[Kinh nghiệm] – Bài viết đạt giải nhất cuộc thi “Earth day writing contest 2012”

Mình đã chọn topic 2 và sau đây là bài viết không đi theo lối essay truyền thống 3 phần mở, thân, kết của mình. Có lẽ chính nhờ lối viết “lạ” này đã giúp mình chiến thằng trong cuộc thi và đem về chiếc ipad 2 trắng tinh cùng vô số quà lưu niệm của chương trình. (Đến giờ vừa viết bài vừa mày mò sử dụng cái ipad vì thề có trời, lần đầu tiên xài đồ Apple !).

Nếu cứ viết theo kiểu cũ thì ban giám khảo đọc tới bài của mình sẽ rất chán nên mình đã thử liều 1 lần xem sao. Hơn nữa, từ ngữ mình dùng là hết sức đơn giản và gần gũi bởi đây là một cuộc thi quảng bá Earth day tới đại đa số mọi người nên nếu cứ dùng từ ngữ khoa học, “đao to búa lớn” thì sẽ làm mất đi mục tiêu ban đầu của cuộc thi.  Tiếp nữa là không cần viết quá dài, chỉ cần tập trung vào ý chính thôi nhé. Bài viết của mình chỉ có 829 từ thôi và so với yêu cầu không quá 1000 từ thì vẫn còn 1 khoảng khá to. Sau khi trao đổi với nhiều bạn cùng tham gia cuộc thi này, mình nhận thấy ai cũng viết rất dài (gần vừa khít 1000 từ =.=) và đều mất cả tháng để viết xong (mình còn bận ôn thi Finland thì lấy đâu ra chừng đó thời gian =.=). Đó cũng là 1 kinh nghiệm cần rút. Cứ thoải mái mà viết và focus on main idea. Vậy nên keep your plan simple thôi nhé các bạn!

Khi cần viết 1 bài essay cho 1 cuộc thi thì ý tưởng là chính còn viết chỉ là phụ thôi. Mình đã nảy ra ý tưởng viết kiểu này cũng khá lâu mà chưa có dịp thực hiện còn khi bắt tay vào viết thì chỉ cần không quá 2 tiếng là ok! Cho nên hãy nhớ Điều đầu tiên là idea!

Trên đây là 1 số ý kiến của mình. How about yours? :)

Topic 2: Tell us about a pressing environmental issue in your city. How would you go about addressing it?

Little Plastic Bag’s diary

Date… month…year…

Dear diary!

Today mom took me to an event about environmental protection. I was so scared! People talked about their surroundings seriously. What will happen to my family if the human beings realize how badly we have destroyed their environment? How about the “invasion” that dad has talked for days when the whole family gathering for dinner?

But you don’t have to worry my dear diary…Phew! That’s a difference between talking and doing. They know very well about my family, however, you would be surprised that 12,000 tons of plastic bags were used inViet Nam(2010), and the outlook is bigger and bigger with the increase by 8-10% per year. The thing is they cannot change their daily habit. Every time they go shopping, they even ask for more plastic bags, just because they don’t bring their own bag and I am easy to be thrown away. Sometimes, they don’t need me for just a single item they buy from a store, but they still use me because it is a habit! Humans are weak, lazy and careless. I believe that they cannot win in changing their habit. I dare you humans! (laugh out loud)

Date…month…year…

Dear diary!

It was raining outside our house. There is no doubt that I would see many friends on all of streets tomorrow. Even though it was not a big rain, there will be a flood in this city. You see, because people hardly know that we are very hard to destroy ourselves, so when they throw us away, we get stuck in sewers and the other water exit instructions for several years. After a rain, just a small rain, there is always a flood follow, and people can see a lot of plastic bags floating with it. Funny, right?

To fix this problem, they make the goal in which they are going to decrease by 40% of consuming the amount of plastic bags from now on to 2015 inViet Nam. Well, I don’t think they can overcome this situation because my brother told me that every family uses 1 kg of plastic bags per month, and 98.7% of these are indestructible. They usually bury us, but I don’t think this is a good idea. In fact, it is very bad for the environment. First, we stop the growing of grass, and cause the erosion for soil. Second, we cover the roots of trees in order to make them die quickly. I hate trees!

Once again, I dare you people! Can you reach the goal you have made? I don’t think so.

Date…month…year…

Dear diary!

We are very powerful although we are small, and look harmless, just the outside. We impact not only the people right now, but also the next generations. As I said, we are very hard to be destroyed. Humans can’t bury us for those reasons I explained last week. Now they think they can burn us? Oh no! People barely know that most of us made from original oil. As the result of that, if they burn us, we release fumes having dioxin and fura, and other dangerous kinds of toxic. These chemical toxics break the immune system, create cancers, and defects in children, and other terrible things to a human’s health.

I think the reason why people don’t use the environment-friendly bags is just because they are more expensive than other plastic bags. If you consume a bio bag, or a paper bag, it will cost you nearly 10,000 dong. For a plastic bag, the seller usually give you one for free! In my opinion, you can reuse an environment-friendly bag for many times while you usually cannot reuse a plastic one. So, 10,000 dong is not very expensive when you recognize the true valuable behind it.

I heard that the government is spending 85,000 billions in order to protect Viet Nam’s environment. Once people are not able to change their consuming habit, 85,000 billions is still just a number. You have to have a crystal plan, and stick with it so that you can spend money wisely. Beside the tax, we should ban the sellers from giving plastic bags for free. If someone wants a plastic one, he has to pay for it. I think the government ought to support the companies which supply environment-friendly bags in the early phases by decreasing or even cutting tax on them. The most important thing is we have to inform people, give them more information about the impact of plastic bags to their habitat.