文档介绍：GRE AWA MODEL ESSAYS

Topics in the following list may appear in your actual test. You
should e familiar with this list before you take the GRE-AWA
test. Remember that when you take the test you will not have a
choice of topics. You must write only on the topic that is assigned to
you.

1
The Pool of Issue Topics
Present your perspective on the issue below, using relevant reasons and/or examples
to support your views.

Issue 1
"We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose
views contradict our own."; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."

Do we learn more from people whose ideas we share mon than from those whose
ideas contradict ours? The speaker daims so, for the reason that disagreement can cause
stress and inhibit learning. I concede that undue discord can impede learning. Otherwise, in
my view we learn far more from discourse and debate with those whose ideas we oppose than
from people whose ideas are in accord with our own.
Admittedly, under some circumstances disagreement with others can be counterproductive
to learning. For supporting examples one need look no further than a television set. On today's
typical television or radio talk show, disagreement usually manifests itself in meaningless
rhetorical bouts and shouting matches, during which opponents vie to have their own message
heard, but have little interest either in mon ground with or in acknowledging the
merits of the opponent's viewpoint. Understandably, neither batants nor the viewers
learn anything meaningful. In fact, these battles only serve to reinforce the predispositions and
biases of all concerned. The end result is that learning is impeded.
Disagreement can also inhibit learning when two opponents disagree on fundamental
assumptions needed for meaningful discourse and debate. For example, a student of
paleontology