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1000六级英语写作的七大要点
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+ 加入清单作文是六级考试的一个重要得分部分,可说起写作技巧,很多同学都会皱眉头,抱怨无话可写,内容平淡。下面是小编整理的六级写作的七大要点,欢迎阅读。
一、 长短句原则。
工作还得一张一弛呢,老让读者读长句,累死人!写一个短小精辟的句子,相反,却可以起到画龙点睛的作用。而且如果我们把短句放在段首或者段末,也可以揭示主题:As a creature, I eat; as a man, I read. Although one action is to meet the primary need of my body and the other is to satisfy the intellectual need of mind, they are in a way quite similar. 如此可见,长短句结合,抑扬顿挫,岂不爽哉?牢记!
强烈建议:在文章第一段(开头)用一长一短,且先长后短;在文章主体部分,要先用一个短句解释主要意思,然后在阐述几个要点的时候采用先短后长的句群形式,定会让主体部分妙笔生辉!文章结尾一般用一长一短就可以了。
二、 主题句原则。
国有其君,家有其主,文章也要有其主。否则会给人造成“群龙无首”之感!相信各位读过一些破烂文学,故意把主体隐藏在文章之内,结果造成我们稀里糊涂!不知所云!所以奉劝各位一定要写一个主题句,放在文章的开头(保险型)或者结尾,让读者一目了然,必会平安无事!
特别提示:隐藏主体句可是要冒险的!To begin with, you must work hard at your lessons and be fully prepared before the exam(主题句). Without sufficient preparation, you can hardly expect to answer all the questions correctly.
三、 一 二 三原则。
领导讲话总是第一部分、第一点、第二点、第三点、第二部分、第一点… 如此罗嗦。可毕竟还是条理清楚。考官们看文章也必然要通过这些关键性的“标签”来判定你的文章是否结构清楚,条理自然。破解方法很简单,只要把下面任何一组的词汇加入到你的几个要点前就清楚了。
1)first, second, third, last(不推荐,原因:俗)
2)firstly, secondly, thirdly, finally(不推荐,原因:俗)
3)the first, the second, the third, the last(不推荐,原因:俗)
4)in the first place, in the second place, in the third place, lastly(不推荐,原因:俗)
5)to begin with, then, furthermore, finally(强烈推荐)
6)to start with, next, in addition, finally(强烈推荐)
7)first and foremost, besides, last but not least(强烈推荐)
8)most important of all, moreover, finally
9)on the one hand, on the other hand(适用于两点的情况)
10)for one thing, for another thing(适用于两点的情况)
建议:不仅仅在写作中注意,平时说话的时候也应该条理清楚!
四、短语优先原则。
写作时,尤其是在考试时,如果使用短语,有两个好处:其一、用短语会使文章增加亮点,如果老师们看到你的文章太简单,看不到一个自己不认识的短语,必然会看你低一等。相反,如果发现亮点—精彩的短语,那么你的文章定会得高分了。
其二、关键时刻思维短路,只有凑字数,怎么办?用短语是一个办法!比如:I cannot bear it. 可以用短语表达:I cannot put up with it. I want it. 可以用短语表达:I am looking forward to it. 这样字数明显增加,表达也更准确。
五、多实少虚原则
原因很简单,写文章还是应该写一些实际的东西,不要空话连篇。这就要求一定要多用实词,少用虚词。我这里所说的虚词就是指那些比较大的词。
比如我们说一个很好的时候,不应该之说nice这样空洞的词,应该使用一些诸如generous, humorous, interesting, smart, gentle, warm-hearted, hospitable 之类的形象词。
再比如: 走出房间,general的词是:walk out of the room 但是小偷走出房间应该说:slip out of the room 小姐走出房间应该说:sail out of the room 小孩走出房间应该说:dance out of the room 老人走出房间应该说:stagger out of the room 所以多用实词,少用虚词,文章将会大放异彩!
六、 多变句式原则。
1)加法(串联)都希望写下很长的句子,像个老外似的,可就是怕写错,怎么办,最保险的写长句的方法就是这些,可以在任何句子之间加and, 但最好是前后的句子又先后关系或者并列关系。比如说:I enjoy music and he is fond of playing guitar. 如果是二者并列的,我们可以用一个超级句式:Not only the fur coat is soft, but it is also warm. 其它的短语可以用:besides, furthermore, likewise, moreover
2)转折(拐弯抹角)批评某人缺点的时候,我们总习惯先拐弯抹角说说他的优点,然后转入正题,再说缺点,这种方式虽然阴险了点,可毕竟还比较容易让人接受。所以呢,我们说话的时候,只要在要点之前先来点废话,注意二者之间用个专这次就够了。The car was quite old, yet it was in excellent condition. The coat was thin, but it was warm. 更多的短语:despite that, still, however, nevertheless, in spite of, despite, notwithstanding
3)因果(so, so, so)昨天在街上我看到了一个女孩,然后我主动搭讪,然后我们去咖啡厅,然后我们认识了,然后我们成为了朋友…可见,讲故事的时候我们总要追求先后顺序,先什么,后什么,所以然后这个词就变得很常见了。其实这个词表示的是先后或因果关系!The snow began to fall, so we went home. 更多短语:then, therefore, consequently, accordingly, hence, as a result, for this reason, so that
4)失衡句(头重脚轻,或者头轻脚重)有些人脑袋大,身体小,或者有些人脑袋小,身体大,虽然我们不希望长成这个样子,可如果真的是这样了,也就必然会吸引别人的注意力。文章中如果出现这样的句子,就更会让考官看到你的句子与众不同。其实就是主语从句,表语从句,宾语从句的变形。举例:This is what I can do. Whether he can go with us or not is not sure. 同样主语、宾语、表语可以改成如下的复杂成分:When to go, Why he goes away…
5)附加(多此一举)如果有了老婆,总会遇到这样的情况,当你再讲某个人的时候,她会插一句说,我昨天见过他;或者说,就是某某某,如果把老婆的话插入到我们的话里面,那就是定语从句和同位语从句或者是插入语。The man whom you met yesterday is a friend of mine. I don’t enjoy that book you are reading. Mr liu, our oral English teacher, is easy-going. 其实很简单,同位语--要解释的东西删除后不影响整个句子的构成;定语从句—借用之前的关键词并且用其重新组成一个句子插入其中,但是whom or that 关键词必须要紧跟在先行词之前。
6)排比(排山倒海句)文学作品中最吸引人的地方莫过于此,如果非要让你的文章更加精彩的话,那么我希望你引用一个个的排比句,一个个得对偶句,一个个的不定式,一个个地词,一个个的短语,如此表达将会使文章有排山倒海之势!Whether your tastes are modern or traditional, sophisticated or simple, there is plenty in London for you. Nowadays, energy can be obtained through various sources such as oil, coal, natural gas, solar heat, the wind and ocean tides. We have got to study hard, to enlarge our scope of knowledge, to realize our potentials and to pay for our life. (气势恢宏) 要想写出如此气势恢宏的句子非用排比不可!
七、挑战极限原则。
既然十挑战极限,必然是比较难的,但是并非不可攀!原理:在学生的文章中,很少发现诸如独立主格的句子,其实也很简单,只要花上5分钟的时间看看就可以领会,它就是分词的一种特殊形式,分词要求主语一致,而独立主格则不然。比如:The weather being fine, a large number of people went to climb the Western Hills. Africa is the second largest continent, its size being about three times that of China. 如果你可以写出这样的句子,不得高分才怪!
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篇1:小学英语写作方法和技巧
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+ 加入清单要写好英语作文,具体要做到以下几点:
注重英文阅读习惯的养成与坚持
坚持英语阅读的习惯,不仅可以保持对英语语感的敏感度,更重要的是它有助于培养英式思维,从而避免汉式思维句子的出现。
(1)平时多读,积累句型:读的越多,语感欲强烈,写作的时候自然而然就可以自如的运用灵活多变的句式来完整一篇小作文了,另外建议多积累名言警句、谚语等以作为高级句型运用与作文中。
(2)选出一些代表性范文精读:选出不同题材的优秀作文范文,读的时候注意文章的开头、结尾、层次结构以及所用句型等。要有目的、用学习的心态来精读优秀范文,并做到学以致用。
注重平时的写作训练
英语写作训练可以以日记、话题或仿写的形式来进行。通过坚持一个学期的英语日记,保持英语写作的习惯。所以一定要坚持每周两到三次的写作训练,正所谓习惯成自然就是这个道理。
五步写出一篇好作文
什么才是好作文呢?很多同学误认为只要像学校平时测验那样子“句子结构正确,无单词拼写错误”就应该得满分。而小升初对作文的考核并非如此简单,同学们应该走出对英语写作认识上的误区。那么除了以上两个方面外,我们怎样才能写出一篇优秀作文而在小升初中获取高分呢?下面就来看我们的“高分作文五步法”。
(1)认真审题,确定时态人称,同时关注题材格式
时态:故事性文章一般用过去时,其中表达感受时可用现在时。说明性或议论性文章一般用现在时,举例时可用过去时。根据题目要求也会出现时态的交错使用,如过去和现在的对比等。如果句中出现了时间状语,时态则要遵循时间状语。
如ago,last…过去时;next,in…将来时等
人称:注意在句子中人称的统一。
例如:
Thanks to the teachers, we have improved our English.
其中we和our就是人称的统一。
格式:注意书信格式的开头和结尾。
(2)找全信息点,紧扣主题,突出重点
切忌只看表格中或所列1、2、3中的信息点。一定把题读全,找齐信息点,建议用铅笔标出,写完后再涂掉。根据题目,可适当增加合理内容。特别注意文章要有开头和结尾。
(3)成文时表述正确,文字流畅
切忌与汉语提示的一一对应,使用所学表达方法将语义表达出来即可。首先考虑句子结构(如主谓宾,主系表等)。同时注意短语的正确使用和单词的拼写,最好使用课本上学过的短语和句式。
(4)文章结构清晰,重点句型画龙点睛,可使文章在得分上提高一个档次,考虑文章的篇章结构,使用适当的连接短语,使文章结构紧凑。
常用连接词:
1.表文章结构顺序:
First of all, Firstly/First,Secondly/Second…
And then, Finally, In the end,At last
2.表并列补充关系的:
What is more, Besides,Moreover,
3.表转折对比关系的:
However, On the contrary, but
On one hand… On the otherhand…Some…, while others…
4.表因果关系的:
Because, As、So, Therefore, As a result
5.表换一种方式表达:
In other words
6.表进行举例说明:
For example,句子;For instance,句子;such as + n/doing
7.表陈述事实:In fact
8.表达自己观点:
As far as I know, In myopinion
9.表总结:
In short, In a word.
文中正确使用两三个好的句型,如:感叹句、宾语从句、动名词做主语等。
宾语从句举例:
I believe Tianjin will be morebeautiful and prosperous.
感叹句举例:
How I want to study in thebest middle school in Guangzhou!
动名词做主语举例:
Reading books and swimming aremy hobbies.
常用状语从句句型:
1)时间:
when, not…until(直到…才…), as soon as(一…就…)
2)目的:
so that + clause; (为了)
3)结果:
so…that…(如此…以至于…), too…to do(太……以至于……)
4)条件:
if, unless(除非), as long as(只要)
5)比较:
as…as…(与…一样), not so…as…, than
(5)认真检查,检查信息点是否全面,时态、人称是否一致,句子结构是否清晰,短语使用、单词拼写是否准确等。
检查后,将草稿誊写在纸上,请注意按结构分段,书写清晰。
下面列举一些在检查中可发现的错误:
We livemore and more comfortable.
改正:comfortably(副词修饰动词)
2.we can getmany informations by reading newspapers.
改正:much information (不可数名词由much修饰)
3.There willhave a football game tomorrow.
改正:There will be a football game tomorrow.(Therebe句型的将来时结构)
4.I thinkride a bike can keep our health.
改正:I think riding a bike can keep us healthy.(动名词作主语)
篇2:小学英语写作技巧指导
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+ 加入清单写作教学对于帮助学生了解英语思维方式,形成用英语进行思维的习惯,提高学生综合运用语言知识的能力大有益处。下面是小编为你带来的小学英语写作技巧指导,欢迎阅读。
对于小学3年级的学生,在他们已经掌握好了如颜色(colour)、衣服(clothes)、数字(number)、星期(day of the week)、月份(month)、宠物(pet)、情感(feeling)、身体部位(body)、文具(school things)的基础上进行文章的填空,如果学生能够按照文章的要求写进相关的信息,那就已经很不错了。下面是一个自我介绍的简单例子:
Myself
Hello,my name is_____. I am_____years old.My favourite colour is_____,_____, and_____.My favourite pet is______,_____ and______. My favourite food is_____,______and______.My favourite day is______. My favourite school thing is______and______.My favourite number is and______.I am______today.
上面的这个例子,如果学生能够依次能吧自己的姓名、年龄、喜欢的颜色、喜欢的宠物、喜欢的食物、喜欢的日子、喜欢的文具、喜欢的数字和今天的心情准确无误地写出来,那么就已经能够完成了3年级阶段的作文要求。
对于4年级的学生,可以写一篇介绍自己课室或者自己卧室的文章。下面是一篇4年级学生的介绍课室范文。
My classroom
I am studying at Tongji primary school.I am in Class Two, Grade Four. (介绍自己所在的学校和所在的年级) There is a blackboard in front of the classroom. There are twenty-five desks in our classroom, they are brown. There are many books on the desk. There are fifty students, thirty boys and twenty girls. There is a picture on the wall. There are two fans on the wall. (用there+be句型把班里和摆设和班上的人数都表达出来了) It is tidy and clean.I like my classroom very much.(最后是作者的总结)
对于5年级的学生,作文的要求也提高了很多,很多学生在介绍别人或者是写自己喜欢的小动物的时候很容易忘了第三人称单数动词要加ses,如:He get up at 7 o’clock(get忘了加s),在用到现在进行的时候动词很容易忘了加ing(如I am play the piano,play就忘记了加ing),介词和介词短语也占了很重要的位置如介词in,on,at,of。介词短语如dream of(区分dream that)和be afraid of都是很重要的介词短语,很多学生忘记了介词后面要加动词。
对于6年级的学生,作文考查的是英语的综合应用能力,而且出的题目大部分都是看图作文,这就在一定程度上增加了写作的难度,它也是综合了3年级的分类词汇,4年级的句型,方位介词,5年级的重点介词短语和时态,不过我相信只要平时多点积累单词和句型、多点动笔、多注意语法上的问题、多看作文书,那么就能写出流畅、有深度的文章。
篇3:浅谈高分作文写作技巧
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+ 加入清单由于话题作文内容开放,写作空间宽,灵活性大,能充分张扬学生的个性,展示学生的写作特长,近年来,无论是高考还是中考,话题作文已越来越普及,越来越受出题者和应试者的青睐。那么,初三学生如何在中考中使话题作文得高分呢?不可忽视以下几点:
一、一个好的写作心态。
有些考生作文时惟恐写不完,略作思考便慌忙提笔,一挥而就,这样的作文难以做到文质兼美。实践证明:初中生在40分钟内完成600字的文章是没有问题的。面对话题,成功的心态便是自信。镇定自如,才会激情投入,激活思维,展示自己的最佳水平。
二、一个清爽的卷面。
这是考生作文给阅卷者的第一感觉。中考阅卷时间紧,任务重,适值酷暑,潦草的卷面难以赢得评卷者的好感。书写规范,文面整洁,本身就是对阅卷者的尊重。为此,考生既要写快,又要写好。即使字体不十分美观,也要尽最大的努力,做到字体匀称,字不能太小,也不能占满全格,更不能出格。同时,标点符号的使用要规范、正确,不能全文只有两个标点符号(即一个逗号加一个句号)。
三、一个明确的中心。
“文以载道”。考生应从所给的材料中,提炼出正确、新颖、深刻的观点,让此观点统摄全文。在文中,文章的中心要明确而突出,表现出正面、积极向上、有教育意义的主题。不应表现消极情绪,比如:以尽情玩耍为欢乐;以学校、家长对学生的学习质量要求高为苦恼等等。其次内容要有主次,要突出重点。
四、一个精彩的题目。
“题好一半文”。话题作文既然允许自拟题目,考生就不应放弃展示自己写作功力的机会。题目角度宁小勿大,语言努力做到凝练、含蓄、优美,力求让阅卷者“一见钟情”。
1、用修辞方法拟题,如以“假日”为话题,可用比喻拟题,拟为《假日---爱的桥梁》,将桥梁比喻成爱的桥梁,在父母离婚后,“我”被判给爸爸,于是利用假日与妈妈构筑了一条情感的纽带。又如以“感受生活”为话题,可拟为《苦咖啡》,这便运用了双关,既实指咖啡,又暗指生活,通过叙述自己在校独自锻炼的苦,折射出其中的甜。
2、可移用诗词名句、歌词等来拟题目,如以“灯”为话题,可拟为《一晌贪欢》,引用了李煜的词《浪淘沙》中的“不知梦里身是客,一晌贪欢”,写“我”是李煜书桌上的油灯,突出了悲凉、伤感之情。以“我”为话题,可用《真我风采》、《最近比较烦》、《我想唱歌可不敢唱》……
3、可以用扩展法,就是在话题的前或后加上适当而生动的词语,从而拟出适合自己写的题目,这样在规定的范围内,使话题变小,更有针对性。如以“掌声”为话题,拟为《她的掌声,给我一个天堂》;以“变”为话题,拟为《风中不变的承诺》。此外,还有可以反弹琵琶,题目体现新颖创新;设置悬念,让题目引人入胜等等。
五、一个亮丽的开头。
古人行文讲究“凤头”,也就是说文章的开头要写得精彩。可采用的方式有:开门见山,直接切题;写景状物,渲染气氛;设置悬念,引出下文;抒情议论,奠定感情基调等等。切忌开头洋洋洒洒几百字后,仍不见内容与话题有关。
六、一个新颖的结构形式。
考场作文,形式和内容同等重要。一个匠心独具的形式,也会让阅卷者眼睛一亮,对眼前的作文增添几分好感,无形中就给作文打了高分。比如::
1、可以采用题记,揭示文章的主旨。以“相信自己”为话题,题记定为“不要抱怨自己的命运,我们都是上帝的宠儿;不要畏惧山外的山,人外的人。相信自己:你就是山外之山,人外之人”(选自《写给昨日自卑的我》)。又如以“自然”为话题,题记定为“我愿做只井底之蛙,那儿清凉又舒爽,那儿隐蔽又安全。来,来,来,请跟我来,跳到井底,远离人类”(选自《一只井底蛙的劝世格言》)。
2、可以使用小标题,使内容简洁醒目。比如《种太阳》一文用了三个小标题:“童年”、“我的大学”、“在人间”,巧妙地运用高尔基的小说三部曲的名字,很有层次感,使文章新颖独特。再如《江雪》一文中既有题记,又有小标题,它的题记是“希望一切都只有因为是雪,因为它会很快地融化,但一切都只因为是雪吗?”四个小标题却又是《江雪》一诗的四句话。再如《成长中的酸甜苦辣》一文分四个小标题:1酸如醋酸的幼年;2甜如蜜糖的童年;3苦如黄莲的花季;4辣如辣椒的雨季。
3、可以抒写书信,以情动人;还可以镜头回放,再现生活;还可以采用小说、童话、寓言等等。如《爱无止境》以日记体的形式,用“妈妈的日记”、“女儿的日记”的形式,从不同角度写情、写爱、写人生,新颖活泼,富有创意。
形式创新,贵在“得体”。考生要选用自己最娴熟的一种形式,切不可滥用,否则文不对体,会弄巧成拙的。
此外,在结构形式的安排上,还要注意段落的安排,尽量将文章的段落分细些,张弛有致,灵活多变,从而避免“三段文”。
七、一个优美的片断。
集中笔力,写好一个片断,向阅卷者展示自己的的文学功底。写记叙文的片断,可运用多种描写手法,如景物烘托,白描、语言、动作等手法,同时灵活运用修辞方法;写议论文片断,可用典型的论证方法层层论证,环环相扣;写散文片断,可旁征博引,让思维纵横驰骋,使自己个性得到淋漓尽致的发挥。这样就使文章增添了文采,获得阅卷者的首肯,给打了高分。比如:
感动好像暖暖的春风,“二月春风似剪刀”,给大地带来春的消息,让世界充满生机和活力。
感动仿佛隐隐的春雷,驱散了人们心中的阴霾,使沉睡者苏醒,使懒散者振奋。
感动犹如沥沥的春雨,滋润了干涸的心田,“好雨知时节,润物细无声”。
这是《感动》一文中的语句,比喻恰当、贴切,再加上诗句的引用、排比的形式更增添了文句的韵味。当然,作文中还可引用歌词、名句、警句、歇后语等。
八、一个完美的结尾。
古人写文章讲究“凤头、猪肚、豹尾”。所谓“豹尾”,是指文章结尾要有力,耐人寻味。这样会给阅卷者留下最好的印象。简便易行的结尾有以下几种:照应开头,凸现主题;总结全文,画龙点睛;含蓄蕴藉,耐人寻味等等。一个漂亮精彩的结尾能使中考作文锦上添花,大为增色,给评了高分。
篇4:中考作文写作技巧18条
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+ 加入清单写法上可以求新,要考虑,怎样表现更智慧,更艺术,更有可读性;小编收集了中考满分作文写作技巧,欢迎阅读。
1.充分发挥自己的优势。擅长形象思维、会刻画人物的同学可选择记叙文,擅长抒情的同学可选择散文。初中生一般不提倡写议论文。
2.精写前几段,给评卷老师留下一个好印象。要精雕细刻,要出彩。比如,可开门见山,直奔主题;可制造悬念,引人入胜;可提出问题,引人注意;或巧用排比、比喻、拟人等修辞手法,或。巧述故事,引人入胜,或巧用题记,揭示主旨,或巧用诗文显诗意。写好结尾和过渡段。阅卷老师一般是S型的扫描全文。结尾可画龙点睛,发人深思;或总结全文,照应开头;或虚笔拓展,扩大容量;或精辟议论,深化主旨。
3.要给自己充足的构思时间,不要急于动笔。“宁停三分,不争一秒”,因为写作是“开弓没有回头箭”的,写到一半,突然发现,呀,把题目理解错了,或没领会好命题的要求。最可怕的是文章写到一半,又想另起炉灶。时间没了,心情也坏了。干着急。建议打草稿,防止“三边工程”(边立项,边设计,边施工)。考场作文不宜见异思迁,边写边改。要贯彻一种构思。一旦构思已定,就不要轻易改变。
4.要力避前松后紧、虎头蛇尾。有些同学构思、提纲拟好后,开头反复推敲,精雕细琢,后来发现时间不够,于是草草收兵。此外,要谨慎对待修改。修改一般只着眼于字词方面的,可用米尺比好之后划两横。结构方面不能修改。要保持卷面的整洁美观,要努力做到改动少而效果好。
5.如果偏题或者离题,作文的主要分数就失去了。为防止跑题,可从如下几点做出努力:一是将材料、引语和话题联系起来思考,不可单看话题;二是看自己确立的观点能否用话题所给材料来证明;三是想一想这则材料当初发在媒体上登载是要达到一个什么效果的。万一跑题了,要考虑逆挽,使文章形成一种欲扬先抑的结构形态。
6.一定要完篇。熟话说,好文章是凤头、猪肚、豹尾。没有豹尾,老鼠尾巴也要有一个,绝不能写半头文。用半篇文章给你评分,怎么会得高分?
7.特别要注意不能缺题。不是万不得已,不要以话题做标题。拟题是显示你才气的一个好的平台,不能轻易放弃。缺题影响远不止2分。正好给了评卷老师扣分的理由。
8.文章要有一至两个亮点。学而思老师建议:如果是记叙文,应该用抓人的情节和生动的描写表现你的真情,记叙文不能没有描写。如果是议论文,就一定要有1、2个典型的论据,就应该有纵横捭阖,很深刻的见解。如果是微型小说一定要有巧妙的构思。这个亮点还可以是一句富有哲理的警句,也可以是一个精彩的比喻,也可以是一个超常的搭配(酽酽的歌喉)。总之,要能使评卷老师精神为之一震。
9.行文中要多次扣题,要一路扣题一路歌。材料、引语和话题中的相关文字至少在文中出现三次以上。开头三句话内应点题一次,结尾应回扣标题,“回眸一笑百媚生”。中间至少扣题一次。几次扣题事实上也是在不断地提醒自己不要跑题。有球场上叫暂停的效果,可以调整思路和写法。
10.思想要健康。“思想健康”不是说要你只说冠冕堂皇的话,不是要你刻意拔高,“健康”是针对“病态”、“庸俗”而言的,它的底线是不能欣赏违背法律法规和偏离社会道德的事。恋爱题材是考场作文的禁区,无论考生写得如何缠绵悱恻,真挚动人,因其行为是中学生日常行为规范所不允许的,这类作文自然得不了高分。
11.观点不可太绝对,要留有余地。“义正”未必要“辞严”,“理直”未必就要“气壮”。联系现实生活时,涉及社会黑暗面时,要有分寸,不要一味指责。 “质问京山大冤案”。批评家长、老师和社会要与人为善,抱着协商与治病救人的态度,要提建设性意见。不可尖刻、讽刺、挖苦,甚至恶意地进行人身攻击。
12.临场写作时可以根据题意和你的表达需要想像一个或一类读者就在你的面前。如以“沟通”为话题作文,写与家长的沟通,可想像父母就在身边;写“沟通”之艰难和必要,就好像误解过你的人正在听你倾诉;写国际间通过沟通走向合作,就设想自己参与了国与国的谈判。即使所写文章没有明确的阅读对象,你也可以想像此文是写给你的语文老师的。你要知道,你的文章的惟一读者是那位跟你的语文老师非常相似的人。写记叙文,且最好将主人公设定为自己。想想阅卷老师的喜好,说他们想听的话。尽可能赢得评卷老师的同情。
13.写法上可以求新,要考虑,怎样表现更智慧,更艺术,更有可读性;但更要求稳。我的意见是大家一定要在一种比较稳的情况下,确有把握时才可写小小说或者是写戏剧,或者是写别的,确有把握之后才写这种文体,如果没有把握的话,就选择比较稳妥的老的文体,老的写法。
14.不可按上年或前几年的中考作文思路行文。求新、求变是人们所追求的,中考作文也不例外。但若按上年或前几年的中考作文思路行文,甚至拿来套用,机械模仿,不懂灵活应变,就会吃力不讨好,这也是失分的点。因为阅卷者大都是相对固定的,对以前的中考作文非常熟悉。不主张写诗歌、文言文。
15.苦于材料缺乏则可以突出自己的爱好。你如果喜欢体育,那你就像体育记者一样,叙体育、议体育,只要切合题意就好。你如果喜欢听××的歌、看××的书、爱好上网……你就可以将自己这一方面的经历和感受与命题联系起来。那样就不愁内容贫乏、文思枯竭。不要瞎编乱造。靠编故事骗取老师的眼泪从而获得高分的时代已经一去不复返了。
16.要美化自己,而不是丑化自己。要显现自己的高境界、大抱负、多知识、同情心,要显现自己以天下为己任的豪情。不要出于反衬别人等考虑而故意丑化自己,如果让评卷老师以为你真就是那样,那就麻烦了,因为中考是选拔性考试。从某个角度讲,评卷老师评卷的过程就是一个选择淘汰对象的过程。
17.字数以600-900字为宜。不能给人凑字数的感觉,但也不能拖得太长,不允许加纸条。喜欢写长文的同学,开篇要注意不要放得太开,开口不要太大,能跳过去的就跳过去,要相信读者的理解能力。要注意节省篇幅,要防止高潮来了没地方写了。切忌三段文。要突出的句子(扣题的、表现主旨的、文眼、点睛之笔、抒情议论、议论文的分论点等)最好单独成段。
18.看到题目后,可先搜索一下自己以往所写的优秀作文,看有没有可以再利用的。须要注意的是一定要不牵强。
篇5:小学童话作文写作技巧
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+ 加入清单童话故事能让我们在想象的空间里尽情遨游,让我们陷入一个个生动有趣的故事里,置身于童话故事之中。童话作文怎么写?下面是小编为大家带来的小学童话作文写作技巧,欢迎阅读。
一、我们在写之前要弄清什么是童话 ?
童话:是通过丰富的想象丶幻想和夸张,来塑造形象丶反映生活,对儿童进行思想丶道德教育的一种文学样式。童话,讲述的是虚拟的故事,并不是真实的。其中的"人物",也是假想形象,并非真有其人。但它所表现的人、事、关系、道理,却是现实生活的反映。
童话都有哪些特点呢 ?
第一:写童话需要幻想和夸张
幻想和夸张,是童话的两只"翅膀"。
幻想,是我们对未来生活的想象。童话离不开幻想,幻想离不开夸张。夸张,是对所要表现的对象或某种特征,故意夸大或缩小的一种修辞手法。
没有夸张,幻想的内容就会失去光彩;没有夸张童话中的形象就会暗淡无光;没有夸张,童话的讽刺性就会失去锋芒;没有夸张,童话的语言就会缺乏感染力。
如《皇帝的新装》中,那个爱慕虚荣、愚蠢的赤裸裸的皇帝,在现实生活中可能是不存在的,但我们却相信这个故事,因为现实中就有大量爱慕虚荣、愚蠢的人存在,同时也就应运而产生了那种骗子,他们利用一些人的爱慕虚荣、愚蠢,导演着一幕幕荒延的闹剧。这种幻想,源于生活又高于生活,具有相当高的艺术价值。
第二:写童话需要有拟人化的形象
童话里的形象,大多是拟人化的。童话中,无论是动物、植物,其他东西,都可以像人一样会思考、会说话、会做事、会生活。列宁说过:"儿童的本性是爱听童话的。你给儿童讲故事时,如果其中的鸡儿、狗儿都不会说人话,儿童便没有兴趣。"
第三:写童话需要有奇妙、曲折丶动人丶完整的故事情节。
由于童话创作的主要手法是想象、幻想、夸张和拟人,因此,童话的情节都非常奇妙,洋溢着浓烈的浪漫主义色彩。如《神笔马良》的故事,说的是穷孩子马良,凭顽强刻苦的精神,得到了一支神笔。他拿着这支神笔帮助贫苦大众,智斗财主、皇帝,让人读后无不称快。
童话的写作和要求
优秀的童话都不是凭空产生的,都是作者细心观察现实生活中的人、事、物后,通过"幻想处理",创作出来的。写童话不仅需要细心观察,还要经过一个"幻想处理",也就是"生活幻想化"的过程。只有经过这个过程,生活才能成为童话。在创作童话时,还要注意五点要求:
第一:童话中的幻想是生活的反映,因此要植根于现实。
第二:童话中的夸张一定要突出事物的本质。脱离事物本质的夸张,只能让人感到荒诞、不可信,也就失去了童话的教育意义。
第三:童话中的拟人,一定要抓住事物的特征,符合动植物的特征。
第四:在一篇童话中,表现手法要多样,这样会使你的童话故事显得生动感人。
第五:语言简洁活泼,符合儿童的语言特点。
怎样创编童话故事?
1、利用"假设"进行想象
假设某一具体情况,让学生根据这种情况,结合自己的生活经验进行想象、联想。想象可以超越时空、超越自我,甚至想象出世界上不存在的事物。例如,阿凡
提来到我们当中,会飞的猴子,鳄鱼拿着一支玫瑰花来敲我的门……这些都是合理的想象。这样坚持下来,久而久之,就会想、敢想,就能大胆创新。
2、利用"绘画"展示故事内容,发展想象能力
在"创编童话"过程中,不要以"写故事"的形式把故事内容展示出来,而是打开绘画纸,展开想象,自由作画,把想到的东西画出来。"画好故事"以后,再给画面配上文字,就成为一篇简单的童话故事了。
3、利用"表演"展现故事情节
例如《小红帽》,可以五人一组,分别扮演"小红帽"、"妈妈"、"外婆"、"猎人"、"狼",将故事表演出来,表演时可以加以创造,不要完全按照原文表演。表演后,几个人凑在一起,研究一下怎样给故事欢歌结尾。
4、利用"续编"延续故事内容
如《狼和小羊》一文的结尾是:"狼不想再争辩了,龇着牙,向小羊扑去……"可以大胆想象并续编故事:小羊最终的结局如何呢?如,小羊想了一个好办法战胜了狼,从此过着幸福的生活。这些与众不同的办法,就是你的想象力;把这些想象写下来,就是一篇很好的童话故事了。
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篇6:申论文章写作技巧:策论文
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+ 加入清单国家公务员考试申论大纲明确指出:“申论是主要通过应考者对给定材料的分析、概括、提炼、加工,测查应考者解决实际问题的能力,以及阅读理解能力”,也指出了“申论是测查从事机关工作应当具备的基本能力的考试科目。小编收集了策论文的写作技巧,欢迎阅读。
一、追根溯源——什么是策论文
所谓策论文,简言之即文章的正文部分以提对策为主。近几年的国考和省考文章命题中都有所涉猎,且题干或要求中已限定只能写策论文。例如:
[2013年国考地市]请以“让……大放异彩”为题,写一篇内容充实的文章。
要求:1.用恰当的文字替换“让……大放异彩”中的省略号部分,是指构成一个完整具体的文章标题;2.主题应与“给定资料”相关,但素材不必拘泥于“给定资料”要结合生活中的具体感受,切忌空谈政策;3.观点鲜明,结构完整,语言流畅;4.字数800-1000字。
[2010年广东省考]针对材料中所反应的问题(仅限所给材料),以“进一步加强农民工工作”为题,写一篇800字左右的策论文章。
要求:措施全面,结构完整,条理清晰,行文流畅,针对性强,具有可操作性。
二、明确规范——策论文的文章格式
作为申论的文章写作,行文规范是文章的基本要求,也是体现政府机关工作的基本特点。对于策论文写作理应体现以下之规范:
P1:开头 概括材料,分析主题、提出总论点
P2:分论点一(段首为对策性分论点)
P3:分论点二(段首为对策性分论点)
P4:分论点三(段首为对策性分论点)
P5:结尾 总结升华
从此规范可见,策论文的基本特点在于文章主体段落必须以对策加以呈现,望考生能谨记。
三、避免误区——策论文的注意事项
当前很多考生在写策论文的过程中有以下两个误区:
误区一:策论文即文章只能写对策,不能有分析。这是很多考生在文章写作常犯的一个错误,申论文章的写作在于说理,说理势必有理有据,因此自当有分析有对策,分析愈透彻,方显对策之针对性。
误区二:文章主体段落有对策即为策论文。申论文章角度的区分不在于文章篇幅的大小,对策多即为策论文,这是常见的误解。而根本性的判定文章是否为策论文在于段旨句是否为对策。
四、学以致用——策论文分论点来源
古语有云“他山之石可以攻玉”,不管是作为考生平时的知识积累,或是来自于材料中主题所涉及的对策都可成为文章写作的分论点。
以2013年国考地市文章写作为例,材料中谈到了很多文化发展的对策,例:发展文化人才、搭建文化阵地、扶持本国文化事业、重视传统文化教育,都可成为本文写作的分论点,考生可根据对策与主题之间的关系以及对策之间的密切程度酌情筛选,确定分论点。
同时,考生还可根据平时的积累,对于文化发展的对策也可以结合自身,从实际中出发,例如,扎根群众,提高文化自觉性;认真学习,提升文化自信;抵制西化,捍卫文化尊严等等,从这些方面进行论述,进而打造“人无我有,人有我优”的文章写作亮点。
篇7:英语写作技巧
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1、你想说的最重要的事是什么?如果已经说出来了,在草稿中找出这段话,并在句子下面划线。如果还没有说出来,现在就写。
2、文章里所写的每件事都同主旨相关吗?哪个部分你不需要?如果你写的是当你在银行实习时,意识到自己宁愿成为一名核物理学家,那么坐公交上班这段话就显得十分没有必要了。
3、你做到具体化了吗?如果发现自己只是泛泛而谈,那么就把一般变为具体。
4、你有没有思考并回答读者最想问的问题?
5、你的文章是否像你的人?有没有在陈述自己时过于正式?是不是过于随意?寻找一种适合主题的语调(乏味的语调会毁了一个好故事)。
6、文章中最令你满意的是什么?
7、文章中最令你不满的是什么?哪一部分还不对头?要使它和文章其他部分一样好,你能做什么?
趣味
1、你开头的第一个句子能否抓住读者的注意力?如果你是读者,它能吸引你吗?“我14岁时,我家搬到了吉隆坡”是否同“他们把大货车开过来,上面装着各种各样的箱子。我的东西被他们无情地扔进里面,直到空荡荡的房间里只剩下我一个人。我们又搬家了。”一样吸引人?
2、你的文章是否需要更多的细节?举例来说,如果你已经写了在你志愿服务的野营地里,孩子们教会你“欣赏生活中简单的事情”,你还需要再多写一到两句话,详细描述一下这种教育意味着什么。
3、结尾能让读者们感觉文章已经写完了吗?结束语听上去像是结束语吗?在一篇写自己从错误中汲取教训的文章里,一个总结性的概括,不如某些发自内心的简单写法具有感染力。
4、大声地读你的文章,相信自己的耳朵。你认为这篇文章有趣吗?如果自己都觉得它令人厌倦,想想读者的感觉!
清楚
1、是否每个段落在文章中都有明确的位置?如果不是,就需要做些删除或改写一下。
2、你的读者能轻松地跟上你的思绪吗?有没有需要填充的裂缝或者需要删除的不必要的迂回?
3、有没有一些词或句子显得粗糙或模棱两可?如果有,删除模棱两可的词,加工粗糙的地方。
简洁
1、你的文章到底是从哪里正式开始的?能否把那些引导性的句子删除,直接进入主题?
2、有没有和主题无关的细节?如果有,删掉它们。
3、是否用了很多的词语,其实用一到两个词就可以完全代替?“我要告诉你们的非常重要的一点是,我申请的只有贵校一所学校,那是我从童年开始形成的一生的渴望。”这是一个无比冗长的句子,不如改为:“我只申请了艾莫利大学,因为我一直都想进这所学校。”记住,在一篇短文里,每一个字都要有意义。
用法和风格
1、你把所有的旧词、过时的词都删掉了吗?
2、你用没用主动语态和动作性很强的动词?
3、对句子的长度和结构进行过修改吗?
4、有没有用到描述性的词和比喻的手法?
5、是否避免了使用空洞的修饰语,如“very”,“rather”,“somewhat”等等?
6、如果使用了缩略语,它们是否和文章的风格统一?省略号的位置对不对?
语法
1、主语同动词单复数是否一致?
2、代词与先行词是否一致?
3、代词指代明确吗?(尤其要注意的是“this”和“that”)
4、修饰词的位置是否靠近被修饰词?
5、有没有悬垂结构或放错位置的修饰语?
6、动词的形式同时态及语态一致吗?
7、有没有逗号重叠的情况?
8、有没有发现不完整的句子?
标点符号
1、标点符号是否明确地划分开句子结构?
2、所用的标点符号,如省略号、冒号、波折号、分号、逗号、括号、连字号、引号等是否正确?
3、是否尽量不使用惊叹号?(合适的词语比惊叹号在表达上更为有效)
1、大写字母是否用得正确并前后呼应?
2、数字使用是否相互对应?(十以前的数字最好用拼写的方式,十以后的数字用符号代替。如果搞不清楚,就全用符号表示。)
3、每个词都拼写正确吗?
4、因篇幅所限需要分开的词分得是否正确?
5、你的文章是否打印得整洁?版式是否吸引人?
较对
1、有没有丢掉的词或行?
2、有没有单词错误?
篇8:英语写作训练方法
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+ 加入清单谈及写作训练,学生认为就是勤练笔,其实不然。英语的听、说、读、写四种能力是密切相关、相互渗透的。听和读是领会理解别人表达的思想,说和写是用言语表达思想。写的能力要在听、说、读的基础上进行培养和提高,而写的训练又能进一步提高听、说、读的能力。因此,写作训练应该贯穿于英语教学的全过程,才能真正提高学生的写作能力。
一、多读
“读是写的前提,写是读的升华”。一般而言,听和读的量必须数十倍地多于说和写的量,才能较自如地在口头上或书面上表达自己的思想。一方面,大量阅读可以提高阅读能力,扩大词汇量,另一方面,它还可以增强英语语感,对英语写作起着潜移默化的作用。只有当阅读量达到一定程度时,才能找到写好文章的语感。我们可以选择适合学生的读物,如英文报纸(《英语周报》、《21世纪报》)、杂志(《中学生英语园地》)、科普文章、书虫等(水平较高的学生可读小说原著)。大量阅读是学生接触英语语言材料、接受信息、活跃思维、增强记忆力的一种有效途径,同时也是培养学生英语思维能力、提高理解力、增强语感、巩固和扩大词汇量的一种有效方法,非常有利于写作。实践证明,学生平时课外阅读面越广,阅读量越大,运用英语表达的能力就越强。
二、多背
英语和汉语存在很大差异,语法规则和句子结构是不同的,很多学生在写作过程中难免会受到母语的影响,出现一些Chinglish(中式英语),而且有些语法规则也把握不准,谓语动词常出现“be+do”的错误形式或缺少谓语的现象。所以,背诵模仿是行之有效的手段之一。
(一)背课文
在多年的教学实践中,我坚持让学生背诵部分课文,较长的文章选背一两段,下节课抽查背诵,或进行默写。《新概念英语2》中很多英语短文通俗有趣,我给学生挑选其中一部分让他们背诵、默写,对培养学生的语感很有效。
(二)背范文
英语写作一般包括记叙文、说明文、议论文、应用文及开放性作文写作。我经过筛选,找出每种文体各五篇文章,同时,我也注重搜集一些好的范文和习作要求学生背诵。通过熟背精彩段落,使学生逐步掌握英语基本的表达方法,有助于模仿。而且,通过这些范文,学生可熟练掌握各种体裁的写作技巧,这是学生写好作文的一条捷径。经过一段时间的训练,学生就会有内容可写、写得出来。
三、多写
除了以上对学生进行读、背训练,还要对学生进行动手训练。学生只有通过写才能知道自己的不足与缺陷,毕竟说和写是两回事。
(一)改写课文
教师可要求学生把Reading缩写成一篇一百字左右的短文,也可让学生把对话改写成记叙文(如项链),这也是进一步理解课文的手段。一般在学完一个单元,学生熟练掌握课文之后,再做这一步,让学生尽量使用本单元的短语句型,同时,也要学着套用背诵的句子。
(二)写英语周记
让学生写英语周记,这是很多老师训练学生写作的方法。有些英语写作不好的学生,往往不坚持写或应付了事。对这样的学生,教师要严格要求,督促检查。对学生的每篇周记,教师都要认真批改。周记不必拘泥于形式,学生可以自由发挥。开始可以写简单的几句话,要求学生多用学过的词组、句型,多套用和模仿。逐渐地,学生会写多些,也会越写越流利,错误也会越来越少。
(三)每周练习写一篇作文
教师挑选一至两篇习作打在投影仪上,师生共同修改,然后让学生将改写过的文章抄写在作文积累本上。这样日积月累,学生考前只要翻翻自己的“作文本”,即可胸有成竹,这个习惯一定要养成,对学生会有很大帮助。
(四)限时写作训练
近年高考试题包容量大,知识覆盖面广,这就要求学生在做题时必须注意速度和节奏,而高考书面表达从时间分配上看,最多也只能是30分钟左右的时间,学生必须在有限时间内完成作文,并且要意思连贯,无严重语法错误。为达到这一要求,每届学生从高一开始,就应定期做限时写作训练。
四、多积累
(一)积累词汇
词汇是说话写作的必需材料,掌握词汇量的多少,是衡量一个学生英语水平高低的“标尺”。《教学大纲》规定的词汇是最基本的词汇,必须熟记。我在多年的教学中,每堂课都坚持让学生默写或听写单词,要求学生根据中文意思,写出单词的拼写形式、词类和词形变化。这就使学生积累了大量的词汇,为高考书面表达打下坚实的拼写基础,避免了因单词拼写错误而丢分。
(二)积累句型
我在平时授课过程中,让学生把重点句型记录在作文积累本上,随时翻看和背诵。如写观点类文章常用的Some share the view that...,Others hold the opposite opinion that...,The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages,As far as I’m concerned,以及常用到的定语从句、倒装句、非限、非谓、同位语、强调句型等。
(三)积累文章
学生背过的篇章、写过的作文,尤其是各种体裁的范文习作,要分类整理粘贴在作文积累本上,经常拿出来朗读背诵。我教过的学生,都积累了大量的范文习作,考试时可做到有备无患。
通过长期的写作训练,我狠抓学生基本功,学生的写作水平明显提高。我所教班级在每次考试中书面表达平均分都在同类班级之上。总之,英语写作训练是综合能力训练之一,写作能力的提高需要通过循序渐进的训练才能达到。听、说、读、写几方面的训练是相辅相成的,它们互相促进、互相制约,在平时教学中教师要合理安排,有机穿插,这样才能让学生“下笔如有神”。
篇9:初中英语写作常用谚语
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+ 加入清单Let‘s cross the bridge when we come to it.船到桥头自然直。下面是小编为你带来的初中英语写作常用谚语,欢迎阅读。
1. All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。
2. Well begun is half done.
好的开端是成功的一半。
3. East, west, home is best.
金窝、银窝,不如自己的草窝。
4. First think, then act.
三思而后行。
5. It is never too late to mend.
亡羊补牢,犹为未晚。
6. Time is money.
时间就是金钱。
7. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真交。
8. Great hopes make great man.
远大的希望,造就伟大的人物。
9. Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者,事竟成。
10. Stick to it, and you‘ll succeed.
只要人有恒,万事都能成。
11. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
早睡早起,富裕、聪明、身体好。
12. A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。
13. It is good to learn at another man‘s cost.
前车之鉴。
14. Let‘s cross the bridge when we come to it.
船到桥头自然直。
15. No pains, no gains.
不劳则无获。
16. Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事,只要肯登攀。
17. Where there is life, there is hope.
生命不息,希望常在。
18. An idle youth, a needy age.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。
19. A plant may produce new flowers; man is young but once.
花有重开日,人无再少年。
20. God helps those who help themselves.
自助者,天助之。
21. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只工作,不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻。
22. Diligence is the mother of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
23. Truth is the daughter of time.
时间见真理。
24. No man is wise at all times.
智者千虑,必有一失。
25. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
今天能做的事绝不要拖到明天。
26. Kill two birds with one stone.
一石双鸟。
27. Easier said than done.
说起来容易做起来难。
28. Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
天才一分来自灵感,九十九分来自勤奋。
29. He who laughs last laughs best.
谁笑在最后,谁笑得最好。
30. He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
身体健壮就有希望,有了希望就有了一切。
31. No man is born wise or learned.
人非生而知之。
32. Action speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
33. Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
34. There is no smoke without fire.
无风不起浪。
35. Many hands make light work.
人多好办事。
36. Reading makes a full man.
读书长见识。
37. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知识,胜于手中有金钱。
38. Seeing is believing.
百闻不如一见。
39. Money is a good servant but a bad master.
要做金钱的主人,莫作金钱的奴隶。
40. It‘s hard sailing when there is no wind.
无风难驶船。
41. The path to glory is always rugged.
通向光荣的道路常常是崎岖的。
42. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
没有目标的生活如同没有罗盘的航行。
43. Quality matters more than quantity.
质重于量。
44. The on-looker sees most of the game.
旁观者清。
45. Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
与众同乐,其乐更乐。
46. Happiness takes no account of time.
欢乐不觉日子长。
47. Time and tide waits for no man.
岁月不等人。
48. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
若要求知,必须刻苦。
49. Learn to walk before you run.
循序渐进。
50. From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之间,大有距离。
51. Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
技能和信心是无敌的军队。
52. Habit is a second nature.
习惯成自然。
53. Two heads are better than one.
三个臭皮匠顶个诸葛亮。
54. Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
世上无难事,只怕有心人。
55. You can‘t make something out of nothing.
巧妇难为无米之炊。
56. Nothing for nothing.
不费力气,一无所得。
57. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
不犯错误者一事无成。
58. Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求则无所获。
59. A little of every thing is nothing in the main.
每事浅尝辄止,事事都告无成。
60. A great ship asks deep waters.
大船要走深水。
篇10:中考作文写作技巧及方法介绍
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+ 加入清单要想写好中考作文,在我看来,无非有以下几点:
1.严谨的布局:
正所谓万事开头难,不过只要开了个好头,这篇作文就会很好写了。
凤头:是文章的首段,是阅卷老师首先入眼的地方,一定要做好整篇文章的中心把握,要做到下文与首段上下连贯,紧密结合,要通过开头使下文有可写之处,开头要达到让阅卷老师耳目一新的效果。例如,巧用排比,比喻,拟人等修辞手法,并且通过这些修辞手法,而统领全文主旨。
猪肚:在一篇上好的文章中,分段都会恰到好处,而当文章中只有一大段或两三段时,这篇文章即使文采再出众,也不会有太高的分数,因为阅卷老师在中考判卷时,每三分钟就要判出一份作文,工作量相当大,如果不善于分段,阅卷老师可能失去耐心,从而看不完,就会草草的给出分数。所以,在我看来,一篇文章至少要分6-8个段,但不是一行或几行一段,而是要看起来像豆腐块,一块块整齐的排列在一起,使文章紧中有松,松弛有度。要看上去整篇文章是一个整体,而不是零散的。
豹尾:在文章的最后处,应当让主题更突出鲜明,升华主题思想,使豹尾抽起来!或让人感到峰回路转,柳暗花明或更进一步的特殊效果。在文章末尾,应当再次点题,紧扣中心思想,让贯穿始终的中心思想继续延伸,引人深思。特别是要在结尾处,与开头形成呼应,对比,递进等等,来引发阅读老师的共鸣!
2.细腻的文笔:不管是记叙,议论还是散文;不管是写人写事还是写景。都要用细腻的文笔呈现出来,使文章中点更突出,让阅卷老师在看试卷的过程中,有深思,放慢阅读速度和重复阅读的情况出现,让阅卷老师身临其境,从而使文章更具灵性。
3.贯穿始终的思想感情:在一篇布局格式上很得当,错落有致的文章上,还必须要有一条贯穿始终的思想路线,这条线就像鱼的脊椎一样重要,这条线一定要清晰,明确,千万不可含混不清。
把握好这几点,一篇好的中考作文已经大致成型,不过要想在中考中脱颖而出,这仅仅是开始。
篇11:英语论文的格式与写作方法
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+ 加入清单语言和内容是评判一篇英语论文质量高低的重要依据;但是,写作格式规范与否亦是一个不可忽略的衡量标准。小编收集了英语论文的格式与写作方法,欢迎阅读。
一、英语论文的标题
一篇较长的英语论文(如英语毕业论文)一般都需要标题页,其书写格式如下:第一行标题与打印纸顶端的距离约为打印纸全长的三分之一,与下行(通常为by,居中)的距离则为5cm,第三、第四行分别为作者姓名及日期(均居中)。如果该篇英语论文是学生针对某门课程而写,则在作者姓名与日期之间还需分别打上教师学衔及其姓名(如:Dr./Prof.C.Prager)及本门课程的编号或名称(如:English 734或British Novel)。打印时,如无特殊要求,每一行均需double space,即隔行打印,行距约为0.6cm(论文其他部分行距同此)。
就学生而言,如果英语论文篇幅较短,亦可不做标题页(及提纲页),而将标题页的内容打在正文第一页的左上方。第一行为作者姓名,与打印纸顶端距离约为2.5cm,以下各行依次为教师学衔和姓、课程编号(或名称)及日期;各行左边上下对齐,并留出2.5cm左右的页边空白(下同)。接下来便是论文标题及正文(日期与标题之间及标题与正文第一行之间只需隔行打印,不必留出更多空白)。
二、英语论文提纲
英语论文提纲页包括论题句及提纲本身,其规范格式如下:先在第一行(与打印纸顶端的距离仍为2.5cm左右)的始端打上 Thesis 一词及冒号,空一格后再打论题句,回行时左边须与论题句的第一个字母上下对齐。主要纲目以大写罗马数字标出,次要纲目则依次用大写英文字母、阿拉伯数字和小写英文字母标出。各数字或字母后均为一句点,空出一格后再打该项内容的第一个字母;处于同一等级的纲目,其上下行左边必须对齐。需要注意的是,同等重要的纲目必须是两个以上,即:有Ⅰ应有Ⅱ,有A应有B,以此类推。如果英文论文提纲较长,需两页纸,则第二页须在右上角用小写罗马数字标出页码,即ii(第一页无需标页码)。
三、英语论文正文
有标题页和提纲页的英语论文,其正文第一页的规范格式为:论文标题居中,其位置距打印纸顶端约5cm,距正文第一行约1.5cm。段首字母须缩进五格,即从第六格打起。正文第一页不必标页码(但应计算其页数),自第二页起,必须在每页的右上角(即空出第一行,在其后部)打上论文作者的姓,空一格后再用阿拉伯数字标出页码;阿拉伯数字(或其最后一位)应为该行的最后一个空格。在打印正文时尚需注意标点符号的打印格式,即:句末号(句号、问号及感叹号)后应空两格,其他标点符号后则空一格。
四、英语论文的文中引述
正确引用作品原文或专家、学者的论述是写好英语论文的重要环节;既要注意引述与论文的有机统一,即其逻辑性,又要注意引述格式 (即英语论文参考文献)的规范性。引述别人的观点,可以直接引用,也可以间接引用。无论采用何种方式,论文作者必须注明所引文字的作者和出处。目前美国学术界通行的做法是在引文后以圆括弧形式注明引文作者及出处。现针对文中引述的不同情况,将部分规范格式分述如下。
1.若引文不足三行,则可将引文有机地融合在论文中。如:
The divorce of Arnolds personal desire from his inheritance results in “the familiar picture of Victorian man alone in an alien universe”(Roper9).
这里,圆括弧中的Roper为引文作者的姓(不必注出全名);阿拉伯数字为引文出处的页码(不要写成p.9);作者姓与页码之间需空一格,但不需任何标点符号;句号应置于第二个圆括弧后。
2.被引述的文字如果超过三行,则应将引文与论文文字分开,如下例所示:
Whitman has proved himself an eminent democratic representative and precursor, and his “Democratic Vistas”
is an admirable and characteristic
diatribe. And if one is sorry that in it
Whitman is unable to conceive the
extreme crises of society, one is certain
that no society would be tolerable whoses
citizens could not find refreshment in its
buoyant democratic idealism.(Chase 165)
这里的格式有两点要加以注意。一是引文各行距英语论文的左边第一个字母十个空格,即应从第十一格打起;二是引文不需加引号,末尾的句号应标在最后一个词后。
3.如需在引文中插注,对某些词语加以解释,则要使用方括号(不可用圆括弧)。如:
Dr.Beaman points out that“he [Charles Darw in] has been an important factor in the debate between evolutionary theory and biblical creationism”(9).
值得注意的是,本例中引文作者的姓已出现在引导句中,故圆括弧中只需注明引文出处的页码即可。
4.如果拟引用的文字中有与论文无关的词语需要删除,则需用省略号。如果省略号出现在引文中则用三个点,如出现在引文末,则用四个点,最后一点表示句号,置于第二个圆括弧后(一般说来,应避免在引文开头使用省略号);点与字母之间,或点与点之间都需空一格。如:
Mary Shelley hated tyranny and“looked upon the poor as pathetic victims of the social system and upon the rich and highborn...with undisguised scorn and contempt...(Nitchie 43).
5.若引文出自一部多卷书,除注明作者姓和页码外,还需注明卷号。如:
Professor Chen Jias A History of English Literature aimed to give Chinese readers“a historical survey of English literature from its earliest beginnings down to the 20thcentury”(Chen,1:i).
圆括弧里的1为卷号,小写罗马数字i为页码,说明引文出自第1卷序言(引言、序言、导言等多使用小写的罗马数字标明页码)。此外,书名 A History of English Literature 下划了线;规范的格式是:书名,包括以成书形式出版的作品名(如《失乐园》)均需划线,或用斜体字;其他作品,如诗歌、散文、短篇小说等的标题则以双引号标出,如“To Autumn”及前面出现的“Democratic Vistas”等。
6.如果英语论文中引用了同一作者的两篇或两篇以上的作品,除注明引文作者及页码外,还要注明作品名。如:
Bacon condemned Platoas“an obstacle to science”(Farrington, Philosophy 35).
Farrington points out that Aristotles father Nicomachus, a physician, probably trained his son in medicine(Aristotle 15).
这两个例子分别引用了Farrington的两部著作,故在各自的圆括弧中分别注出所引用的书名,以免混淆。两部作品名均为缩写形式(如书名太长,在圆括弧中加以注明时均需使用缩写形式),其全名分别为 Founder of Scientific Philosophy 及 The Philosophy of Francis Baconand Aristotle。
7.评析诗歌常需引用原诗句,其引用格式如下例所示。
When Beowulf dives upwards through the water and reaches the surface,“The surging waves, great tracts of water, / were all cleansed...”(1.1620-21).
这里,被引用的诗句以斜线号隔开,斜线号与前后字母及标点符号间均需空一格;圆括弧中小写的1是line的缩写;21不必写成1621。如果引用的诗句超过三行,仍需将引用的诗句与论文文字分开(参见第四项第2点内容)。
五、英语论文的文献目录
论文作者在正文之后必须提供论文中全部引文的详细出版情况,即文献目录页。美国高校一般称此页为 Works Cited, 其格式须注意下列几点:
1.目录页应与正文分开,另页打印,置于正文之后。
2.目录页应视为英语论文的一页,按论文页码的顺序在其右上角标明论文作者的姓和页码;如果条目较多,不止一页,则第一页不必标出作者姓和页码(但必须计算页数),其余各页仍按顺序标明作者姓和页码。标题Works Cited与打印纸顶端的距离约为2.5cm,与第一条目中第一行的距离仍为0.6cm;各条目之间及各行之间的距离亦为0.6cm,不必留出更多空白。
3.各条目内容顺序分别为作者姓、名、作品名、出版社名称、出版地、出版年份及起止页码等;各条目应严格按各作者姓的首字母顺序排列,但不要给各条目编码,也不必将书条与杂志、期刊等条目分列。
4.各条目第一行需顶格打印,回行时均需缩进五格,以将该条目与其他条目区分开来。
现将部分较为特殊的条目分列如下,并略加说明,供读者参考。
Two or More Books by the Same Author
Brooks, Cleanth. Fundamentals of Good Writing: A
Handbook of Modern Rhetoric. NewYork: Harcourt, 1950.
---The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats,
Eliot, and Warren. New Haven: Yale UP,1963.
引用同一作者的多部著作,只需在第一条目中注明该作者姓名,余下各条目则以三条连字符及一句点代替该作者姓名;各条目须按书名的第一个词(冠词除外)的字母顺序排列。
An Author with an Editor
Shake speare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth. Ed. Louis B.
Wright. New York: Washington Square, 1959.
本条目将作者 Shakespeare 的姓名排在前面,而将编者姓名(不颠倒)放在后面,表明引文出自 The Tragedy of Macbeth;如果引文出自编者写的序言、导言等,则需将编者姓名置前,如:
Blackmur, Richard P.Introduction. The Art of the Novel:
Critical Prefaces. By Henry James. New York: Scribners,
1962.vii-xxxix.
如果引言与著作为同一人所写,则其格式如下例所示(By后只需注明作者姓即可):
Emery, Donald. Preface. English Fundamentals. By Emery.
London: Macmillan, 1972.v-vi.
A Multivolume Work
Browne, Thomas. The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed.
Geoffrey Keynes. 4 vols. London: Faber, 1928.
Browne, Thomas. The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed.
Geoffrey Keynes. Vol.2. London: Faber, 1928. 4 vols.
第一条目表明该著作共4卷,而论文作者使用了各卷内容;第二条目则表明论文作者只使用了第2卷中的内容。
A Selection from an Anthology
Abram, M. H.“English Romanticism: The Spirit of the Age.”
Romanticism Reconsidered. Ed. Northrop Frye. New
York: Columbia UP,1963.63-88.
被引用的英语论文名须用引号标出,并注意将英语论文名后的句点置于引号内。条目末尾必须注明该文在选集中的起止页码。
Articles in Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
Otto, Mary L.“Child Abuse: Group Treatment for Parents.”
Personnel and Guidance Journal 62(1984): 336-48.
报刊杂志名需划线,但其后不需任何标点符号。62为卷号或期号,如既有卷号,又有期号,则要将二者以句号分开。如:(3.3);1984为出版年份,应置于圆括弧中。
Arnold, Marilgn.“Willa Cathers Nostalgia: A Study in
Ambivalance.”Research Studies Mar.1981:23-24,28.
月刊或双月刊须同时注明出版年月;23-24,28表示该文的前一部分刊于第23和24两页,后一部分则转至第28页。
Gorney, Cynthia.“When the Gorilla Speaks.”Washington Post
31 July,1985:B1.
引用日报上的英语论文必须同时注明报纸出版的年、月、日。B1为该文在报纸中的版面及页码。参考文献(略)
篇12:考试作文的写作技巧
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+ 加入清单1、观点不可太绝对,要留有余地。“义正”未必要“辞严”,“理直”未必就要“气壮”。联系现实生活时,涉及社会黑暗面时,要有分寸,不要一味指责。“质问京山大冤案”。批评家长、老师和社会要与人为善,抱着协商与治病救人的态度,要提建设性意见。不可尖刻、讽刺、挖苦,甚至恶意地进行人身攻击。
2、临场写作时可以根据题意和你的表达需要想像一个或一类读者就在你的面前。如以“沟通”为话题作文,写与家长的沟通,可想像父母就在身边;写“沟通”之艰难和必要,就好像误解过你的人正在听你倾诉;写国际间通过沟通走向合作,就设想自己参与了国与国的谈判。即使所写文章没有明确的阅读对象,你也可以想像此文是写给你的语文老师的。你要知道,你的文章的惟一读者是那位跟你的语文老师非常相似的人。写记叙文,且最好将主人公设定为自己。想想阅卷老师的喜好,说他们想听的话。尽可能赢得评卷老师的同情。
3、写法上可以求新。要考虑,怎样表现更智慧,更艺术,更有可读性;但更要求稳。我的意见是大家一定要在一种比较稳的情况下,确有把握时才可写小小说或者是写戏剧,或者是写别的,确有把握之后才写这种文体,如果没有把握的话,就选择比较稳妥的老的文体,老的写法。
4、不可按上年或前几年的高考作文思路行文。求新、求变是人们所追求的,高考作文也不例外。但若按上年或前几年的高考作文思路行文,甚至拿来套用,机械模仿,不懂灵活应变,就会吃力不讨好,这也是失分的点。因为阅卷者大都是相对固定的,对以前的高考作文非常熟悉。不主张写诗歌、文言文。
5、苦于材料缺乏则可以突出自己的爱好。你如果喜欢体育,那你就像体育记者一样,叙体育、议体育,只要切合题意就好。你如果喜欢听××的歌、看××的书、爱好上网……你就可以将自己这一方面的经历和感受与命题联系起来。那样就不愁内容贫乏、文思枯竭。不要瞎编乱造。靠编故事骗取老师的眼泪从而获得高分的时代已经一去不复返了。
6、要美化自己,而不是丑化自己。要显现自己的高境界、大抱负、多知识、同情心,要显现自己以天下为己任的豪情。不要出于反衬别人等考虑而故意丑化自己,如果让评卷老师以为你真就是那样,那就麻烦了,因为高考是选拔性考试。从某个角度讲,评卷老师评卷的过程就是一个选择淘汰对象的过程。
7、字数以900字左右为宜。不能给人凑字数的感觉,但也不能拖得太长,不允许加纸条。许欢写长文的同学,开篇要注意不要放得太开,开口不要太大,能跳过去的就跳过去,要相信读者的理解能力。要注意节省篇幅,要防止高潮来了没地方写了。切忌三段文。要突出的句子(扣题的、表现主旨的、文眼、点睛之笔、抒情议论、议论文的分论点等)最好单独成段。
8、看到题目后,可先搜索一下自己以往所写的优秀作文,看有没有可以再利用的。需要注意的是一定要不牵强。
9、行文中要多次扣题,要一路扣题一路歌。材料、引语和话题中的相关文字至少在文中出现三次以上。开头三句话内应点题一次,结尾应回扣标题,“回眸一笑百媚生”。中间至少扣题一次。几次扣题事实上也是在不断地提醒自己不要跑题。有球场上叫暂停的效果,可以调整思路和写法。
10、思想要健康。“思想健康”不是说要你只说冠冕堂皇的话,不是要你刻意拔高,“健康”是针对“病态”、“庸俗”而言的,它的底线是不能欣赏违背法律法规和偏离社会道德的事。恋爱题材是考场作文的禁区,无论考生写得如何缠绵悱恻,真挚动人,因其行为是中学生日常行为规范所不允许的,这类作文自然得不了高分。
11、充分发挥自己的优势。认识水平高、擅长理性思维的同学可选择议论文,擅长形象思维、会刻画人物的同学可选择微型小说,擅长抒情的同学可选择散文。
12、精写前几段,给评卷老师留下一个好印象。要精雕细刻,要出彩。比如,可开门见山,直奔主题;可制造悬念,引人入胜;可提出问题,引人注意;或巧用排比、比喻、拟人等修辞手法,或巧述故事,引人入胜,或巧用题记,揭示主旨,或巧用诗文显诗意。写好结尾和过渡段。阅卷老师一般是S型的扫描全文。结尾可画龙点睛,发人深思;或总结全文,照应开头;或虚笔拓展,扩大容量;或精辟议论,深化主旨。
13、要给自己充足的构思时间,不要急于动笔。“宁停三分,不争一秒”,因为写作是“开弓没有回头箭”的,写到一半,突然发现,呀,把题目理解错了,或没领会好命题的要求。最可怕的是文章写到一半,又想另起炉灶。时间没了,心情也坏了,干着急。建议打草稿,防止“三边工程”(边立项,边设计,边施工)。考场作文不宜见异思迁,边写边改。要贯彻一种构思。一旦构思已定,就不要轻易改变。
14、要力避前松后紧、虎头蛇尾。有些同学构思、提纲拟好后,开头反复推敲,精雕细琢,后来发现时间不够,于是草草收兵。此外,要谨慎对待修改。今年实行网上评卷,更应慎重。修改一般只着眼于字词方面的,可用米尺比好之后划两横。结构方面不能修改。要保持卷面的整洁美观,要努力做到改动少而效果好。
15、如果偏题或者离题,作文的主要分数就失去了。为防止跑题,可从如下几点做出努力:一是将材料、引语和话题联系起来思考,不可单看话题;二是看自己确立的观点能否用话题所给材料来证明;三是想一想这则材料当初发在媒体上登载是要达到一个什么效果的。万一跑题了,要考虑逆挽,使文章形成一种欲扬先抑的结构形态。
16、一定要完篇。熟话说,好文章是风头、猪肚、豹尾。没有豹尾,老鼠尾巴也要有一个,绝不能写半头文。用半篇文章给你评分,怎么会得高分?
17、要重视拟题,特别要注意不能缺题。不是万不得已,不要以话题做标题。张伟民讲那是一种浪费。拟题是显示你才气的一个好的平台,不能轻易放弃。缺题影响远不止2分。正好给了评卷老师扣分的理由。
18、文章要有一至两个亮点。如果是记叙文,应该用抓人的情节和生动的描写表现你的真情,记叙文不能没有描写。如果是议论文,就一定要有1--2个典型的论据,就应该有纵横捭阖,很深刻的见解。如果是微型小说一定要有巧妙的构思。这个亮点还可以是一句富有哲理的警句,也可以是一个精彩的比喻,也可以是一个超常的搭配(酽酽的歌喉)。总之,要能使评卷老师精神为之一震。
篇13:英语读后感写作技巧
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所谓“感”
可以是从书中领悟出来的道理或精湛的思想,可以是受书中的内容启发而引起的思考与联想,可以是因读书而激发的决心和理想,也可以是因读书而引起的对社会上某些丑恶现象的抨击、讽刺。读后感的表达方式灵活多样,基本属于议论范畴,但写法不同于一般议论文,因为它必须是在读后的基础上发感想。要写好有体验、有见解、有感情、有新意的读后感,必须注意以下几点:
首先,要读好原文
“读后感[1]”的“感”是因“读”而引起的。“读”是“感”的基础。走马观花地读,可能连原作讲的什么都没有了解,哪能有“感”?读得肤浅,当然也感得不深。只有读得认真,才能有所感,并感得深刻。如果要读的是议论文,要弄清它的论点(见解和主张),或者批判了什么错误观点,想一想你受到哪些启发,还要弄清论据和结论是什么。如果是记叙文,就要弄清它的主要情节,有几个人物,他们之间是什么关系,以及故事发生在哪年哪月。作品涉及的社会背景,还要弄清楚作品通过记人叙事,揭示了人物什么样的精神品质,反映了什么样的社会现象,表达了作者什么思想感情,作品的哪些章节使人受感动,为什么这样感动等等。
其次,排好感点
只要认真读好原作,一篇文章可以写成读后感的方面很多。如对原文中心感受得深可以写成读后感,对原作其他内容感受得深也可以写成读后感,对个别句子有感受也可以写成读后感。总之,只要是原作品的内容,只要你对它有感受,都可能写成读后感,你需要把你所知道的都表示出来,这样才能写好读后感。
第三、选准感点
一篇文章,可以排出许多感点,但在一篇读后感里只能论述一个中心,切不可面面俱到,所以紧接着便是对这些众多的感点进行筛选比较,找出自己感受最深、角度最新,现实针对性最强、自己写来又觉得顺畅的一个感点,作为读后感的中心,然后加以论证成文。
第四、叙述要简
既然读后感是由读产生感,那么在文章里就要叙述引起“感”的那些事实,有时还要叙述自己联想到的一些事例。一句话,读后感中少不了“叙”。但是它不同于记叙文中“叙”的要求。记叙文中的“叙”讲究具体、形象、生动,而读后感中的“叙”却讲究简单扼要,它不要求“感人”,只要求能引出事理。初学写读后感引述原文,一般毛病是叙述不简要,实际上变成复述了。这主要是因为作者还不能把握所要引述部分的精神、要点,所以才简明不了。简明,不是文字越少越好,简还要明。
第五,联想要注意形式
联想的形式有相同联想(联想的事物之间具有相同性)、相反联想(联想的事物之间具有相反性)、相关联想(联想的事物之间具有相关性)、相承联想(联想的事物之间具有相承性)、相似联想(联想的事物之间具有相似性)等多种。写读后感尤其要注意相同联想与相似联想这两种联想形式的运用。
编辑本段如何写读后感
格式
一、格式和写法
读后感通常有三种写法:一种是缩写内容提纲,一种是写阅读后的体会感想,一种是摘录好的句子和段落。题目可以用《读后感》;还可以用自己的感受(一两个词语)做题目,下一行是——《读有感》,第一行是主标题,第二行是副标题。
二、要选择自己感受最深的东西去写,这是写好读后感的关键。
三、要密切联系实际,这是读后感的重要内容。
四、要处理好“读”与“感”的关系,做到议论,叙述,抒情三结合。
五、叙原文不要过多,要体现出一个“简”字。
六、要审清题目。
在写作时,要分辨什么是主要的,什么是次要的,力求做到“读”能抓住重点,“感”能写出体会。
七、要选择材料。
读是写的基础,只有读得认真仔细,才能深入理解文章内容,从而抓住重点,把握文章的思想感情,才能有所感受,有所体会;只有认真读书才能找到读感之间的联系点来,这个点就是文章的中心思想,就是文中点明中心思想的句子。对一篇作品,写体会时不能面面俱到,应写自己读后在思想上、行动上的变化。
八、写读后感应以所读作品的内容简介开头,然后,再写体会。
原文内容往往用3~4句话概括为宜。结尾也大多再回到所读的作品上来。要把重点放在“感”字上,切记要联系自己的生活实际。
九、要符合情理、写出真情实感。
写读后感的注意事项
①写读后感绝不是对原文的抄录或简单地复述,不能脱离原文任意发挥,应以写“体会”为主。
②要写得有真情实感。应是发自内心深处的感受,绝非“检讨书”或“保证书”。
③要写出独特的新鲜感受,力求有新意的见解来吸引读者或感染读者。
④禁止写成流水账!
编辑本段要写关于学习的读后感应该读什么有感
(1)引——围绕感点 引述材料。简述原文有关内容。
(2)概——概括本文的主要内容 ,要简练,而且要把重点写出来。
(3)议——分析材料,提练感点。亮明基本观点。在引出“读”的内容后,要对“读”进行一番评析。既可就事论事对所“引”的内容作一番分析;也可以由现象到本质,由个别到一般的作一番挖掘;对寓意深的材料更要作一番分析,然后水到渠成地“亮”出自己的感点。要选择感受最深的一点,用一个简洁的句子明确表述出来。这样的句子可称为"观点句"。这个观点句表述的,就是这篇文章的中心论点。"观点句"在文中的位置是可以灵活的,可以在篇首,也可以在篇末或篇中。初学写作的同学,最好采用开门见山的方法,把观点写在篇首。
(4) 联——联系实际,纵横拓展。围绕基本观点摆事实讲道理。写读后感最忌的是就事论事和泛泛而谈。就事论事撒不开,感不能深入,文章就过于肤浅。泛泛而谈,往往使读后感缺乏针对性,不能给人以震撼。联,就是要紧密联系实际,既可以由此及彼地联系现实生活中相类似的现象,也可以由古及今联系现实生活中的相反的种种问题。既可以从大处着眼,也可以从小处入手。当然在联系实际分析论证时,还要注意时时回扣或呼应“引”部,使“联”与“引””藕”断而“丝”连这部分就是议论文的本论部分,是对基本观点(即中心论点)的阐述,通过摆事实讲道理证明观点的正确性,使论点更加突出,更有说服力。这个过程应注意的是,所摆事实,所讲道理都必须紧紧围绕基本观点,为基本观点服务。
篇14:我发现了写作的技巧_散文
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+ 加入清单以前,我一看见作文就头疼,就怕写作文。现在,我一看见作文简直就是爱不释手,并且出口成章。为什麽呢?让我告诉你!
在我四年级的时候,很怕写作文。一天,老师又让我们写一篇作文,还要求说必须题目新,选材新,开头新,结尾新……总之,这次作文只要做到“新”字,就算过关。本来就写不好作文的我听到了这些条件,皱起了眉头。
我漫不经心的拿起一本书看看,嘿,“奇迹”发生了!
我看的书名叫《教你如何写作文》,我正愁没发写,就认真的看了起来。从中,我知道了:
如果你是写人的,你就要着重表现人物的思想品质和性格特点,以鲜明的形象感染读者,表现你对人物的某种褒贬、爱憎。
如果你是记事的,你就要以叙述事情为主,表现事情的某种意义,反映你对事物的某种态度和看法。
如果你是写游记的,你可以描绘山水风光等自然景物为主的记叙文。游记的取材范围较广:山川风物、习俗人情、异域胜景,色彩纷呈,处处可游,景景可记。
如果你写演讲稿,你就要遵循以下几个原则:
一:主题明确,感情真挚。
二:内容充实,材料具体。
三:条理清楚,思路清晰。
四:语言简洁,形象生动。
如果你是写……
朋友,假如你写作时还犯愁,就快看看以上的内容吧!
我可是有不小的收获呦!!!
篇15:2024关于网络评论的写作技巧大全
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+ 加入清单网络评论是就某个新闻事实或新闻事件借助网络媒体所发表的评论。主要区别于电视、报刊、广播等传统媒体上刊载的评论。网络评论与传统媒体的载体不同,严格意义上,网络转载的其他媒体的评论,不属于网络评论,网络评论是借助网络媒体所发表的原创评论。
二、网络评论的特点
据有关数据显示,中国网民数量已达5.64亿,其中,10—19岁网民是最大的用户群体,拥有高中学历者占到39.4% ,主要构成群体是青年学生和城市白领。由于网络载体的原因,网络评论与报纸、电视等评论存在不少差异,其特点是:反应迅速、文章短小、观点鲜明、论证新颖、语言鲜活。
1、反应迅速。新闻事件发生后,纸媒、电视等媒体要发布评论,有时要受制于出版和播出时间的限制,而网评不受这个限制。比如人民网人民网评在发布莫言获得诺奖的评论就发表在2012年11月11日当天,而人民日报《让文学回归我们的内心》则在第二天了,人民日报海外版《从莫言获奖说起》、《莫言获奖空前不绝后》则在2012年11月13日。
2、文章短小。纸媒评论一般字数在1000——1200字左右,人民日报的“人民论坛”字数在1200字左右;而网络评论字数一般在1000字以内,人民网的“人民网评”现在一般在1000字左右;新华网的“新华网评”则在800字左右的较多。
3、 观点鲜明。网评的观点受制于网络媒体的特点和网络受众的特点,它的观点通常都是开门见山,直抒胸臆。不像纸媒评论以及杂文那样,需要铺垫、绕弯,而是直接提出自己的观点,紧接着就论述。但是网络评论的标题制作一般较长,基本上是把新闻事件和观点同时表达出来。
4、论证新颖。网络是一个新媒体,网络评论的作者新人也较多,许多人没有传统媒体的条条框框,与我们生活着的现实世界联系紧密,从论证技巧到语言文字都有着新鲜的痕迹。王石川的《致考生,努力了你就无悔青春》这篇评论,就借用了年轻人喜欢的歌曲《致青春》,拉近了评论与年轻读者的距离。“青春是一场渐行渐远的诗歌,无论悲欢,都是记忆;无论好坏,都不是终点。走过这段路,轻装上阵,迎接下一个渡口。”他的这种观点在《致青春》的歌曲氛围中,是很容易被考生们接受的。
5、语言鲜活。网络评论在很多时候都使用了网络语言。除了文中使用以外,有许多网评标题也都是由鲜活的语言组织起来的:《“电荒”源于利润“掐架”》、 《新车改:没有执行力,“神马”仍将都是“浮云》 、《 “菜鸟”能给马云下多大的蛋》.......
网络语言是伴随着网络的发展而新兴的一种有别于传统平面媒介的语言形式。它以简洁生动的形式,一诞生就得到了广大网友的偏爱,发展神速。比如“杯具”、“神马都是浮云”、“ 斑竹 ”等等。鲜活的网络语言甚至影响了正规的纸媒。2010年11月10日《人民日报》头版头条刊登《江苏给力“文化强省”》一文,就用了网络词汇“给力”,中国组织人事报评论:《正确对待群众的“拍砖”》就用了网络语言“拍砖”。
所以,网络评论写作,要使用网络语言,这样,写出的评论才是网络评论而不是别的什么评论。
三、网络评论写作技巧:
(一)重视选题。
1、选题的意义:新闻稿或者信息,最“金贵”的还在于选题、立意,题是文章的点睛之笔。
特别是在“读题时代”、“速读时代”,找选题=找新闻;筛选题=选出特别值得做的新闻,放弃暂不值得做的新闻。一篇稿件的生命价值在很大程度上取决于立意选题。
凡是成功的新闻稿件都离不开选题好这一点。第21届中国新闻奖网络评论一等奖《依法理性表达爱国热情》、第22届中国新闻奖网络评论一等奖《“老何说和”说了些什么?》选题首先都不错。
2、如何选题:这个还是要依照新闻的价值来选择,即新闻的新鲜性、重要性、显著性、接近性、趣味性这样五个方面。
通常,新闻新闻,新鲜性这个要素是必须具备的,五个方面都能顾及到更好,一般只能兼顾两三点。
例:《北京警方夜查天上人间等4家豪华夜总会》这篇新闻稿,这五个方面都有所涉及。比如首次查办高档夜总会是新鲜性;天上人间的政治胭脂到底有多厚是重要性;首都多年以来首次查办高档夜总会是显著性,腐败是社会普遍关注的问题,这是接近性,高档妓女则是趣味性。
3、网络评论选题的特性:
比新闻还要注重选择。
因为评论是新闻的衍生物,是对新闻的进一步拓展,所评论的新闻本身是否具有价值对评论可以说具有生杀予夺的影响。由头的新闻价值高,受众的关注度高,读者相对来说也会较多。反之,由头是个没有拓展意义的新闻,是个不值得评论的新闻,那么,“皮之不存,毛将焉附”?勉强为之的评论一般也不会受到读者过多的关注。
选题确定了,评论就有了明确的目标;选题定不下来,评论犹如老虎吃天或者无头苍蝇;选题如果选错了,评论就可能失败。
选题还涉及到写什么和从哪个角度采写的问题。因为新闻事件是纷繁的,所以必须选择;还因为新闻事件是复杂的,所以必须选择角度。也就是说,选什么是个大主题,确定之后,还要确定从哪个角度切入。
(二)制作一个“点睛”的标题
著名散文家秦牧说过:“好的题目,总是概括力很大,饶有深意,引人深思,能激发人们的阅读兴趣。” 写文章,一个好的文章标题能起到画龙点睛的作用,那么对于网络评论的标题来说,一个精彩的标题更是能提高这篇评论的点击率。
例: 《丈母娘眼光直瞄教育短板》
这个标题,是我们根据文章题意和作者原来的标题最终制作成的。原题是《丈母娘,你辛苦了!》文章主要说一个女老师曾有一个得意门生,若干年后别人给她女儿介绍的对象,碰巧就是这位得意门生。但老师却坚决反对:“你看他的背,好像有些驼了;走起路来怕踩着了蚂蚁,就像个小老头;你看他的眼镜,镜片那么厚,至少也有七八百度;你再看他说话细声细气的,哪像个小伙子,更不说像个男子汉了;最让我看不上眼的是他那么古板,表情那么单一,一点幽默感都没有……”文章最后说:“丈母娘推高房价”、“史上最牛丈母娘有27项择婿标准”,而此次为教育“把脉开方”的竟然又是丈母娘!丈母娘真是太辛苦了。
修改过程为:《丈母娘,你辛苦了!》——《丈母娘眼光直指短板》——丈母娘眼光直瞄教育短板。这篇稿子央视专门介绍了,人民网、新华网等也都转载了,人民网还将其提到首页显著位置。
“看书看皮,看报看题”,这种现象一方面在说现在是读题时代和读图时代,另外一方面也真实地反映出了好标题的作用。
好的网络评论标题应具备的特点:直接、准确、简洁、新颖、生动。
1、直接。最好是观点的直接反应。
我们说过,网评的受众多是年轻人,时间少、很忙碌,网评标题制作最好一目了然,一看就知道是说在什么。比如《虐童不是家务事》,《莫忘“租友”的先天缺陷》、《名人八卦当休矣》。
2、准确。准确是指,标题要恰当地概括或者点出稿件的核心内容。标题中最好包含评论内容的关键词,做到题文相符。这样,读者看到关键词,如果有兴趣,就会逗留,甚至看下去。《音乐下载收费,切忌操之过急》、《世界水日,为水请命》、《反思“到此一游”背后的社会成因》,都比较恰当地反映出了评论的主要内容。
有一篇网评的题目为《韩国看不上爱国者》,从字意看,似乎是”韩国看不上热爱祖国的韩国人”,而实际上,文章中的“爱国者”指的是美国的“爱国者—3”导弹系统。那么,这个题目就不准确,容易引起歧义。
还有一篇来稿:《手机控,微博控,加剧道德“失控”》,说的是西安发生的一件事:发生了车祸,诸多围观者却只顾拿手机拍照发微博,没人救援的事。文中的主要观点是:手机控,微博控,加剧道德“失控”,加速良知流失。事实上,执勤民警打了120,而且,手机控,微博控,与道德“失控”在逻辑上没有必然联系。因此,这个标题就不准确。
3、简洁。简洁是指文章的题目用语要精炼。能用3个字说清楚的,决不用5个字,能用5个字说清楚的,决不用8个字。
按照阅读习惯,一般纸媒评论标题在4——8个字较好。但是网络评论标题得字数稍多,主要是为了要把新闻信息和观点都包含进去,字数太少,或者标题太虚,会让读者感觉摸不着头脑。
例:《中国足球那点事儿》,绝不是说中国足球出了什么事了,而是在探讨中国足球应该怎么走出困境。因此完整的话应该是“中国足球如何改变年复一年的沉沦”。但是,作者在确定题目时,对题目进行了语言的艺术提炼,使题目精练了。
4、新颖。会有一些作者用同样的新闻由头写评论,编辑用稿胜出的,很多是标题新颖的。
例:前一阵关于“拆迁暴富”的新闻由头,手头有这样几个标题:《拆迁暴富是福还是祸?》 、《农民拆迁暴富返贫现象值得关注》、《如何看‘拆迁暴富’现象》、《如何打破‘拆迁暴富’魔咒》。就我个人的看法,最后一个标题较好。因为它新颖,新颖在“魔咒”这两个字。
另外,《航母Style:娱乐版的爱国表达》,新颖在航母范儿;《秦岭毁容,无异于“焚琴煮鹤”》,新颖在“焚琴煮鹤”很少用来作标题上;《传播“快时代”要有“慢思考”》,新颖在提出了“快时代”的时代特征。
5、生动。标题的生动,就是标题让人看后要有跳跃感。要让静态的变动态;让枯燥的变有趣;让抽象的变具象。那么,标题就会生动起来。例:《开咬茅奖的N个好处》,就是用了“咬”这个动词,使标题生动了起来。而《“烂娃桃”的“桃子生态学”》这个标题,则是令人感到有趣。
在第二次世界大战中,英国吃了不少败仗,邱吉尔上台当首相时,为了鼓舞斗志曾发表过一篇有名的演说,其中有这么一句:“我所能奉献给你们的只是鲜血、劳累、眼泪和汗水”。从那以后,许多英国人都引用这句话,但都只记住了“鲜血、眼泪和汗水”,而把“劳累”一词遗忘了。因为“劳累”是一个抽象的字眼,难以捉摸,而其它3个词都是具象的,能给人以深刻印象的形象的东西。
篇16:中考英语写作必备句子
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+ 加入清单中考即"初中毕业和高中阶段招生考试",是选拔考试,但又是建立在义务教育基础上的选拔;中考要考虑初中学生升入高中后继续学习的潜在能力,但高中教育还是基础教育的范畴。yuwenmi小编提供一些中考英语写作必备句子给大家,欢迎借鉴!
1.People equate success in life with the ability of operating computer .
人们把会使用计算机与人生成功相提并论。
2. In the last decades, advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past.
在过去的几十年,先进的医疗技术已经使得人们比过去活的时间更长成为可能。
3. In fact, we have to admit the fact that the quality of life is as important as life itself.
事实上,我们必须承认生命的质量和生命本身一样重要。
4. We should spare no effort to beautify our environment.
我们应该不遗余力地美化我们的环境。
5. People believe that computer skills will enhance their job opportunities or promotion opportunities.
人们相信拥有计算机技术可以获得更多工作或提升的机会。
6. The information Ive collected over last few years leads me to believe that this knowledge may be less useful than most people think.
从这几年我搜集的信息来看,这些知识并没有人们想象的那么有用。
7. Now, it is generally accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduation.
现在,人们普遍认为没有一所大学能够在毕业时候教给学生所有的知识。
8. This is a matter of life and death--a matter no country can afford to ignore.
这是一个关系到生死的问题,任何国家都不能忽视。
9. For my part, I agree with the latter opinion for the following reasons:
我同意后者,有如下理由:
10. Before giving my opinion, I think it is important to look at the arguments on both sides.
在给出我的观点之前,我想看看双方的观点是重要的。
11.There is no denying the fact that air pollution is an extremely serious problem :the city authorities should take strong measures to deal with it.
无可否认,空气污染是一个极其严重的问题:城市当局应该采取有力措施来解决它。
12.An investigation shows that female workers tend to have a favorable attitude toward retirement.
一项调查显示妇女欢迎退休。
13.A proper part-time job does not occupy students too much time .In fact ,it is unhealthy for them to spend all of time on their study .As an old saying goes :All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
一份适当的业余工作并不会占用学生太多的时间,事实上,把全部的时间都用到学习上并不健康,正如那句老话:只工作,不玩耍,聪明的孩子会变傻。
14.Any government which is blind to this point may pay a heavy price.
任何政府忽视这一点都将付出巨大的代价。
15.An increasing number of people are beginning to realize that education is not complete with graduation.
越来越多的人开始意识到教育不能随着毕业而结束。
16.When it comes to education ,the majority of people believe that education is a lifetime study.
说到教育,大部分人认为其是一个终生的学习。
17.The majority of students believe that part-time job will provide them with more opportunities to develop their interpersonal skills ,which may put them in a favorable position in the future job markets.
大部分学生相信业余工作会使他们有更多机会发展人际交往能力,而这对他们未来找工作是非常有好处的。
18.It is indisputable that there are millions of people who still have a miserable life and have to fact the dangers of starvation and exposure.
无可争辩,现在有成千上万的人仍过着挨饿受冬的痛苦生活。
19.Although this view is widely held ,this is little evidence that education can be obtained at any age and at any place.
尽管这一观点被广泛接受,很少有证据表明教育能够在任何地点任何年龄进行。
20.No one can deny the fact that a person’s education is the most important aspect of his life.
没有人能否人这一事实:教育是人生最重要的一方面。
21.According to a recent survey ,four-million people die each year from diseases linked to smoking.
依照最近的一项调查,每年有4,000,000人死于与吸烟相关的疾病。
22.The latest surveys show that Quite a few children have unpleasant associations with homework.
最近的调查显示相当多的孩子对家庭作业没什么好感。
23.No invention has received more praise and abuse than Internet.
没有一项发明象互联网同时受到如此多的赞扬和批评。
24.People seem to fail to take into account the fact that education does not end with graduation.
人们似乎忽视了教育不应该随着毕业而结束这一事实。
25.Many experts point out that physical exercise contributes directly to a person’s physical fitness.
许多专家指出体育锻炼直接有助于身体健康。
26.Nowadays ,many students always go into raptures at the mere mention of the coming life of high school or college they will begin. Unfortunately ,for most young people ,it is not pleasant experience on their first day on campus.
当前,一提到即将开始的学校生活,许多学生都会兴高采烈。然而,对多数年轻人来说,校园刚开始的日子并不是什么愉快的经历。
27.In view of the seriousness of this problem ,effective measures should be taken before things get worse.
考虑到问题的严重性,在事态进一步恶化之前,必须采取有效的措施。
28.Proper measures must be taken to limit the number of foreign tourists and the great efforts should be made to protect local environment and history from the harmful effects of international tourism.
应该采取适当的措施限制外国旅游者的数量,努力保护当地环境和历史不受国际旅游业的不利影响。
29.An increasing number of experts believe that migrants will exert positive effects on construction of city .However ,this opinion is now being questioned by more and more city residents ,who complain that the migrants have brought many serious problems like crime and prostitution.
越来越多的专家相信移民对城市的建设起到积极作用。然而,越来越多的城市居民却怀疑这种说法,他们抱怨民工给城市带来了许多严重的问题,象犯罪和卖淫。
30.Many city residents complain that it is so few buses in their city that they have to spend much more time waiting for a bus ,which is usually crowded with a large number of passengers.
许多市民抱怨城市的公交车太少,以至于他们要花很长时间等一辆公交车,而车上可能已满载乘客。
篇17:高考话题作文的写作技巧
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+ 加入清单一、话题作文的表述篇——记叙经历
记叙经历,除非命题中有特殊的规定,在一般情况下,既可以写自己的经历,也可以写别人的经历;既可也写自己的亲身体验,也可以写自己的所见所闻,甚至可以编述故事。如果没有特殊规定,选材时就不要自己束缚自己的手脚,把思路仅仅局限在“我”上,而一旦突破“我”的限制,选材的天地就广阔的多了。
首先,要学会描写。①学会观察对象。描写是把事物的状态描绘出来,再现给读者,所以描写之前必须细致观察对象。②学会选择细节。描写再现事物的状态,不是把一切感受到的东西都写出来,而是要有选择地描写,作者要有明确的目的,选择最具表现力的细节,以此再现事物特征。③学会安排结构。写作时要按照一定的步骤,合理地、有序地安排文字,一层层写来,最终形成一个整体形象。④学会修饰语言。讲究修饰的最好手段是多用修辞手法,如比喻、象征、拟人、夸张、对比等。
其次,避平铺直叙。①在材料组合上:可以用三处地点,或三个时段,或三个镜头,或三张照片,或三件物品,或三段经历……来组织全文,并配上小标题,如“童年”“少年”“青年”、“镜头一”“镜头二”“镜头三”等等,以避免平铺直叙;②在结构安排上,可用设置悬念或运用倒叙来增加曲折;③在人称使用上,可以第一人称为主、兼用第二人称;④在表达方式上,可用日记或书信去代替一般化的记叙。
再次,要合理虚构。在记叙经历过程中为了更好地反映生活本质,更好地表现主题,在经得起推敲的前提下,应该进行合理虚构。①移花接木法。在真人真事的基础上改造、拼接、更换,将几个人的特点融于一个人,或将几件事的情节剪辑组合为一件事,或将发生在不同时段性质相同甚至相反的事剪辑到一个相对集中的时间内,使人物与事件更具典型性。②添枝加叶法。真实的事件本身简单、平淡,或只是一个轮廓、梗概,可以此为基本框架,展开想象,补充细节,使人物形象血肉丰满,使事情具体、曲折、生动。
二、话题作文的创新篇——语言求美
作文语言首先要通顺。“语言通顺”就是要用规范的现代汉语,不能用文言或半文半白的语言行文;遣词造句时,句式选用要贴切,努力克服用词不当,修辞不妥,不合语法、逻辑等毛病;词与词之间、句与句之间要上下衔接,一脉贯通,不要尚未理清思路就急于动笔,信口开河,凑字凑句,信手写来;要注意语言表达的方式、目的和交际的场合、对象的差异,把语言表达得准确、清晰、连贯、得体。
在语言通顺的基础上要让高考(课程)作文的语言亮起来,语言鲜活有文采,是每个考生都十分渴求的。那么,语言鲜活从何而来?有的是顺手拈来,有的是冥思苦索,但是,最根本的在于自己的文化积淀和语言修养。不读书,不看报,不实践,不思考,不研究新事物,不学习新鲜语言,不锻炼思维的敏锐,腹内空空,思想僵化,那么只能人云亦云,毫无鲜活可言。平日坚持学习积累,不断充实自己的语言仓库,不断进行语言的操练,才能厚积薄发,才能在关键时刻得心应手,写出鲜活的语言来。为此,要在四个方面下功夫:①在词语上下功夫。高考作文要力求词汇丰富,特别要恰当选用最有表现力的定语、状语、补语等修饰语。②在句式上下功夫。要在文中善于变换多种句式,主要包括长短结合、整散结合、恰当使用变式句等。③在修辞上下功夫。充分运用各种修辞手法,是增加文采、提高文章品位的重要手段。④在引用上下功夫。在高考作文中要注意适当引用一些名言警句、口语俗语、优美的诗句、歌词、广告语等,就更加能够增加文采。当然,鲜活语言总是以不同形式显示出力量,这种力量主要来自情感(作者的情感或人物的情感)的力量。
三、话题作文的立意篇——化大为小
话题作文“立意自定、文体自选、题目自拟”的宽泛政策,使有的学生“天马行空”,有的学生有“无从下手”。前者在一个话题中信手走笔,穿梭于几个话题中,什么都写了,什么都不可能写好、写细;后者却只能望话题兴叹。因此,要写好话题作文,在理解话题的基础上还要树立“化大为小”的观念。
化大为小,就是作者通过对话题的整体思考,从宽泛的话题中演绎成一个小角度,从一人一事,一斑一点,一枝一叶,片言只语落笔,联想生发,洞隐烛幽,深入发掘,大题小做,以细小的局部显示宏大的整体,透过平凡的现象挖出不平凡的本质,在叙事写景中透视深刻的人生哲理。话题作文的写作范围非常宽泛,如果仅把话题当作一个僵死的概念,笼而统之去写文章,势必出现内容空泛、文意散漫。所以,要善于在一个宽泛的范围内,“择其一点,不及其余”,也就是只写“大范围”中的“某一方面”,给自己选择一个充分发挥、具体表现的好舞台,这样才能在800字左右的篇幅内写出立意鲜明集中、内容具体充实的好文章。如2000年全国高考作文,要把“答案是丰富多彩的”这样一个大范围“化大为小”,变为一个具体的小范围,如生活态度、辨明是非、意识转变、思维方式、教育改革、道德教养、人物评价、历史反思、职业选择、个性发展等等方面的都可以写。再如,请以“压力”为话题,自拟题目,写一篇不少于800字的作文。要善于“以问领写”:“什么可以构成压力?”“有没有压力?”“压力来自何方?”“压力带来什么?”“怎样对待压力?”等等,然后自己回答这些问题,从这些回答中选择一二来写文章,达到“化大为小”的目的。可以写压力来自过重负担,也可以写压力来自责任感;可以写压力从无到有,也可以写压力从有到无;可以写压力来自外界,也可以写压力来自自身;可以写在重压下喘不过气来,也可以写变压力为动力;可以写要善于自我减压,也可以写“把压力放在肩上,不要放在心上”等等。要选择其中一个来写,不要贪多,否则会造成东拉西扯,空谈漫议。这样“化大为小”,文章才会“出彩”。
总之,写话题作文不求“面面俱到”但求“一针见血”。笼统而缺乏具体内容,那就只会大而化之,不能给人留下深刻的印象。这种写法只能列入“基本符合题意”的一档,最高得42分;如果大话、套话太多,文句也不够通顺,则很可能只拿个及格分(即36分),甚至更低。
四、话题作文的思路篇——时空联想
世间万事万物都是在一定的时间内变化、发展着,在一定的空间存在、运动着。而反映客观现实的作文当然也离不开时间和空间范畴。要拓展话题作文的思路也可以从时间和空间这两个角度进行联想。
时间,即过去、现在和未来。可以在特定的时间背景中叙事,也可以将过去和现在进行比较。如2000年全国高考话题作文“答案是丰富多彩的”可以将计划经济的一元化时代与市场经济的多元化时代相比较,也可以将封建时代的一人独尊与现在的民主政治比较,等等。
空间,包括领域、地点、场合等,往往不同的空间背景会赋予话题不同的内容。如“答案是丰富多彩的”可以从领域方面进行拓展:在文学创作上,要提倡百花齐放;在科学探索上,要寻求多种可能性;在哲学界,百家争鸣;在艺术界,流行着各种风格;在教育界,要培养各种各样的人才,等等。
五、话题作文的创新篇——构思求巧
构思是一个比较复杂的过程,所以要善于动脑筋。同时构思并没有一个死的条条框框,它所涉及的种种问题,都是灵活多变,因而构思过程是一个充满创造性的思维过程,是一种创造性的劳动。不同体裁不同类型的文章各有常见的思路模式,在结构安排上往往有明显的轨迹可循,如记叙文的“总—分—总”式,议论文的“并列式”“对照式”“层进式”“总分式”,一般材料议论文和读(观)后感的“引—议—联—结”式等等。构思的意义在于能合理利用材料,充分表现中心思想,构思创新就必须打破常规思维模式,适当变通,制造波澜。
记叙类文章的构思创新。①角度求巧。如果大家都从正面切入,你不妨从反面或侧面切入;大家都着眼整体,你不妨着眼局部;大家都从大处落笔,你不妨来个以小见大,等等。由于立意的独到新颖,常常会产生意想不到的强烈的感染力和振聋发聩的作用,从而读者留下深刻的印象。②顺序求变。如果大家都按事情的发生、发展的顺序组材,你不妨采用倒叙或插叙;大家都先写主后写宾,以突出主的地位,你不妨先宾后主,这同样突出主的地位,等等。③方式求异。如果大家都用第三人称叙述,你不妨用第一人称甚至第二人称;大家以叙述性语言为主,你不妨以描述性语言为主,等等。④结构求活。记叙文结构要灵活多变,一波三折,曲径通幽。激起文章波澜的技法常见的有:一是抑扬法。是指对写作对象或欲扬先抑,或欲抑先扬,然后陡然一转,出乎读者意料,从而使文章产生峰回路转、跌宕起伏的效果。二是悬念法。构成文章悬念的技巧一般为“起悬——垫悬——释悬”。可以用三处地点,或三个时段,或三个镜头,或三张照片,或三件物品,或三段经历……来组织全文,并配上小标题,如“童年”“少年”“青年”、“镜头一”“镜头二”“镜头三”等等,以避免平铺直叙。此外,还可以运用“误会法”“巧合法”等,以引起矛盾,增加波澜,从而深化主题。
议论类文章要特别注意论证求新。比较容易做到的方法:(1)举例新。举例的来源:①身边的新鲜事。②“焦点访谈”、“东方时空”、“实话实说”和各地电视专栏节目中所谈的内容。③《报刊文摘》每期第3版上的小故事。(2)引文新。引文来源:①新颁布的有关法律、法规。②报刊上的最新数据、资料。
篇18:高考英语记叙文的写作基础
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+ 加入清单纵观历年的高考书面表达,其文体题材各异,有书信、口头通知、简介、日记、自我介绍、记叙文、描写文、说明文、看图作文等,不同的体裁需要考生应用适当的篇章结构,将题目所提供的信息清晰、明了、准确,逻辑合理地表达出来。
篇章结构在语言表达中起着非常重要的作用,同样的信息点会因为不同的表达顺序传达出不同的信息。层次分明,逻辑合理的篇章结构会让读者在很短的时间内获得并准确理解题目所规定的信息;而叙述顺序混乱,前言不搭后语的篇章则让人一头雾水,不知所云何物。当然,后者是失败的表达,即使作者在写作的过程中使用了再漂亮的词汇和句型,混乱的文章结构也不会让读者准确领悟作者的意图。
记叙文主要是记叙所发生的事情和经历。常见的形式有:故事、日记、新闻报道、游记等。
记叙文的写作要素:
1 要交待清楚五要素的内容,即where, when, what, who ,how,给读者一个内容完整、细节清晰的故事。
2. 事情的叙述可以按时间或空间的顺序叙述,让读者易于把握所叙述内容之间的内在关联,从而理解文章主题。
3. 时态通常使用与过去有关的时态,如一般过去时。
记叙文的篇章结构:
开头 the beginning——交待必要的背景。如:时间、地点、人物等。
中间 the middle——交待故事情节(事情的主体)。如:事件的发生、发展和前因后果。(可以使用表示时间或空间的连接词,使文章连贯。 如:at first…then…few minutes later…)
结尾 the ending——事情的结果或感想、愿望等。(所表达的感想或愿望应与所记叙的内容有关系,起到扣题或点题的作用,使文章结构紧凑)。
例如NEMT2000
假设你是李华,正在美国探亲。2000年2月8日清晨,你目击了一起交通事故。警察局让你写一份材料,报告当时的所见情况。请根据下列图画写出报告。
注意:1. 目击者应该准确报告事实
2. 词数100左右
3. 结尾已为你写好
篇19:写作技巧
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+ 加入清单技巧1:要动连着动
学会用动词,并且是连续使用动词。很多作文好的学生都擅长用动词。文章要一波三折才好看,学会一波三折地使用动词。某学生本来这样写让座:“我看旁边老奶奶年纪大了,把座位让给了老奶奶。”修改成:“我看老奶奶年纪大了,连忙起身,走到奶奶身边,轻声地对她说:“奶奶,那里有个位置,您坐。”,我扶着她的胳膊,慢慢移到座位边,……”一个动词变成了五六个动词,作文也灵动丰富起来。
技巧2:一秒钟的事写三百字
还是针对作文写不长的一种技巧训练:用三百字来描写1秒钟内发生的事。如关于破校运会跳高纪录瞬间的描写原本只有几十字:只见某某纵身一跳,一下子飞过横杆,新的校运会记录诞生了!怎么变成三百字?可以有条理地加上动作解剖:如何助跑、起跳、翻越、落地;加上联想:往届校运会有人挑战失败,平时如何一次次练习等等;还可以加上细节充实,起跳前如何与同学进行眼神交流,成功后同学如何向他祝贺……写作困难的学生须掌握的一些写作技巧
技巧3:一段话里出现6种标点
很多学生不会用标点,习作中常只有逗号句号逗号句号,甚至逗号都没有,把老师读到断气为止。针对这个现像,可以进行“一段话必须出现6种标点”的技巧训练。,。?!…… :“” 这些标点你的作文中都有吗?没有的话请尝试用起来。
技巧4:字数三四五
这个技巧说白了就是学习写短句。学生容易在作文里写长句,而长句写的不好就变成病句。事实上很多作家也是以写短句见长的,像沈从文、汪曾祺。要注意控制每句话的字数,建议把十几个字几十个字的长句改成只有三四五个字的短句,自己会发现这样的作文有语感会舒服很多。如某学生的原文:“高高的绿绿的草散发着诱人的清香。一根一根都看得那么清楚,很挺拔的样子。”经指导后改成:“草绿了,高了,散发着清香。一根一根,看得清清楚楚,很挺拔的样子。” 是不是很有节奏感?
技巧5:“好像”是把万能钥匙
写作文要学会用“好像”,这是一把万能钥匙,写风景、写神态、写外貌、写动物都能用上。学会在作文中恰当使用“好像”,文章写不长、写得不生动不形象的许多问题可迎刃而解。某写作困难户学生经指导后写的习作:“学校清洁区里的几棵杨树落光了枯黄的叶子,只剩下光秃秃的枝丫在冷风中瑟瑟发抖,好像在说:“这寒风可真刺骨呀”!看,院头的草坪,现在也换上了灰褐色的大衣,远远望去好像铺着一大块灰色的地毯。就连主席台旁边那身着绿装像军人一样的小松树,也在寒风中哆嗦着……”读起来是不是有滋有味了呢?
技巧6:删删删大胆删
这是一个关于谋篇布局的写作技巧。记流水账是学生写作的通病,写一场联欢会从第一个节目写到最后一个节目,写一次春游从起床写到回家。大胆删,把联欢会其他节目都删光,只写一个最精彩的;把春游其他内容都删光,只写最美的一个景点。这就是详略得当的写作技巧。
技巧7:写外貌不用“有”
作文如何写外貌?孩子的作文里总会看到类似这样的句子:“××可漂亮了,她有一头卷卷的黄头发,有一双乌黑的葡萄般的大眼睛,有一个高高的鼻子,还有一张樱桃小嘴。”如果你试着让他们去掉文中的“有”,把文字重新串联一遍,会发现作文顺了很多。上段文字修改如下:“××可漂亮啦。一头卷卷的黄头发自然地披在肩上。她的眼睛太吸引人了,乌黑乌黑葡萄一般。高高的鼻子,和樱桃小嘴配合起来,有点混血的味道,同学们可喜欢她啦。”是不是读起来舒服多了?同样,在描写动物外貌时也可以用到这个方法,如:毛黄白相间,耳朵尖尖地向上竖起……而不是写成:它有一身黄白相间的毛,有一对尖尖的耳朵……。
技巧8:写说不出现“说”
比较以下三句话。张三说:“……”;张三无可奈何地说:“……”;张三摊了摊手,一副无可奈何的样子:“……”,显然,不出现“说”的第三句更精彩。写语言可以不用出现“说”而是在语言前面加上动作和神态,学会了细节描写,不会仅干巴巴地写“某某说”。
技巧9:写想不出现“想”
遇到描写心里活动时,这样的句子已经被孩子们写滥:“我脑子里跳出两个小人,一个小人……另一个小人……”不用这个句子又该怎么写?最常用的就是“我心想”。如某学生写:“数学老师出了一道难题要带回家写的。我心想:天哪!这该怎么办呢?”去掉“我心想”三个字如何?“数学老师出了一道难题要带回家写的。天哪!这该怎么办呢?”是不是更简洁精练?
写作困难的学生须掌握的一些写作技巧
技巧10:就是不用成语
作文为什么写不长?都是成语惹的祸!不是说多用成语才显得有文采吗?其实不然,在“就是不用成语”写作技巧中,当作文中只会按照套路使用成语时,文章细节就没了,还不如老老实实把自己看到的感受到写出来。什么“天高云淡、风和日丽、桃红柳绿、炯炯有神、心旷神怡……这些被用滥的成语还是少出现为妙。如,写春天别用“风和日丽”,而是这样写:“风儿拂过林梢 ,原本平静的湖面漾起了圈圈涟漪,湖边的柳树轻摇着身姿,我也忍不住张开双臂,任风抚过我的每一寸肌肤,暖暖的,痒痒的。”想办法用具体的句子替换掉别人用滥的成语,解决作文写不长写不细的难题。
技巧11:遇到“很”和“非常”想一想
遇到“很”和“非常”想一想。无数学生习作出现频率最高的字眼包括“很、非常”。遇到要写这几个字时不要轻易下笔,停下来想一想,是不是非要出现这个字眼?比如写热,别出现“很热”两个字,学会用其他的描写来体现热:骄阳似火,没有一丝风,树叶低垂毫无生气…… 文章自然就能写长。
技巧12:环境里面有“真”“情”
怎样写好环境?现在学生的通病是,最喜欢写小花、小草、小鸟。难道世界上只有小草、小鸟、小花吗?为什么不能写身边更真实的东西呢?桌子、云、雾、哪怕是电线杆都可以写。在环境描写里加上人的感情描写。如:“早上天气还挺好的,放学回家时,却哗哗下起雨来。雨珠在下,泪珠在滴,老天也好像在为我哭泣。”不仅要让人活在环境里,还要让人活在真实的环境里。
篇20:英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分
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+ 加入清单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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