期末考试英语记叙文写作指导精彩20篇

英语字母教学作为英语学习的基础，是小学英语教学中重要一环，这一阶段的教学，教师应给予足够的重视，通过各种教学组织形式使这一阶段的学习得以很好的落实。学好26个字母对以后单词的学习起着至关重要的作用。因此，在学习字母阶段，我们要利用一切可利用的资源，创设情境，让学生和字母交朋友、做游戏。

一、字母读音教学

1. 注重示范发音的正确性

字母发音直接影响着学生单词的发音，而且学生错误的发音一旦形成就很难再纠正。因此教师在教学字母之前一定要多听录音，纠正好自己的发音。在课堂教学中教师要让学生听磁带跟读，观察他们的口形，并鼓励模仿得好的学生示范领读，帮助其他同学纠正发音。

2. 把握学生的发音难点

受各地方方言的影响，学生对字母的发音往往会出错。比如：南方人容易把A读成/e/。因此，教师要把握好学生方言发音难点，预先采取各种教学方法防止错误发音的出现。

3. 强化个别字母教学

尽管许多学生对字母有了一定程度的掌握，但大多数学生都没有进行过系统的字母学习，中间难免存在着许多似是而非的现象。例如学生对GgJj两个字母的读音容易混淆，对Uu和Ii这两个字母的发音不到位。教师在教学中应针对这种情况加强这几个字母的训练。

4. 注重读音归类教学

把字母按读音进行分类是字母读音教学的一个重要任务，也是学生觉得有一定难度的一项内容。为了使学生能更好得掌握，教师可采用分家游戏的方法，按家族将26个字母进行分类记忆。首先将字母划分为七个家族，再对号入座，最终编成一首音素家族chant 帮助学生记忆：

A、H、J、K 是A 家族，A，A是族长。

E的家族有八位，BCDE，GPTV，E，E是族长。

/e/ 的家族没有族长，它的成员有七位，FLMN，SX 和Z。

U 的家族有三位，UQW，U，U是族长。

I 的家族有两位，IY，I，I是族长。(手势指着自己)

R 和O单独住，它们自己是族长。

5. 注重语音暗线的铺垫

在三年级下册学生用书中，字母读音和字母例词的安排是一条语音暗线，教师教学时要努力让学生掌握字母的正确读音，并初步感知字母在例词中的读音，为以后学习语音奠定基础。比如讲到字母Ee时，例词是egg，elepghant，教师可突出字母E的发音。英语有48个国际音标，如果学生能在学习 26个字母的同时掌握与此相关的26个音素，将会为以后的语音学习打好基础。

二、字母书写教学

字母的书写过程要一步步进行：先观察性状，再观察笔顺、占格情况，然后书空，使用活动手册进行描红，最后达到仿写。

1. 字母认读的教学

字母的书写首先要求学生能正确区分一些形近的字母。有些字母可以通过猜谜的方法让学生记住它们的形状特点。例如：弯弯的月牙(C)、一条小蛇 (S)、三叉路口(T)、1加3(B)、一座宝塔(A)、胜利的象征(V)、大号鱼钩(J)、一张弓(D)、一扇小门(n)、一棵小苗(r)、一把椅子 (h)。这些谜语既能让学生记住字母的形，又能激发学生的学习兴趣。同时，还可以让学生自编谜语学习字母，充分发挥学生的想象能力。另外，还可以将字母的一部份遮住，让学生根据漏出来部分来猜字母。

2. 字母书写的教学

字母的书写是小学生的一个薄弱环节。小学的英语书写一定要求学生做到严格遵照书写规范，教师绝对不能马虎。因为英语字母有印刷体和书写体之分，所以容易使学生在书写时发生混淆，教师在教学时应多在这方面进行强调。

(1)笔顺教学

教师要充分利用多媒体设施让学生仔细观察字母的笔画和笔顺。正确的笔顺在活动手册的描红练习中有正确的示范。但有时学生会受到汉语拼音笔顺的影响，错误书写字母，因此教师要对容易出错的笔顺进行比较细致的指导。如i和j都是后加点，t先写钩，H先两竖等。建议教师不妨采用汉语拼音的教法，使用一些形象的比喻，帮助学生理解记忆书写规则，防止笔画出错。比如：H是一双筷子拴根线，j是海豹顶皮球，i是小海狮头上顶个球，t是伞把带开关等。

(2)格式教学

字母的占格同样是字母书写教学中的一个教学难点，尤其是当字母的大小写混在一起的时候，学生很容易混淆。这样，教师要先清楚示范，提醒学生注意并总结字母占格的规律。同时，教师还可以借助儿歌帮助学生掌握字母的占格规律。如：英语书写，四线三格，大写字母一二格，上不顶线是原则;小写字母认准格，上面有 ‘辫’一二格，下面有‘尾’二三格，无‘辫’无‘尾’中间格;i，t中上一格半。在学生掌握了字母的占格规律后，还要通过活动手册上的描红来加强练习。这里要注意的是，到一定阶段的时候，教师要让学生能在没有四线格的一条线上，甚至是没有任何线的白纸上也能正确地表示出字母的书写格式。

三、操练

字母操练我们还可以采用游戏的形式。

1. What’s missing?游戏

学了几个字母以后，把字母卡片放在一起让学生认读，然后抽去其中的一张，让学生寻找：What’s missing?此时，学生注意力高度集中，急于表现自己，识记的效果就会很好。

2. 左邻右舍游戏

学生准备好已经学过的字母卡片，教师出示一个字母，让学生找出它的左邻右舍，请找到的几个学生快速把字母拿到讲台上站在相应的位置上，其余的学生一起认读这几个字母。

3. Make letters游戏

让学生用肢体动作表示不同的字母，或让学生用火柴棒拼出不同字母的形状。

一、句式多变，词汇丰富。

鉴于这部分的写作要求和难度，不论是写书信还是编故事，由于100词的字数要求，考生必须要学会用具体的，多样化的语句来描写某样东西或某件事情。有的学生从头至尾都用"Thereis"的句式，而且重复多遍，看来单调乏味，很难得高分。我们不妨用主动和被动句式、各种不同的从句、动词不定式、强调句、虚拟语气等等，当然我们要写的句式必须是自己熟悉的，有把握的。

词汇量的大小影响写作成绩。试想你形容餐馆good，食品good，氛围good，那也太无聊了，我们平时就积累一些词汇，比如餐馆cleanandtidy，食品niceandtasty，氛围friendlyandpleasant等等，而不至于到考试时言之无物。

二、问题都答，加上连词。

如果第二单元你要给笔友写一份回信，信中有这么一个问题Haveyougotafavoriterestaurant?Tellmeaboutthefoodandwhatyoulikeabouttherestaurant。这个问题看似非常简单，但如果你就回答一句Ihavegotmyfavoriterestaurant.可以，但如果你不学会怎么扩展这个话题，那一封信中根本就写不了上百个单词。因此，学会拓展话题这一点在这部分中尤为重要，如你可以写餐馆的名字、位置、特色等等。

如果你选择编故事也很好。我们PET考生大多是青少年，正是想象力非常丰富的时候，很适合去编故事。但在书写的过程中，一定要注意尽量用自己有把握的语言来表达和描述。此外，既然是故事，就应该把事情发生的时间、地点、人物、过程以及结果都完整地表述出来。因此，我们在平时就把日常生活中所发生的有意义的小事儿用英文记录下来，日积月累你会发现，你的书写素材会越来越多，这种考试对你来说，将会是"apieceofcake"。

另外注意适当使用一些关联词，如and,but,so,if，使行文更加流畅。

三、平时勤练，克服畏惧。

因为该部分要求比较高，建议考生平时可以多做这样的书写练习。在学而思PET，我们会练习四五篇大作文，希望同学们平时就认真对待，描写到位，在老师的指导下，逐步明白自己的弱项在哪里，进而逐渐消除无话可写的心理恐惧，并提高写作水平。

当前，对于高考作文来说，首先要解决的问题，不是“怎么写”，而是“写什么”。很多考生拿到了作文题，往往不知道写些什么，脑子里似乎不存在所要写的东西。这到底是怎么造成的呢？高考满分作文，他们无一例外地写出了生活的丰富多彩，在写作上根本不存在“写什么”的问题。难道他们有不同于一般学生的特殊生活吗？一般来说，是没有的。要说他们与一般学生有什么不同，那就是他们的观察力和思考力比一般学生强，心灵比一般学生敏感，能够从生活中观察和感受到那些令人心动的东西。造成多数学生作文课上不知道“写什么”的原因，大概就是在这里。

那么，怎样解决“写什么”的问题呢？

叶圣陶早就说过，要在平时充实生活，丰富经验，增长阅历，养成认真观察、仔细认识事物的习惯，养成有条理地周密地推理判断的习惯。叶老还强调，“一个人要在社会上有意义地生活，本来必须要求经验和意思的精当、语言的确切周密。那并不是为了写文章，为的是生活。如果是为了写文章而去求经验和意思的精当，语言的确切周密，那当然是本末倒置。”这就是说，不是为了写作才去生活，才去丰富生活经验，而是为了生活才写作，写作是生活的一部分。如果能够把叶老的说法化为实践，那么“写什么”的问题不就迎刃而解了吗？从高考满分的优秀作文中，也可以看出，作者是怎样观察事物的，怎样思考生活的，怎样感悟周围人物的，怎样体验美好人性的。从这一切，我们不难获得关于“写什么”的启发。而对于“写什么”的问题已经基本解决的考生来说，“怎样写”则是需要解决的头等问题了。关于学习“怎么写”，鲁迅先生说过，“凡是已有定评的大作家，他的作品，全部就说明着“‘应该怎样写’”。这就是说，应该从大作家的经典作品中去学。在中小学生语文教材中，大都是这类作品，它们应该是我们学的重点。最近几年颁布的语文课程标准推荐的课外阅读作品，也应该作为学习“怎样写”的对象。从这些作品中，学习作者怎样立意，怎样选材，怎样谋篇，怎样遣词造句。平时人们都说阅读是写作的基础，杜甫说“读书破万卷，下笔如有神”，有人说“熟读唐诗三百首，不会吟诗也会吟”，正是从这个角度上说的。

同学们不妨带着写作中的问题去阅读经典作品，如朱德熙先生所说：“重要的是得联系自己，要‘心中有我’，就是说要设身处地去想：这篇文章要是让我来写，会写成什么样子，照这样写是比原文好还是不如原文。如果不如原文，那是为什么？从这样的角度去分析文章，一定有很多收获，特别是从中悟出许多作文的道理来。”

然而，在自己写作的时候，“愈不把阅读的文章放在心上愈好”。因为“阅读的文章并不是写作材料的仓库，尤其不是写作方法的程式”(叶圣陶语)。自己写作文，材料来自于自己的生活，应该寻找适合自己的作文内容的写作方法。换言之，从阅读中学习写作，只是借鉴，绝不是生搬硬套。

【模拟文题】

一头驴子不小心掉进一口枯井里，他哀怜地叫喊求救，期待主人把它救出去。驴子的主人召集了数位亲邻出谋划策，也没能想出办法来搭救驴子。大家倒是认定，反正驴子已经老了，“人道地毁灭”也不为过，况且这口枯井迟早总要填上的。

于是，人们拿起铲子开始填井。当第一铲泥土落到枯井里时，驴子叫得更恐怖了——它显然明白了主人的意图。又一铲泥土落到枯井里，驴子却出乎意料地安静下来了。人们发现，此后，每一铲泥土打在它背上的时候，驴子都在做一件令人惊奇的事情，它努力地抖落背上的泥土，踩在脚下，把自己垫高一点。

人们不断把泥土往枯井里铲，驴子也就不停地抖落那些打在背上的泥土，使自己再升高一些。就这样驴子慢慢地升到枯井口，在人们惊奇的目光中，潇潇洒洒地走出了枯井。以上材料，引发了你怎样的思考？请以“绝境与希望”为话题写一篇文章，题目自拟，体裁不限，不少于800字。

首先，我们要浏览GMAT作文题目、审题并写出开头段。

审题和开头段同时进行，一边看题一边写，这不是回避逻辑错误，GMAT考试而是将审题、找错和写作有机地结合。第一段的任务无非就是指出论题的结论、假设、论据，并指出题目有错误。同学们会发现，在我们GMAT写作的第一段中，逻辑错误会不断的涌现出来，而当我们把有问题的假设以及原论证的逻辑结构清理以后，该论证所存在的所有问题也就都暴露出来了。

在写完开头段并审好题后，大家要趁着头脑清醒，把主要的逻辑问题都打出来。

GMAT写作原文可能出现六七个逻辑错误，而大家只需要从中挑出3-4个最主要的进行有利的攻击就可以了。因为这篇文章能不能拿高分，直接取决于与你能否抓住主要逻辑错误。也就是说，如果你忽视了非常致命的逻辑错误，那么即使你把其它的错误批驳得再好，所用的语言再美，字数再多，最后照样不及格。有人担心是不是要把所有的错误都清理出来，实际上大家只要把主要的错误都清理出来，进行有利的攻击，同样可以拿到六分，正如ETS的六分例文一样。这样做的另一个好处是可以节约时间，因为考生在正文写作时往往会把顺手的段落大写特写，力争在某点上把敌人驳的体无完肤，但是等到意识到有其它的重要逻辑错误未被谈及的时候，时间却已经到了。而首先列出提纲则可以提醒我们点到为止，切实做到合理分配时间。与其把一个问题分析的特别透彻，不如把所有的主要问题都涉及到，即使不很透彻，也比前者要好。简而言之，Argument这部分展开批驳的时候，与其断其一指，不如伤其四指。

[GMAT考试作文的写作知识之整体布局

题目审好后，第二步就是确定选材的问题，也就是写什么的问题，即文章的内容。材料选得好，文章就成功了一半，怎样才能选好材呢？请记住选材的口诀：

选材熟悉最重要，材料真实才可靠；典型事例有意义，新颖有趣为最好；围绕题旨选材料，感情真挚得分高；考场作文时间紧，选材原则要记牢。

老师在阅卷时，对学生的习作常常会有似曾相识燕归来的感觉。材料平淡，材料老套，没有新意。比如：《成功》——终于获奖了。《快乐》——获奖了，考好了，非常快乐。《苦恼》——成绩不好，真苦恼。《苦难后的芬芳》——成绩变好了，上次没考好，这次考好了。《难忘的一件事》——获奖的一次经历。许多考生，选材没有新意，就一个材料换汤不换药。

有的考生，背优秀习作，写起作文来，脑子里就搜索范文，张冠李戴套上去，让阅卷老师一瞧就知道不是真实的，作文没有真情实感，自然不能得高分。

同学们写不出真实熟悉的东西，关键是肚子里没货，平时不注意积累，不注重观察生活，其实生活是丰富多彩的，只要你做生活的有的人，留意生活，在生活中你一定会发现许多值得写的东西，积累起来，就是写作的材料。罗丹：生活中去少的不是美，而是发现。对于我们来说，生活是万花筒，是百科全书。生活中的许多闪光点，都具有典型性，都是典型的事例。生活有三大块组成家庭生活、学校生活、社会生活。这三方面的生活都为我们提供了取之不尽的写作源泉。然而作文不是材料的堆积，因此我们要注意材料的取舍和选择。

选用材料的标准：

一．材料要以真实为基础，写自己熟悉的东西。作文写的感情真挚动人，材料就要感人。作文的材料真实不是指材料的原始再现，而是指经过提炼，比现实生活更加鲜明，更加强烈，更加集中。比如事情的完整性、材料的理想性人物典型性等方面，要适当的进行加工。我们可将几个人的事情加在一个人身上，几个人的品质加在一个人身上，来深化人物和主题。

二．选材要典型有意义。指的是所选的材料是有代表性的，有意义的。因为有代表性的材料能以一当十、以个别反映一般，从而深刻而全面的反映事物本质。比如有位考生写《这事发生在我班》，选取了班上有个叫李玲的同学为灾区捐献300元。一人就捐出了占全班三分之二多，可谓突出、意义重大的事例。当然还可写平时吝啬的人捐出很多钱，这也是典型。学习上，平时不吭一声的人，突然在这堂课上发言了这也是典型

三．选材要新颖而生动做到：人无我有，人有我新，人新我奇。有的时间，换个角度想问题，可以老材料出新意。比如：让座是老掉了牙的材料，有一考生把让座写成谢座，使材料新颖了。有一位中学生让座给一位带小孩的妇女，这位妇女教小孩谢谢大哥哥，借孩子之口表达感激之情，到站了，这位妇女让孩子再次说谢谢大哥哥，大哥哥再见，再一次借孩子之口表示谢意。作者从中感悟，做了一点好事，得到的回报是一谢再谢。

四。在选材时，我们要首选打动自己的材料，如果所选材料一提起来自己就很感动，亏他想得出来的事件，是写出来一定能打动人，只有先打动自己，然后才能打动他人，这样的材料行之以文，感情真挚，得分一定会高。凡是考场上的满分作文，首先得力于选材的成功。所以说，选好了材料，文章就成功了一半。

【选材导练】

文题一：以良师为题，写一篇不少于600字的文章，体裁不限。

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虽是全命题作文，但既无提示，又无其他限制，只要所写突出良师即可。这道题开放度很大，为学生提供了展现个性的广阔空间。要在选材上闪出创新的亮色，应把握以下几点。

1、多考生写教学上认真生活上关心的良师这类第一构思，选择医治心灵创伤等内容为题材，在读者面前凸现一个良医式的良师形象。

2、跳出一篇写一人的常规思维，从印象深刻的众多良师形象中选出若干最具美丽的场面，构成良师群体，从不同角度表现主题。

3、打破以人为师的框框，选取生活中通过暗示间接地教育你的事物为叙写对象，展现这些不开口的良师的内蕴美。你可以写黑板——心甘情愿地把自己漆成一身黑色，为的是能清楚地衬托出粉笔字的白；你可以写扫帚——同污秽赃物势不两立，必欲扫除之而后快，而当人们在赞美优美清洁的环境时，在议论该给谁一个荣誉称号时，它却躲到了不为人注意的墙角；你可以写橡皮——宁可天天承受磨砺身躯的痛苦，但决不放过白纸上一丝一毫的错误；当然你还可以写坚忍不拔的小草，写任劳任怨的老牛，写团结互助的大雁等等，应该注意的是，无论写何物为良师，你都要揭示你对它独特的感悟，亮出有个性的视角。

4、你如果对良师的判断标准有切身的体会，如果你对校内外良师的个案材料比较熟悉，那么你不应该随写记叙文之大流，写一篇观点和材料都较有个性的议论文，说说你对何为良师的独特见解。

文题二：《还我课外天地》

现有三则材料可供选用——

①学生课业负担过重，不能顾及课外天地。

②学校、家长卡得紧，不敢顾及课外天地。

你不妨想一想，①②两则选用者肯定很多，③则会少一些，你便可淘汰①②而取③。

文题三：以心中的美丽为话题

[点拨]：可选文学作品中的人物美、历史中的情感美等等。有，二泉映月的凄美，高山流水的情美，霸王别姬的壮美；有，长江黄河的奔腾咆哮之美，林间夜月的幽静雅致之美；有，歌坛上一展歌喉的婉转动人之美，舞台上千姿百态之美，赛场上叱咤风云之美，等等。

文题四：以感受青春为话题

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本题就可以在体育界、歌坛上、商海里、战场上等等地方各选一位年轻有为的人物，写出他们青春的亮丽与风采。

文题五：以美在夏季为话题

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本题可选不同人物眼里的夏季之美，如简真的《夏之绝句》、李清照的《如梦令》、辛弃疾的《西江月》、还有一首流行歌曲《盛夏的果实》、峻青的《海滨仲夏夜》等。

写人的记叙文，是以写人为主。当然，写人的记叙文中，也离不开叙事。因为人的思想品质是通过事来反映的，但对事的完整性没有过高的要求，不一定把前因后果，来龙去脉一五一十地写清楚。定人作文的基本能力方法就是用一个或几个典型事例来表现人物的性格及思想品质。

写人作文在小学记叙文中是比较难写的，文章内容多，结构也比较复杂。动笔之前，要对全篇文章的基本脉络，即先写什么，后写什么，分为几个段落以及采用什么方法开头，结尾等问题都要做到心中有数。因此，在作文前必须进行通盘考虑，搞好布局谋篇的总体设计，即需要编好写作提纲。

编好提纲之前要选择好材料，从题目入手根据中心思想，选取与中心思想密切相关的材料，有代表性的材料，新鲜的材料。新鲜是指平日观察到的，与别人写过的材料不同的材料。

选好了材料，写作时要运用多种方法来表现人物的特点。比如运用人物的肖像描写、语言描写、动作描写和心理描写来刻画人物，结合平时作文教学，下面分别说说几种描写人物的方法。

一、人物的外貌描写，几人物的外形特征描写。一般包括对一个人的服装、相貌、身材、神态、表情、年龄、性格等方面的描写。以人的外貌来说，即使是双胞胎，也总会有不同之处。可是一到作文中，一些学生写的那些人就差不多了，好像是一个模子倒出来的“泥娃娃”。给人一种似曾相见的感觉。写人不应单纯为写外貌而写外貌，写外貌的目的是为了揭示人物性格，从而表现主题。因此，肖像描写必须抓住人物的特征，与人物的身份、个性、思想相联系。这样肖像描写才有价值。

二、人物的行为描写，即通过人物的行为与动作的描写来刻画人物。在日常生活中，我们了解一个人，主要是看他的实际行动。写文章也是这样，要向读者介绍一个人，也要着重介绍他的行为。描写人物的行为包括两个方面，一是要写出“做什么”，二是要写出“怎样做”。

三、人物的语言描写，是指在文章中对人物的说话(包括个人讲话，两个人对话或几个人交谈)描写。言为心声，语言是人物内心世界的直露。所以，语言描写要防止众口一声，千人一腔的公式化。写人物语言，最重要的是注意符合人物身份，经历和处境，要体现人物的个性，如果写人物语言和人物行动合起来。这样写出的人物就更活了。

四、心理描写,心理活动是无声的语言。心理描写的作用，主要是揭示人物内心世界，表现人物的思想感情。心理描写也要符合人物的年龄、身份和个性特征，应是特定的人物在特定的环境里必然会产生的心理活动：要善于表现人物细微的感情变化和比较复杂的心理变化。

以上说的外貌、行为、语言、心理活动的描写，是刻画人物常用的方法。但在一篇文章中，不一定把几种方法都用到，要根据需要，灵活运用。不管哪能种方法，都要抓住人物特点，都要为表现中心服务，这样才能写好、写活人物，使读者爱看。

一、什么是说明文？

说明文是以说明为主要表达方式来解说事物、阐明事理而给人知识的文章体裁。说明文实用性很强，它包括广告、说明书、提要、提示、规则、章程、解说词、科学小品等。

二、说明文分类

按照不同的标准，说明文可分不同的类别：

依据说明对象与说明目的的不同，把说明文分为事物说明文和事理说明文两大类。事物说明文的说明对象是具体事物。通过对具体事物的形状、构造、性质、特点、用途等作客观而准确的说明，使读者了解、认识这个或这类事物,例如：《中国石拱桥》、《苏州园林》等。事理说明文的说明对象是某个抽象事理。将抽象事理的成因、关系、原理等说清楚，使读者明白这个事理“为什么是这样”是其主要目的，例如《大自然的语言》、《奇妙的克隆》等。 根据说明语言的不同特色，把说明文分为平实的说明文和生动的说明文两种。

根据说明文的体系不同，还可以分为自然科学类和社会科学类。

三、说明文的特点

以说明为主的表达方式是说明文与其他文体的主要区别。在各种文章样式中，说明文体是一种客观的说明事物,阐明事理的一种文体。说明文的特点是“说”，而且具有一定的知识性。这种知识，或者来自有关科学研究资料，或者是亲身实践、调查、考察的所得，都具有严格的科学性。

说明文的语言特点

准确、简洁、平实是说明文语言的主要特点。当然，说明文的语言风格也是多种多样、各有特色的，有的以平实见长，有的以生动活泼见长。以此为据，可概括为平实说明和生动说明两种方式。一般来说，以说明事物为主的说明文，重在抓住事物的特点，用简明的语言平实地加以说明。而科学小品，讲究趣味性、文艺性，须要作必要的生动、形象的说明。

四、说明文的顺序

1.时间顺序。时间顺序是文章常见的记叙、说明顺序之一。 即按照事理发展过程的先后来介绍某一事物的说明顺序。凡是事物的发展变化都离不开时间，如说明生产技术、产品制作、工作方法、历史发展、文字演变、人物成长、动植物生长等等，都应以时间为序。 时间顺序在文章中使用恰当就可以起到画龙点睛的效果，说明清楚，使读者一目了然，所以在文章时间顺序也是一种独特技巧。 2.空间顺序。空间顺序。即是按事物空间结构的顺序来说明 ，或从外到内，或从上到下，或从整体到局部来加以介绍，这种说明顺序有利于全面说明事物各方面的特征。一般说明某一静态实体（如建筑物等），常用这种顺序。；《故宫博物馆》按照先总后分的顺序，先概括说明故宫建筑物的总体特征，然后再具体介绍太和门、太和殿、中和殿、保和殿、乾清宫……御花园，而在介绍每一座建筑物的时候，则又按照先外后内、先上后下的顺序。

3.逻辑顺序。逻辑顺序即按照事物、事理的内在逻辑关系，或由个别到一般，或由具体到抽象，或由主要到次要，或由现象到本质，或由原因到结果等等一一介绍说明。逻辑顺序主要分成12种——从原因到结果、从主要到次要、从整体到部分、从概括到具体、从现象到本质、从具体到一般、从结果到原因、从次要到主要、从部分到整体、从具体到概括、从本质到现象、从一般到具体。不管是实体的事物，如山川、江河、花草、树木、器物等，还是抽象的事理，如思想、观点、概念、原理、技术等，都适用于以逻辑顺序来说明凡是阐述事物、事理间的各种因果关系或其他逻辑关系，按逻辑顺序写作最为适宜。

五、说明文的结构

说明文的结构一般有两种：总分式，事物说明文常用的结构形式：（1）总——分，如《苏州园林》（先总体的概括，再分说。结尾没有总结性的语言），（2）总——分——总，如《故宫博物院》；递进式，各层之间的关系是由浅入深、由表及里、由现象到本质。各层之间的关系为递进关系。如《向沙漠进军》。

六、说明文常用的说明方法

(1)下定义。用简明的语言指出被说明对象的本质特征。从而更科学、更本质、更概括地揭示事物的特征/事理。下定义能准确揭示事物的本质，是科技说明文常用的方法。

(2)分类别。把被说明对象按一定的标准分成不同的类别，一类一类地加以说明，叫分类别。如《食物从何处来》把生物获得食物的途径和方法划分为"自养"和"异养"两类，然后分别说明。

(3)举例子。举出实例进行说明，使内容具体化，叫举例子。《中国石拱桥》通过介绍赵州桥和芦沟桥，使人们具体了解中国石拱桥的特点，用的就是举例子的说明方法。

(4)列数字。用准确的数据说明事物的某些方面，这种方法叫列数字。如"笔全长13.5厘米，笔身约占3/5，笔帽约占2/5。顶端的活动小枢纽能自由伸出和缩进，像个乌**，长0.7厘米，笔挂长3.9厘米。"(《我的圆珠笔》)

(5)作比较。就是通过比较说明事物和事理。例如《苏州园林》中，用苏州园林建筑的不对称与我国古代宫殿和近代的一般住房的对称进行比较，突出苏州园林的自然之美。

(6)打比方。说明某些抽象的或者是人们比较陌生的事物，可以用具体的或者大家已经熟悉的事物和它比较，使读者通过比较得到具体而鲜明的印象。"石拱桥的桥洞成弧形，就像虹。"形象准确地说明了石拱桥的外形特征，这句话就用了打比方的说明方法。

(7)画图表。为了把复杂的事物说清楚，还可以采用图表法，来弥补单用文字表达的缺欠，对有些事物解说更直接、更具体。使读者直观，一目了然地了解事物的特征。

(8)引资料。资料的范围很广，可以是经典著作，名家名言，公式定律，典故谚语等。

(9)摹状貌。为了使被说明对象更形象、具体，可以进行状貌摹写，这种说明方法叫摹状貌。（和描写要区分开，两者虽一样，不过是在不同的文体中的。）

(10)作诠释。 从一个侧面，就事物的某一个特点做些解释，这种方法叫诠释法。

七、简单说明文的写作方法

1、必须抓住特征。所谓特征，就是指事物所具有的独特的地方。任何事物都有各自的特征，这也是它区别于其它事物的主要标志《活板》介绍我国古代的印刷术，就当时说："活板"这种印刷术的主要特征是"活"。因而文章在介绍中自始至终抓住了这个特征，把活板的印刷历史、制作方法和使用方法，介绍得十分清楚，使读者有了确切的了解。能不能抓住事物的特征，主要取决于作者对事物有没有细致的观察和深入的研究。

2、合理安排顺序。事物大多是具有复杂性的，必须从多方面去介绍，才能讲清楚它的特征。依据事物本身固有的条理，是将说明文写得条理清楚的根本保证。事物本身固有的条理顺序，一般说来，有以下几种：

(1)空间顺序。是指按照物品的空间方位进行说明。或由远及近，由近及远;或由内到外，由外到内;或由上到下，由下到上;或由前到后，由后到前等等。说明物品的形状、构造，一般采用这种顺序。

(2)时间顺序。是指按照时间发展的先后进行说明，先发生的先说，后发生的后说。说明事物发展变化的过程，往往采用这种顺序。如《看云识天气》中有一段描写天气的变化，由晴转阴，由阴转雨(雪)有时间先后的顺序，天空的云随着这个时间的推移，也变化着不同的形态：卷云--卷层云--雨层云。就是按时间先后的顺序写的。

(3)逻辑顺序。是指按照事物内部的联系和人们认识事物的规律来安排说明的顺序。由

整体到部分，由主要到次要，由浅入深，由简到繁，由具体到抽象，由现象到本质等，因此，说明文作者在考虑文章思路时也必须符合这些认识规律，才能使自己的文章正确地反映人们对客观世界的认识过程，同时又能适应读者的接受能力和欣赏习惯。如《大自然的语言》说明物候现象来临的因素，共写了三段：第一段说，"首先是纬度"，第二段指出，"经度的差异是影响物候第二个因素"，第三段指出，"影响物候的第三个因素是高下的差异"。这个层次顺序的安排，就是由主次决定的。

3、选择说明方法。说明事物的方法很多，我们选择什么样的说明方法要根据自己的文章而定，因为运用一些说明方法的目的，是为了更正确地说明事物。

4、语言描述准确。说明文的语言，和其它文体一样，都讲究用词准确，表述明白，这是写好各类文体章的基本要求。但是，说明文作为一种独立的文体，对文章的语言又有自己的特殊要求。说明文是以介绍知识为主的一种文体，无论是解说事物，还是阐明事理，都必须讲究科学性，按照客观事物的本来面目，老老实实地说清它们各自的特点和本质，既不允许虚构夸大，哗众取宠，也不允许艰深晦涩，佶屈聱牙。这样，说明文的语言就应该简洁明了，质朴无华，也就是语言要"平实"。

Today mother took me to skate. I was very happy. But I hadnt expected I fell down as soon as I got in. Today I didnt know why my two feet were out of control. If I wanted to head east， they would head the opposite. I fell down from time to time. My hands and face were all dirty. I thought maybe it was because that I hadnt skated for a long time.

On my way home， I thought that whatever one wants to do， he must work hard at it， so he can make progress. Skating is like this， so it study.

记事作文以叙事为主，表现发生在活动场地、竞赛等事情的某种意义，反映作者对这些事情的态度和看法。小学生作文记事作文以叙事为主，表现发生在活动场地、竞赛等事情的某种意义，反映作者对这些事情的态度和看法。

写谁(作文对象)：发生在活动场地、竞赛等事情。

写什么(作文目的)：反映作者对这些事情的态度和看法。

怎样写：通过一件事或几件事说明作文的目的。

写法：叙述事件，还可以在事件中进行有效的肖像、语言、心理、动作、细节描写。

注意事项：小学生作文过程中，必须坚持始终要与所写这些事情的态度和看法相联系。

一、交代清楚事件发生的时间、地点、人物、起因、经过和结果，即六要素。一件事总离不开这六要素，把这方面写清楚了，才能使读者了解事件的来龙去脉。

二、要围绕作文的中心选择事件，要选择最能表现作文中心思想的事件做为材料，生活中有不少新鲜有趣和激动人心的事。因此，我们平日 要多观察，多想生活中遇到的事。选材要新颖，在别人的作文中常出现的事要少写或不写，这样写出来的作文才有吸引力，有新鲜感。

三、事件的主要部分要写具体。每件事都有起因、经过和结果这样一个过程，只有把这个过程写清楚，给读者的印象才能完整而深刻。在事件中要进行有效的肖像、语言、心理、动作、细节描写，这一点很重要，这样写出来的作文才生动。要突出中心，详略得当，与主题无关的事不写。

一 要积累作文材料

积累丰富的作文材料是写好作文的首要条件。许多文章高手文思敏捷，很重要的原因是他们脑子有一个丰富的材料库，写起文章来，就能得心应手，左右逢源。同学们要写好作文，也必须花大力气积累作文材料。作家秦牧说：“一个作家应该有三个仓库：一个直接材料的仓库装从生活中得来的材料;一个间接仓库装书籍和资料中得来的材料，另一个就是日常收集的人民语言的仓库。有了这三种，写起来就比较容易。”这段话中说的前两个仓库正是同学们写好作文应必备的。

1、积累“从生活中得来的材料”，最好的方法是坚持写观察日记。同学们写日记的通病是记流水帐，自己觉得没意思，也就懒得写了。建议你们照老舍先生教的方法写：“你要仔细观察身旁的老王或老李是什么性格，有哪些特点，随时注意，随时记下来……要天天记，养成一种习惯。刮一阵风，你记下来;下一阵雨你也能记下来，因为不知道哪一天，你的作品里需要描写一阵风或一阵雨，你如果没有这种积累，就写不丰富。”

2、积累“书籍和资料中得来的材料”，一方面靠课内阅读，把语文课堂中的阅读和写作结合起来;另一方面还要靠课外阅读，坚持写摘录式的读书笔记。如果每段摘录用一张纸片，就是读书卡片。俗话说：“好记忆不如烂笔头”。记忆力再强，时间长了，要记的内容多了，总会遗忘一些。如果一边读书，一边把认为很精彩的内容摘录下来，不仅能避免遗忘，而且翻阅起来也很方便。

所谓值得摘录的“精彩内容”。与阅读者的兴趣、爱好、水平、需要等等因素有关，并无统一标准。一般来说，精彩警策的语句，生动形象的描写，新颖深刻的观点，活泼有趣的对话乃至优美的词语，都可以分类摘录。为了以后查阅方便，在摘录原文的后面注明材料的出处也是必要的。

不少同学写过摘录或读书笔记，但坚持写的不多。一项有益的工作半途而废是很可惜的。有人统计：马克思写《资本论》，写过“摘要”的书籍多达1500多种;列宁写《哲学笔记》，直接引用的哲学著作多达数十种。像革命导师那样，坚持写摘录式读书笔记吧，它能使你成为聪明、充实、富有的人，能使你今后写作时文思敏捷笔下生花。

二 要按循序渐进的规律训练

提高写作能力不是一朝一夕的事，要有长期打算，因此，要安排好作文训练的序列。怎样的序列是最合理的，从众多写作人才成长的过程中，我们看到了异彩纷飞的“序列”，还很难谈那一种是放之四海而皆准的真理。下面介绍“七先七后”的训练序列，也许是比较具有普通意义的一种，请同学们根据自己的情况，参考使用。

1 先练习写记叙、描写文章，后练习写说明、议论的文章。

2 先练习写自己亲身经历的事，后练习写别人转述的事

3 先侧重训练观察和积累，后侧重训练分析和表达。

4 先练习写单纯的事，后练习写复杂的事。

5 先不受写作“框框”的限制，放开胆子写;后按不同文章的基本要求及特点作规范训练。

6 先“模仿”，写依样画葫芦的文章;后“创造”，写新颖别致的文章。

7 先力求把文章写长，强调扩展与铺陈;后力求把文章写短，讲究简洁凝炼。

以上“七先七后”，与人们认识事物的规律，由具体到抽象，和能力培养的规律，由低到高、由拙到巧是一致的。至于以何时或达到何种程度作为先与后的界限，这又是个不能“一刀切”的问题，必须具体情况具体分析。如果有的同学将上述七先七后交替反复安排，如模仿创造再模仿再创造，也未尝不可。

三 要养成良好的写作习惯

同学们要特别注意培养自己良好的写作习惯。从作文比赛获奖同学的写作经验中，我们总结出下面七条良好的写作习惯，供同学们参考。

1 “天天动笔，多少写一点”的习惯。不少获奖同学说他们的作文获奖，归功于他们坚持写日记，时间多则多写，时间紧则少写，哪怕少到几十个字，也从不间断。这的确是经验之谈。俗话说“拳不离手，曲不离口”，天天动笔，即能使笔头子练得更灵巧，还能积累许多作文素材。

2 “通篇构思，写作文提纲”的习惯。写作文切忌写了上段还不知道下段写什么，一定要通篇构思，并且用提纲的形式把构思的作文“框架”固定下来。长期从事写作的人动笔前也是有提纲，不过有的把提纲藏在肚子里，名曰“腹稿”罢了。

3 “默诵文章初稿”的习惯。古代写诗，有“吟”和“哼”的习惯，因为有很多毛病是“看”不出问题来的，念出声。如果是在考场上，就只能默读，才能发现句子是否顺通，语气是否连贯，文脉是否流畅，音韵是否和谐。

4 “认真修改”的习惯。古人云：“文章不厌百回改”，这是写好文章的金玉良言，也是所有文章高手的经验。如果没有这个习惯，要写好文章几乎是不可能的。

5 “不说假话”的习惯。凡是好文章，一定是作者真情的流露，任何一点虚假都骗不过读者的眼睛。如果同学们初学写作就染上无病呻吟的绝症，作文的前途几乎就没有好起来的希望了。

6“不要硬写，强迫自己写”的习惯。鲁迅说写不下去不要硬写，当然是对的，因为硬写出来的东西免不了虚假。但是，同学们面队老师的作文命题，如果一时写不下去，切不可借“不要硬写”为由而不交卷。一时写不下去，放一会儿是可以的，但要强迫自己去思考，去彻底清查你的“材料库”，一定能找到符合命题的材料。经过多次“强迫自己写”，思路打开了，作文水平也就提高了。

7 “保持文面整洁，书写力求规范”的习惯。现在的青年学生一般很注意自己的仪表，这是无可非议的。“文面”整洁和书写规范就是作文的仪表，自然是非讲究不可的。

[小学三年级记事作文写作指导

今年的作文依然书写青年和时代的话题，比较适合写议论文。虽然形式上可能对学生有一定的难度，而根据写作主题，作文素材选取，和语言表达上，学生依然有较大的发挥空间，比较容易出现佳作。

材料首先提出建团一百年的时代背景，接着第二段从具体人物切入，要求考生在写作时，可有大的视域，不仅就事论事;还可引导考生挖掘小的切入点，以小见大，层层递进，可有深刻思考。考生在写作的时候，可以从“选择”“创造”“未来”等方面进行创作，同时关注两个问题:一是要将人物和时代紧密联系——建团百年，少年青年责任传承，承担着时代的责任，青年应抓住建团百年的时代契机，牢记使命担当，为祖国的建设积蓄力量。另一方面是将三个主题关键词能建立有机联系，而不各自分立。青年响应时代召唤，确定职业选择，更要将个人融入到时代发展中，矢志创新，这样会更好地建设祖国的未来。

因此，也可从选择是青年面向未来的方向，创造是青年实现未来的途径和方法。这样在新时代环境下去写个人的选择与创造，在个人的选择创造中展现美好未来，各个点也能较好融合。

My room

Have a look at my room. It’s small but nice/beautiful. There is a big bed in my room. My hat and my school bag are on the bed, My bookcase is near the bed, My books are in the bookcase. My table is in front of the bookcase. My computer is on the table. My soccer ball is on the floor, under the table.And those are my CDs, They are in my backpack..

Water Pollution

With the development of industry, water pollution isbecoming more serious now. The polluted water not only kills fish, it is also harmful to our health. Many people get sick because they drink the polluted water. In some rivers the water is so dirty that they can even kill plants.

We should fight against the pollution. We should stop using harmful things. I wish it is not a dream that in the near future we can have clean rivers again.

期末考试不远了，上网的时间也越来越少了，可能这是最后几次了吧!!!虽然是第一篇，但我还是会写完的，我写得不好。

临近期末考试，家长管得越来越紧了，我也没有办法呀!上次期中考试没有考好，父母就严格控制了我的上网时间，我就像一只笼子里的小鸟!快考试了，我总是心不在焉的，不知道是睡眠不足还是什么，我想干什么，都得通过父母的准许，可是和学习无关的东西他们都会找理由拒绝，我到底该怎么办?我现在才上小学，父母就管得那么紧，以后该怎么办呀?

俗话说：“少年不知愁滋味!”可是我现在却这里烦恼那里犯愁，我才年仅12岁，可是几乎过上了大人那全是苦恼的日子!唉，我真的不知道怎么办?我听爷爷奶奶说，我父母上学的时候也没有那么多的考试呀，现在我们学校里最流行的一句话就是：“考考考，老师的法宝;分分分，学生的命根!”唉，我的爸爸妈妈又在唠叨了，说我上网太长了，可是我才上了半个小时呀!他们要让我关电脑了，不能再写下去了，希望不要有太多的同龄人过我这样的生活，同时也希望我能尽快摆脱烦恼，过上我应该过的生活!

唉，我已经无话可说了。

Dear Manager,

I’m one of the candidates who have applied for the internship in your company.

I’m glad to have received your offer.

Here I’d like to express my gratitude to you and your company sincerely.

As far as I am concerned, the offer is far more than a simplex internship opportunity.

It’s particularly meaningful to me in the following aspects.

First of all, after years of study I can finally put my theoretical knowledge into practice.

By doing so, I feel my individual values will be fully embodied.

Secondly, during my internship period, I’ll meet many well-experienced colleagues.

And they can teach me valuable experience which can’t be acquired from textbooks.

Thirdly, it goes without saying that this internship experience will benefit my future job-hunting, as many recruiters are seeking for experienced employees.

All in all, I will cherish this precious internship opportunity and spare no efforts tocontribute my humble strength to the company.

Please accept my sincerest appreciation for your offer and best wishes for your company.

I’ll prove my worth through hard work.

Yours faithfully，Mike

1. 内容切题

内容切题是命题作文的基本要求，考生可从以下几个方面入手：

第一要认真审题。根据题目类别，弄清文体的要求，并判明文章的种类(议论文、说明文、记叙文)，同时确定文章要阐明的主题或要表达的中心思想，若题目已经提供了提纲，还要注意弄清各提纲要点之间的逻辑关系。考生在拿到作文题后，切勿惟恐时间不够，提笔就写。一旦跑题，发现了再改就来不及了，常言道：“磨刀不误砍柴工”。

第二要注意设计安排段落。根据文章的中心思想，确定各个段落的主题内容和主题句。如果是议论文，一般要从论点的正反两个方面来考虑，首先是某观点的合理成分或某物的长处，然后是该观点的不合理成分或该物的短处，最后阐明自己的观点。如果题目提供了提纲，只要把提纲扩展成主题句即可。

第三要避免将记忆里较熟悉的句子生拉硬扯地搬进作文，使作文结构松散，意思不明确，甚至会偏离主题。

2. 表达清楚，文字连贯

文章要做到表达清楚，文字连贯，文章各段落就必须根据提纲所确立的不同主题来展开，而且各段落的主题句要将段落的各个部分凝聚在一起，流利地表达段落大意，使段落中各部分以及段落之间的联系一目了然。

3. 句式有变化

有些考生对写作没信心，不敢大胆地使用所掌握的语言基础知识，包括英语句法知识，结果整篇文章都是以主、谓、宾句式为主的简单句子，文章显得刻板无生气。实际上，

记叙文一直都是常考作文题型，那么记叙文会写吗？下面是小编为大家整理的记叙文写作小技巧，希望能帮到您！

技巧1、对于故事中的人物，一定要注重细节刻画，特别是细微的动作刻画。

《米粒?谷粒?血汗》

无助的他用筷子无助地在碗里捣腾着，突然那雪白的米饭进出了一点黄色，那是一粒谷，和父亲那古铜的脸有着一样的颜色。他的心颤抖起来，小时候给父亲送饭的一幕又浮现在眼前。

那是一个炎夏的夏的正午，父亲坐在田垄上吃着他送的饭，也是吃到浅底的时候，几粒黄色的谷露了出来。“扔掉吧，阿爸。”“胡扯!”父亲像豹子一样吼了一声，他一辈子也没见父亲如此愤怒过，接下来的情形更让他终生难忘：父亲将筷子插在田垅上，用那满是泥巴的手将谷粒一粒一粒地拈起来放进嘴里，锁着眉头，然后是艰难的一咽……“孩子，那是咱农家的血汗呀!”父亲对满腹委屈的他说。

技巧2、灵活运用人物细节描写和环境细节描写的各种方法。

例一：他拿着书本走进教室。(叙述)

一位慈眉善目的银发老者左手拿着书，右手拄着拐杖，步履蹒跚地走进教室。

神态描写 肖像描写 动作描写

叙述：概括 客观，感情色彩不强

描写：具体 感情色彩非常鲜明

例二、试卷发下来了，班里的同学情态各异。(叙述)

试卷发下来了，整个班级顿时像个炸开的锅。有的人洋洋自得，翘起二郎腿，腿不停地上下摆动，有一种飘飘然的感觉;有的人把头埋在桌子上，不用问就知：一定没考好;有的则拿着得分不高不低的卷子叽叽喳喳地议论着;有的则拿起笔开始订正自己的试卷;我的同桌——他一手拍着试卷，一手拍着大腿，不住地嚷嚷着：“天啊!我不想活了!怎么连这么简单的题都做错了，我干脆拿块豆腐撞死好了……”

点面结合 动作描写 语言描写

例三、他拿着书来到阅览室，很努力地挤到座位上。(叙述)

刚走到阅览室的门口，一股热气就迎面扑来。踏进阅览室一瞧，嗬，人真多啊!他们坐的坐，站的站，仿佛老僧入定般沉浸在书本的世界里;还有挤来挤去找位子的，觅书报的……然而周围却静得出奇，只有日光灯发出‘兹——’的声响和轻微翻书的声音。他不禁屏息静气，抱紧书本，踮起脚跟，小心翼翼地插进去，东扭西挪地避开人群，好不容易才发现了一个空位。他就立刻闪过去坐下。

动静结合 渲染 白描 动作描写(细微的细节刻画)

小结方法

人物细节描写：神态描写、动作描写、心理描写、语言描写、外貌描写

环境细节描写：白描 渲染 点面结合 动静结合

以往我们备战高考作文，多从文体和命题形式的角度考虑。其实，从高考作文可能的命题内容这一角度来备考，也不失为一个好办法。

本次介绍的“人与自然”类作文颇具现实意义，契合当今建设环境友好型社会的主题，同学们应引起足够的重视。

“人与自然”类作文的三个话题

依据笔者的认识，“人与自然”类作文主要涉及三个话题。

1、欣赏自然，表述自然之美

《普通高中语文课程标准(实验)》指出：“自然风光、文物古迹、风俗民情，国内外和地方的重要事件，学生的家庭生活以及日常生活话题等都可以成为语文课程的资源。”由此，我们不难理解为什么各种版本的语文教材中都有大量自然风光类的文章了。我们生活在神奇而美丽的大自然中，自然界蕴含着各种美：动态美和静态美互相补充，阳刚美和阴柔美兼而有之……我们不仅要将足迹留在山水里，还要用自己的彩笔描绘大自然的如画风光。

2、体悟自然，书写自然美景引发的人生感怀

着名诗人徐志摩在名篇《翡冷翠山居闲话》中写道“只要你自己性灵上不长疮瘢，眼不盲，耳不塞”，大自然“这无形迹的最高等教育便永远是你的名分，这不取费的最珍贵的补剂便永远供你受用。只要你认识了这一部书，你在这世界上寂寞时便不寂寞，穷困时不穷困，苦恼时有安慰，挫折时有鼓励，软弱时有督责……”。

3、敬畏自然，反思生态的恶化，呼吁人类善待万物

有个叫西雅图的印第安酋长，曾有一段发人深省的话：“人类属于大地。但大地不属于人类。世界上万物都是相互关联的，就像血液把我们身体的各个部分连接在一起。生命之网并非人类所编织。人类不过是这个网络中的一根线、一个结。但人类所做的一切，最终会影响到这个网络，也影响到人类本身。”的确，我们应把自己看成大自然生态链中的一个组成部分，思考人与自然的和谐相处方式。

习作欣赏

阅读下面的文字，根据要求写一篇不少于800字的文章。

地球诞生至今，已有46亿年。46亿年的漫长岁月。才造就了今天这么一个鸟语花香的美好世界——人类赖以生存的世界。

可是，作为万物之灵的人类竟愚蠢地毁坏赖以生存的环境：乱砍滥伐原始森林，乱捕滥杀野生动物，盲目开采地下矿藏，肆意排放工业废水……于是水土流失了，绿洲消失了，土地沙化了，气候恶劣了……环境污染与生态破坏已成为举世关注的重大问题。今天，人们才发现保护环境的重要意义。

要求选择一个角度构思作文，自主确定立意，确定文体，确定标题;不要脱离材料内容及含意的范围作文，不要套作，不得抄袭。

人，真的很聪明吗徐宗璐

人类从亘古的荒原走来。一直走到高楼林立的都市：人类从愚昧落后的部落走来，一直走到文明和开化的现代社会。这一路高歌猛进，无不说明人类是这个世界上最聪明的生物，不愧为“宇宙之精华，万物之灵长”。近几百年来，人类的聪明才智更是发挥到了极致：蒸汽机、电、核能……这一切的一切，不断显示着人类的智慧和力量。然而。仅凭这些。就能断言人类是最聪明的吗?就能判定现在的世界优于过去，并预测未来的世界一定更美好吗?

我的回答是：不能!

仰望天空。候鸟凄厉的叫声，带来远方战火依然的消息：驰骋高原，再难见到藏羚羊奔跑的矫健身姿……这一切，又是谁造下的孽?

大量的事实告诉我们，有许多人只受到功利的影响。而没有接受智慧的启蒙。近代的战争多数已不单纯为了正义，更多的是为了物欲和私利。这充分暴露出人性中贪婪、自私和暴戾的一面。有些国家为了不可告人的目的，使用贫铀弹等杀人武器，丝毫不顾对环境的破坏，导致受难地区的无奉百姓患癌症等疾病的比例大幅度上升。这不仅仅是愚蠢，更是道德的沦丧，是彻头彻尾的

犯罪。还有，由于人类无节制地向大自然掠夺索取，致使环境日益恶化。生物种类大幅度减少。300亿年前地球上大约有25亿个物种，现在仅存1亿个左右。在已灭绝的约24亿个物种中，有60%是20世纪灭绝的。从17世纪起，动物的灭绝进入了加速时期。据联合国环境规划署统计，现在仅存的约1亿个物种中，鸟类每两年灭绝1种，兽类每一年就灭绝1种。今后的趋势是：植物可能以每小时1种的速度灭绝，动物可能每天减少1种。我不禁想问，仅有的这些物种在地球上还能支撑多久?大海雀、渡渡鸟、旅鸽、卡罗莱纳鹦鹉、高加索野牛……这些早已被人类灭绝的动物，如果能够复活的话，我们从它们眼中看到的将是平和、善意，还是愤怒与敌意?事实上，现在连看一看敌意的目光也成了一种无法实现的奢望。

人类只是地球生命之网上的一段绳索，人类施之于这“网”的，也是人类施之于自己的。人类的文明已经让这张“网”变得千疮百孔。人类用科技来防止小行星将地球“咬”出一个缺口，是聪明的，但自己将这张生命之“网”撕扯得破败不堪。那就不能不说是糊涂之极了。也许有时残缺是一种美，但对整个地球生态环境来说，残缺决不是美!我们需要一个完整而美好的地球。造物主给了人类一个美丽的星球，人类应该怀着感恩的心与地球和谐相处。

21世纪的钟声早已敲响。可我们是否应该将20世纪乃至前几个世纪人类的所作所为放在一架一头是聪明另一头是愚蠢的天平上称一下，看看哪一头会更重?或许，对于未来世界而言，这样做能使我们免生许多遗憾。

期末考试的感受

从小学开始，期末考试对我来说已是家常便饭。大考、小考……相信大家也早已司空见惯了。期末考试带给我有成功的喜悦，也带给我失败的懊恼。随着时间的流逝，我渐渐将它们淡忘了，惟独今年的期末考试让我有了不一样的看法。

“零零”上课铃响了，我怀着紧张的情绪走进教室，因为这节课要发期末语文期末考试卷了。我在座位上左晃晃，右晃晃，手和脚也在不停的抖动着。

当时针指向八点半时，那激动人心的时刻最后要来临了，本来心里想着就应会很难，结果试卷发下来一看，我顿时呆住了，比我妈妈给我复习时的资料简单多了。我瞬间像住满了活力似的，提起笔“哗哗哗”就把前面的资料写完了。

看到作文题目是与什么聊聊天，这多好写呀，可我转念又想要有些新意说不定会更好呢！于是我的题目就定为了与外星人人聊聊天，是不是很奇特呢！

那天，我绞尽脑汁，费尽心思总算把作文做完了。累呀！真不知为此阵亡了多少位光荣的烈士——脑细胞。真是期望能够考个好分数，“烈士们”死也瞑目了。

在我觉得吧，这次期末考试与以往最不一样的地方就在于实在是太简单了，让人都难以置信你面前的这份试卷竟然是期末期末考试的试卷，如果以后的期末考试都如同此次的期末考试这么简单就好了（幻想中）……

不管这次考得好不好，我都期望下次能考得更好，因为我喜欢成功的感觉。老师请您放心吧！我要为期末考试而努力，为努力而学习，为学习而坚持不懈。认真与努力是学习的珍宝，我要为成功而奋斗。我要告诉自己“我会努力奋斗并且成功的！

导语：语文是一门集人文性和工具性相统一的基础性学科,高考,作为选拔人才的高规格的考试,自然对语文这门基础学科要进行考察,而且要求也更高。为了让大家充分地做好高考备考，以更好的状态迎接高考，以下是小编为大家精心整理的高考语文记叙文写作手法，欢迎大家参考！

第一人称叙事法

由于文章的内容是通过“我”传达给读者，表示文章中所写的都是叙述人的亲眼所见，亲耳所闻，或者就是叙述者本人的亲身经历，使读者得到一种亲切真实的感觉。

采用第一人称，由于叙述人是当事人，所以叙述的人与事，只能是“我”活动范围内的人物和事件。活动范围以外的人物和事情就不能写进去。

第三人称叙事法

用第三人称叙事，叙述人既不受空间、时间的限制，也不受生理、心理的限制。可以直接把文章中的人和事展现在读者面前，能自由灵活地反映社会生活。但第三人称叙事又往往不如第一人称叙事那么亲切自然。

顺叙法

顺叙是按时间的先后顺序来叙述事情，这就跟事情发生发展的实际情况相一致，所以易于把文章写得条理清楚，脉络分明。运用顺叙，要注意剪裁得当，重点突出。否则，容易出现罗列现象，犯平铺直叙的毛病，像一本流水帐，使人读了索然无味。

倒叙法

倒叙并不是把整个事件都倒过来叙述，而是除了把某个部分提前外，其他仍是顺叙的方法。

采用倒叙的情况一般有三种：一是为了表现文章中心思想的需要，把最能表现中心思想的部分提到前面，加以突出;

二是为了使文章结构富于变化，避免平铺直叙;三是为了表现效果的需要，使文章曲折有致，造成悬念，引人入胜。

倒叙时要交代清楚起点。倒叙与顺叙的转换处，要有明显的界限，还要有必要的文字过渡，做到自然衔接。

特别要注意，不要无目的地颠来倒去，反反复复，使文章的眉目不清。

插叙法

插叙是为了表达文章中心的需要。

有时是为了帮助读者了解故事情节的追叙;有时是对出场人物的情节作注释、说明。

使用插叙一定要服从表达中心思想的需要，做到不节外生枝，不喧宾夺主。

在插入叙述的时候，还要注意文章的过渡、照应和衔接，不能有断裂的痕迹。

补叙法

补叙主要用于对上文的叙述补充说明，一般是片断性的、简要的，不具备完整的事件，也可以把解释或说明的文字放在前面，以引起下文。补叙的作用，一般不发展情节、事件，只对原来的叙述起丰富、补充作用。

分叙法

分叙的作用是把头绪纷繁、错综复杂的事情，写得眉目清楚，有条不紊。

分叙可以先叙一件，再叙另一件，也可以几件事情进行交叉地叙述。采用分叙时要根据文章内容和表达中心思想的需要确立叙述的线索，还要交代清楚每一事件发生和发展的时间。

详叙法

详叙一般用在对每件事发展变化过程的具体叙写。

详叙时要抓住人物的特征或事情的细节进行详尽、细致的描叙。作文

下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言，考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章，然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。

对于素材中用黑体字的部分，特别建议你熟读，背诵，因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白，表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累，潜移默化。从某种意义上说，提高英语写作能力无捷径可走，你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关，没有任何人能代替你过。

因此，建议你下点苦功夫，把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况，并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心：你可以这个星期背，下个星期忘。这没有关系，相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你会惊讶的发现：I can think in English now！

1.?????? Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.

2. Damaging Research

A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.

3. Education and Citizenship

An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.

Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.

Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.

Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.

4. The Teacher’s Role

Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.

Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.

5. Education Philosophy

For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.

In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.

This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.

6. Student Life

To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.

Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.

Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)

What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.

Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.

7. Adult Education

After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”

So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.

8. Moral Relativism in American

Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.

Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.

In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”

Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.

In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”

The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.

The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.

At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.

The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.

But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.

There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.

9. Schools Should Teach Values

People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”

There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.

As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”

This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.

We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.

What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.

These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.

After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.

10. College Pressures

Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.

What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.

“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”

Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.

It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.

The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.

Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.

Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.

Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.

I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.

“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.

“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”

“Then why are you going?”

“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”

Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”

But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.

I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.

Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.

“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”

Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.

Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.

“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”

Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.

To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.

If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.

Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.

“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”

“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”

I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.

Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.

This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.

They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.

If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.

I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.

I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.

11. To Err Is Wrong

In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?

Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.

Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:

Right over 90% of the time = “A”

Right over 80% of the time = “B~”

Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.

From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.

Playing It Safe

With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.

I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.

Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.

Different Logic

From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.

Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.

Errors as Stepping Stones

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.

The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.

Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.

Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.

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