你將題目的要點單獨成段，所以在開頭就不用交代得太清楚，點到即可。
A. How to achieve success: Some people say that the key to success is the luck, while others claim it is hard work. There is no doubt that successful people take advantage of opportunities. But if he works little and just waits to see opportunities pass by, he still can’t succeed. So, in my opinion, diligence, devotion and perseverance are three fundamental factors to success.
B. How to spend spare time: Physical activities and intellectual pastimes are two basic ways for us to spend our spare time. Different people may have different means of spending their leisure time.
5)講故事。這種方法比較新穎，能使文章活潑有趣，但是要注意故事的長短。如果你整篇文章都要圍繞該故事展開，你的開頭即是故事的開頭。如果你僅是用其做個例子，就要寫得簡單清楚，往往可以是生活中常遇到的一些情景。
Most of us may have such experience: when you go to some place far away from the city where you live and think you know nobody there, you are surprised to find that you run into one of your old classmates on the street, perhaps both of you would cry out: “what a small world!”
6)數字開頭。這一般都是用於圖表題，將圖表顯示的數字先概括性的總結出來。然後再提出問題，給與分析和解答。
A.”Health gains in developing countries: It can be seen from the graph that health gains a lot in developing countries from 1960 to 1990. Their life expectancy increased 20 years, while the mortality decreased 10%. Why are there such big changes during the 30 years?
B. Changes in people’s daily expenses in the past five years: In the past five years, there have been great changes in people’s daily expenses in XX city. According to the figures given in the table, the amount of money spent on food decreased gradually, accounting for 35 percent in 1998. However, there was a rapid increase in clothing expenses, which made up 17% in 1998. In addition, the table shows an upward tendency in recreation expenses. The same was the case with other expenses.
劃線部分都是圖表題中常要用到的一些片語和語句。
7)自創法。寫作有時是需要靈感的，考場上也會有靈感。這就看你對文字靈活運用的能力了。比如說：Do"Luck Numbers Really Bring Good Luck?"碰到這樣的題,你可以用比較幽默的方式開場：If luck numbers really bring good luck, I needn’t to worry about my band 6 because the last four figure of my confirmation number is 6666. But what if the teacher who reads my paper doesn’t believe this? So it’s my exertion that determines my scores, not the numbers. It’ s the same in other situation.這樣寫老師一看就會會心一笑，自然認同你的寫作水平了。
