关于2015年act写作改革，今年只会影响北美考生，亚洲考生不受影响，除非ACT调整内部架构，按ACT的风格分析，可能性低，现在的ACT的系统里作文分数出现后，作文和英语合并会有一个新的英语分数，但是总分不包括作文计算四科平均分。而在大学申请的系统里，有的学校填分数栏会出现的总分，各单项分和包括作文后的总分和单项分。所以尽管一部分大学不需要提交作文成绩，但需要有足够的重视。
作文改革时间预期是2015年秋天，最早会出现在北美九月考试中，ACT写作形式会更加复杂。考试会给到考生们一个基本的话题，但是同时也会给出三个不同观点，考生们的作文需要涵盖这三个观点。 优点是提供的信息更多，缺点是对驾驭文章提出了更高的要求。
ACT写作改革变化如下：
一、由说服性文章拓展到议论文写作
二、要求对三个观点的进行分析、拓展、解析彼此关系
三、打分侧重在作文的论点和分析、拓展和支撑、组织能力、语言能力
四、由当前作文和英语二项合分改成未来阅读、英语和作文三项合分，合分不影响总分
下面是新旧ACT写作详细对比：
1. 考试时间
变革前：30分钟，议论文
变革后：40分钟，剖析性议论文
2. 话题范围
变革前：根本集中于教育类话题
变革后：更普遍多样的社会话题
3. 考题方式
变革前：提供正反两方观念供参考，需独立表达观念，可与题干观念不分离
变革后：提供三方观念，须分离所给观念剖析较复杂问题
4. 评分维度
变革前：主要从文章谈论的复杂度、观念展开、文章组织及语言评分
变革后：四维评价：想法和剖析(Ideas and Analysis)，开展与支持(Development and Support)，文章组织(Organization)，语言应用用及标准(Language Use and Conventions)
5. 算分办法
变革前：两位阅卷人评分，分别依照1-6分评价，加和汇总。例如两位阅卷人的分数分别是：6分，5分，最后的得分为11分。
变革后：两位阅卷人评分，每人在四个维度内依照1-6分评价，最后每个维度加和汇总，即每个维度得分区间2-12分。例如两位阅卷人分数分别是：3-3-3-3，3-3-3-3，最后得分为6-6-6-6. 另外，除了每个维度的得分外，考生还会取得一个最终换算的1-36分范围内的写作总分。
我们能够很明晰地看到，变革后的ACT写作扩展了话题范围，减少了谈论范围，明晰了计分维度，完善了算分方式。客观地讲，这是对之前ACT写作考试的进一步完善，也顺应了不时变化的考试市场需求。新的写作考试更全面，深化地考察学生的写作才能，也有利于广大考生明白写作备考方向，更好地为大学学术写作打下根底。
满分范文及解析
官方给出了一篇标题为“Intelligent Machines”的参考范文，列出了6篇范文，分数从1-6分不等。我们认真阅读下面的满分作文，可以发现新的ACT写作，依然有章可循。
标题是针对intelligent machines替代人工的现象展开谈论，并一共以下三个观念：
Perspective1: What we lose with the replacement of people by machines is some part of our own humanity. Even our mundane daily encounters no longer require from us basic courtesy, respect, and tolerance for other people.
Perspective 2: Machines are good at low-skills, repetitive jobs,and at high-speed, extremely precise jobs. In both cases they work better than humans. This efficiency leads to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone.
Perspective 3: Intelligent machines challenge our long-standingideas about what humans are or can be. This is good because it pushes both humans and machines toward new, unimagined possibilities.
满分作文：
As technology improves, and more and more tasks are completed by machines instead of humans, the question is no longer about what we can do with machines, but rather what we should. Although the usage of machines increases efficiency and our standard of living, it detracts from the value of humanlife.
As machines increasingly perform all our basic tasks, society is able to produce more. The additional production adds material value to oursociety and frees people up from these low-skill tasks. This is in agreement with Perspective Two which claims that this industrialization leads to more prosperity. For example, in the 18th century, short-staple cotton that was grown in the Southern United States required an immense amount of labor inorder to separate the seeds from the fiber to process the cotton to make it marketable.
However, in the mid-19th century, Eli Whitney, an American entrepreneur, invented the cotton gin, which allowed for automation of cotton processing. This machine replaced the need of a large work force for the process and greatly improved production. As a result of the cotton gin,short-staple cotton production skyrocketed, increasing by more than 10 times inthe South while bringing prosperity to the region and setting in motion a new industrial era in America. This is in agreement with Perspective Three, which says that mechanization allows for “unimagined possibilities”. Although there are clearly many advantages to industrialization, there are also some heavy drawbacks.
The replacement of humans by machines leads to the loss of value to human life, an effect that outweighs the material gains of automation. The search to find human tasks that can be performed by machines inevitably leads to comparisons between the human and the machine. If a company executive wants to see if a inventory management team can be replaced by a robotic system, he will compare the two and determine which can do a better job. When this occurs,the people on the team are evaluated not for their worth as human beings, but for their effectiveness at performing a specific function—in essence, as we would evaluate a machine. In a larger sense, when we begin to think about humans in this way, the worth of a person’s life becomes dependent on only what they can do and no longer has any intrinsic value. As Perspective One states,we begin to lose our humanity. This new mindset and way of evaluating people,though seemingly harmless in the workplace, is devastating when it begins topervade a society. If a person is judged only on his or her capability, there is no reason for a person to remain after they have served their function. This would warrant genocide against the elderly and the disabled because their burden on society would not be made up for by any production.
Although the machines may seem to only fulfill the low skill jobsat the moment, there is no barrier to prevent the machines from replacing more.As the machines increase in intelligence, they will replace any tasks done by humans and render us unnecessary and worthless.
Due to the risks of dehumanization, the material benefits of machines are not enough to justify its increasing presence.
一直备考现行版本ACT作文的考生，会发现其实变革后的作文并没有想象中的那么令人恐惧，全然不同。在这篇作文中，有下面几个突出的特征：
1. 观念明晰、视角独立;
2. 例证有力支持观念，且十分集中连接;
3. 与题干观念联络严密，不偏不跑;
4. 言语多样性强。
因此，考试并不是多么可怕的事情~只要大家认真努力备考就一定可以取得理想的成绩！
