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英语记叙文的写作技巧和方法(20篇)

导语:用英语做一个完成的自我介绍是一个很酷炫的事情。以下是小编为大家分享的英语记叙文的写作技巧和方法,欢迎借鉴!

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记叙文六要素的写作方法

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导语:下面是小编为大家整理的关于记叙文要素写作方法,欢迎大家阅读!

1.记叙文一般都具备六要素,但有的记叙文,如果其中某些要素是读者熟知的,或者某些要素不交代不影响表达效果,是可以省略的。

2.记叙的人称有第一人称和第三人称。以“我”的口吻或角度来叙述的是第一人称,如《小桔灯》《孔乙己》等。采用第一称来写,便于直抒胸臆,读起来有一种亲切感和真实感。以第三人称的角度来叙述文章中的人物、事件、场景等,如《皇帝的新装》。其优点在于不受空间和时间的限制,能从更多的方面自由地叙述。

3.记叙文的线索形式有:1以时间转移为线索2以一人3以一事4以一物为线索。多数记叙文存在着两条或两条以上的线索。如《藤野先生》,文章除了以作者与藤野先生交往为叙事线索(明线)外,还有作者爱国主度思想感情这一暗线。

4.记叙的顺序要求掌握的是顺叙、倒叙、插叙三种。顺叙指记叙的时候按照事情发生、发展、和结局的顺序来写,前因后果、条理很清楚。如《一面》;倒叙,指记叙的时候把后发生的事情写在前面,把先发生的事情写在后面。先把结局说出来,吸引读者了解其起因和过程,如《背影》;插叙,指在记叙过程中,需要插入另一些有关的情节,再接着叙述后来的事情,如《驿路梨花》。

5.记叙文常用的层次划分方法有以下几种:

(1)按事件和发展过程来划分《皇帝的新装》

(2)按空间转换来划分,如《老山界》

(3)按内容变化来划分,如《从百草园到三味书屋》

(4)按人物、场景变化来划分,如《分马》

(5)按感情变化来划分,如《荔枝蜜》不太喜欢蜜蜂—想去看蜜蜂—赞美蜜蜂—想变成蜜蜂。

(6)按表达方式的变换来划分,如《一件珍贵的衬衫》,抒情—记叙—抒情、议论。

6.理解和分析记叙文中叙述、描写、议论、抒情等多种表达方式综合运用的特点和作用。理解和分析记叙文中常用的表现手法(象征、对照、衬托等)和修辞手法(比喻、拟人、排比等),理解记叙性语言准确、生动的特点。

7.记叙文虽然以叙述、描写为主要表达方式,但常常借助议论、抒情、说明来开拓意境,深化主题。很多是各种表达方工综合运用。

(1) 叙述:把人物的经历和事物的发展变化过程表达出来的一种表达方式。它是写作中最基本、最常见、也是最主要的表达方式。

(2 )描写:是对人物的外形、动作、事物的性质、形态和景物的状貌,变化所作的具体刻画和生动描摹。

(3 )说明:是用简明的语言、客观而准确地解说事物或阐述说事理的一种表达方式。

(4)抒情:是作者通过作品中心人物表达主观感受,倾吐心中情感的文字表露,可分为直接抒情、间接抒情两种。直接抒情即直抒胸臆。间接抒情是在叙述、描写、议论中流露出爱憎感情。

(5)议论:根据作品写出自己的见解或道理.

8.记叙文的语言的特点:准确,生动。

小结:

1.记叙文的要素

2.记叙文的人称

3.记叙文的线索:1以时间转移为线索2以一人3以一事4以一物为线索

4.记叙文的顺序:顺叙、倒叙、插叙三种

5.记叙文的划分

6.记叙文的表达方式:叙述、描写(语言,动作,外貌,心理,神态,环境等或正面,侧面)、议论、抒情、说明等

7.记叙文的语言的特点:准确,生动

8.记叙文的表现手法:白描、衬托、渲染、对比、伏笔、铺垫等。

总结:

1.关于记叙文和文学作品阅读题的解答主要从两主面着手:

一是概括文章的内容,抓住以下几个要点:

(1)把握记叙文的要素,以写事为主的应明确写什么事,写人为主的应明确写什么样的人。

(2)把握关键性语句,揣摩作者为什么要写这些人、事。

(3)分析层与层之间的关系,理清文章脉络,然后概括。

二是弄清记叙文和文学作品的结构特点及表现形式。掌握以下划分段落的方式:

(1) 以时空变化划分 (2) 以作者思想感情的变化来划分 (3) 按记叙内容的变化来划分 (4) 按描述角度的变化、事情发展的阶段来划分

2.文段在内容上:以中心、意思相联系(思想感情)来答

在结构上:

文段在开头:总起全文

文段在中间:承上启下

文段在结尾:总结全文或照应主题或首尾呼应。

补充:

童话一般情况下是记叙文,但是也可以用议论的方式来写作技巧。

记叙文的阅读,要明确有关的知识点,把握其文体特征。

一、记叙文的概念:记叙文是以记叙、描写为主要表达方式,以记人、叙事、写景、状物为主要内容的文章。中学阶段,为了教学的方便,常常把消息、通讯、人物传记、回忆录、寓言、童话、小说等,都划归到记叙文教学中。

二、记叙文的分类:从写作内容与方式看,可分为两类:简单的记叙文和复杂的记叙文。从写作对象的不同,可分为四类:

1.写人的记叙文;2.叙事的记叙文;3.写景的记叙文(即散文);4.状物的记叙文。

三、记叙的要素:记叙文有六要素——时间、地点、人物、事件的起因、经过、结果。

四、记叙的顺序:常用的有三种——顺叙、倒叙、插叙。

五、记叙的线索:一般有以下几种——人线、物线、情线、事线、时线、地线。

六、记叙的人称:一般采用第一人称或第三人称,个别时候使用第二人称。

七、记叙的中心与详略:整体感知,准确把握文章中心。分析材料与中心的关系,理解材料的详略安排。

八、记叙文所用的表达方式:常见的是五种——记叙、描写、说明、议论和抒情。比较复杂的记叙文,往往几种表达方式综合运用。

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篇1:小升初作文指导:叙事文写作方法

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导语:在会写记叙文之前我们首先要学会怎么去记叙好一件简单的事情,下面我们来看看叙事文的写作方法

一、要交代清楚事情发生的地点、时间;要把事情的经过、因果写明白。

一件事,总离不开时间、地点、人物、事件、原因、结果等六个方面的内容,因此,只有把这些方面写清楚了,才能使别人明白你写了一件什么事。

然而,交代这六个方面内容不应该呆板,要根据文章的需要灵活掌握。时间、地点也并不是非要直接点明不可的,有时候可以通过描述自然景物的特征及其变化,将它们间接表示出来。

如“鸡喔喔叫了起来”,就是指天将亮了;“西边的太阳就要落山了”,指的是傍晚,等等。

二、要把事情经过写具体,并做到重点突出。

在记叙文六个方面的内容中,起因、经过和结果,是构成事情最主要的环节。为了把事情写得清楚、明白,在记叙中一定要写好事情的起因、经过和结果,特别要把事情的经过写具体,给人留下完整而深刻的印象。

三、记叙的条理要清晰。一件事都有发生、发展和结果的过程,按照事情发展的顺序记叙,文章的条理就会清楚明白。

确定记叙的顺序以后,还要安排好段落层次。适当地分段,可以使文章眉目清楚。要做到记叙的条理分明,必须在动笔之前,仔细地想一想,文章应该先写什么,再写什么,然后写什么,把记叙的轮廓整理出来。

在写记叙文的时候,我们要有条理性,先要想好先写什么,后写什么,安排好记叙的顺序,不然就会头绪杂乱,条理不清。那么我们要怎么写才能让文章条理清楚呢

一、运用顺叙。

顺叙,是按照事物发生、发展的先后次序进行叙述。这样写,可以将事物的发展过程,有头有尾地叙述出来,来龙去脉,十分清楚。运用顺叙写成的文章,它的层次、段落和事物发生、发展的过程是基本一致的。

顺叙有以时间为顺序的,有以事物发展规律为顺序的,也有以空间变换为顺序的。在叙事性的文章中,大多是以时间为顺序和以事物发展规律为顺序的。

按时间顺序进行叙述时,必须严格地安排好顺序,写清楚叙述的时间。现实生活中任何事情都不会突然发生,它总有一个发生、发展的过程。因此,作者常常要根据事情发生、发展、高潮、结局这一事情发展的规律来进行叙述,文章的层次也是清楚、明了的。

当然,有的文章事情比较简单,因而不一定非要写出事情过程的四个层次(发生、发展、高潮、结局)。

二、运用倒叙。

倒叙,就是把事件的结局或某个最突出的片断提在前面叙述,然后再从事件的开头进行叙述。

需要指出的是,运用倒叙的写法,必须注意交代清楚倒叙的起讫点,顺叙和倒叙的转换处要有明显的界限、必要的文字过渡。这些地方处理不好,会使文章脉络不清,头绪不明,影响内容的表达。

三、运用插叙。

插叙是指在叙述中心事件的过程中,由于某种需要暂时中断叙述的线索而插入的关于另一件事情的叙述。

需要指出的是,在运用插叙时不能打乱原来的叙述线索,要注意与上下文的衔接。这样,文章的结构不仅富有变化,而且叙述事情的条理非常清楚。

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篇2:英语考研应用文写作复习方法

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对于考研英语应用文写作来说,考生平时复习时不仅要注意应用文写作特点、格式要求,还要有意识的掌握各类应用文的写作方法。考研辅导专家建议广大考生不要简单认为应用文的复习就是复习相应的格式,格式只是应用文写作的最起码要求,除了应用文特定的格式外,还要背诵一些经典的套话,在平时的写作训练中培养迅速构思成篇的能力,注意词句的多样性和准确性训练。下面,我们就针对应用文写作中的私人和公务信函、备忘录、摘要、报告几种形式介绍一下写作技巧。

一、私人和公务信函

信函是很重要的一种应用文。私人和公务信函是用以交涉事宜、传达信息、交流思想、联络感情、增进了解的重要工具,与同学们的生活、学习比较密切,也是以后工作中用的最多的一种沟通方式。所谓私人信函就是给家人、朋友或者同学等写信,谈事情的同时又交流感情,是四级考试(专业课历年考研试卷)中常见的一种信函,研究生英语考试(专业课历年考研试卷)中常考的是公共信函。所谓公务信函就是给亲朋好友之外的人写信,主要是为了办事,比方说给老板或是客户写信都属于公共信函。

信函一般都是由写信时间、信内地址、称呼、信的主要内容和信尾几个主要部分组成。收信人地址要写在左上角,寄信人地址要写在右上角,寄信人地址也可以不写,姓名写在地址上面,地址排列顺序依次为门牌号、街区名、城市和国名。在信的开头人名前一定要加Mr.,Mrs.,Dear等比较尊敬的称呼,信的结尾注意使用常用的客套话如:sincerelyyours,faithfullyyours或者yourssincerely,yoursfaithfully。英文书信写作要遵循五个原则,即正确、清晰、简洁、礼貌和体贴。

正确是指信中所谈的事情要准确、具体,不用含糊抽象的词如:本月、明天等。清晰要求的是主题要明确,层次要清楚,让读者看后了然于心。简洁是现代英语发展的一大趋势。书信写作要做到行文简洁流畅,避免迂回冗长的长句,使书信尽可能写得明白清晰。书信交往,同样需要以礼待人,因而在写信过程中,要避免伤害对方感情,措辞上多多使用would,could,may,please等词,要自然得体,彬彬有礼。体谅对方也是写书信时要注意的一个原则,不能以自己为中心,要尊重对方的习俗爱好,即便是拒绝,也要委婉而不失去友谊。书信的写作也要注意格式,避免语法、拼写、标点错误,信中所引用的史料、数据等也应准确无误。

二、备忘录

备忘录是一种录以备忘的公文,主要用来提醒、督促对方,或就某个问题提出自己的意见或看法。包括书端、收文人的姓名、头衔、地址,称呼,事因,正文,结束语,和署名,备忘录上一定要说明什么时间,谁写的?写给谁?什么事?并且正文、结束语和署名等项与一般信件的格式相同。

三、摘要

接着谈谈摘要。摘要分成两种,一种是文章摘要,一种是论文摘要。

文章摘要就是给一篇文章让写一个摘要,文章摘要是对文章主要内容的简练概括,内容上要涵盖全文,语言上要尽量简练。写摘要前一定要仔细阅读全文,弄懂文章大意;摘要涵盖原文的主要观点并与原文的观点保持一致;摘要应该简明扼要,字数在规定的字数范围内;摘要最好不要照搬原文,应该用自己的话概括原文的主要观点;并且注意千万不要照抄,也千万不要评论,只需要写出中心思想或者段落大意即可。

第二种摘要是论文摘要。比方说是大家写一篇学术论文,硕士博士论文需要写一个英文的摘要。相对来讲我们认为考论文摘要的可能性稍微大一点。写这种摘要时要注意时态和语态。叙述研究过程,多采用一般过去时;说明某课题现已取得的成果,宜采用现在完成时。摘要中多数情况下可采用被动语态。但在某些情况下,特别是表达作者或有关专家的观点时,又常用主动语态。英文摘要有一些常用句型,比如表示研究目的,可以用Inorderto……Thispaperdescribes……Thepurposeofthisstudyis……,表示表示结论、观点或建议可以用Theauthors[suggest/conclude/consider]that……。

四、报告

最后一种是报告。报告其实也分为两种,第一种是读书报告。比如读一本书或者看一本小说写一个读书报告。读书报告中首先要交代背景知识,比如作者生平,时代简介等,接下来对书的内容做一个简单的概括,与摘要不同的是读书报告最后一段可以发表评论。与摘要相同,读书报告也要注意时态,比如像科普类的知识应该用现在式。另一种报告就是书面报告,书面报告考试(专业课历年考研试卷)的可行性和可能性更大一些。书面报告与备忘录的写法很类似,所不同的就是书面报告一般是下级写给上级,它也需要交代清楚四件事:什么时间?谁写的?写给谁?什么事?

当然,应用文写作能力的提高必须经过长期的实践锻炼。在复习阶段,首先要熟悉不同类型的应用文写作格式,注意事项,写作特点等。其次要背诵大量的优秀范文,要整段整段的背,不仅是背会而且要脱口而出,并且转换成自己的语言,写作时可以随心所欲支配。再次,是要多动手写作,要写出属于自己的文章,多动手写作才能快速写出好文章来。写好的文章要注意检查,看有无语法错误,有无用词不当,能否用其他的句式表达相同的意思,可以让同学帮忙检查,让同学提一些宝贵的意见和建议。总的来说,虽然大家对应用文的写作还比较陌生,但是只要认真对待,只要花时间背范文了,花时间写文章了,就一定能取得理想成绩。

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篇3:小升初作文写作技巧

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1、认真行文,发挥水平

提纲对作文有搭桥引路的作用,在行文阶段,更要高标准、严要求,继续活跃思维,一鼓作气,把文章写得尽全尽美。比如写议论文,一般说来,开头的文字能起到交代提出问题的背景,摆明自己的观点,提挈下文的作用即可。核心和主干部分,应以相当的篇幅和文字来证明自己提出的论点,阐发深刻的道理。它要求考生以严谨审慎的态度、清晰不紊的思路和简洁流畅的文字正确地反映出自己的独到见解。同时,还要选择恰当的论述方式,总述、分述合理安排,观点、材料紧密结合。论述中力求观点明晰、判断准确、推理严密、论证过程合乎逻辑等。结尾是作文从提出论题到论证论题的水到渠成的自然终结,是全文收束部分,要干净利落,避免节外生枝或画蛇添足。

2、平心静气,成竹在胸

考场作文的心态很重要,特别是看到自己平时没有准备的,心中没有底的作文时,有人不免要慌乱,你要告戒自己,作文是猜不到的,很正常,但我努力思考,我肯定又是熟悉的,要有自信,对自己说我能写好,成功与失败很大程度上决定于心理素质,要平心静气,努力思考,要成竹在胸,写好作文。还要不断地给自己以积极的暗示,一般的同学不妨这么想:千字小文何足惧,写出佳作大有希望。

3、仔细审题,把握材料

从近几年高考来看,作文命题是话题作文,它包括:材料,话题,限定条件。这种“限而不死”的作文形式,其优越性日渐为人们所认识。因此,按提供的材料认真审题,就成了考场作文的起点,也是写好考场作文的关键。话题作文的题面通常由话题材料、写作话题和注意事项三部分组成,其中材料是话题的依托,话题是写作的中心,注意事项是对写作提出的补充要求。审题时,这三部分都要认真揣摩,万不可顾此失彼。

这次整理就到这里啦,祝大家在考试中鱼跃龙门!

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篇4:英语写作容易出现的误区和解决方法

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通过对近些年英语作文出题的趋势来看,中考对英语写作的考察更偏重于交际情景设置和不同体裁的要求,但是由于客观和种种主观原因,很多同学的作文容易走入种种误区,这些误区主要体现在以下方面:

构思、准备不充分,匆忙下笔。任何一篇作文出题都是有它独特的道理的,所以提前审题和构思就显得必不可少了。文新学堂教学专家提醒,很多学生目 前存在一个情况,想到哪写到哪,这也造成了作文杂乱无章,毫无条理,同时容易出现写错单词和用错句型的情况。针对这种情况可以从以下几个方面予以解 决:

1、认真审题,审题的重点放在写作体裁、格式、字数方面,确保第一遍审题就能保证得到基本分。

2、确定文体和时态,因为不同的文体要求的写作格式也是 不同的

3、列提纲,打草稿,然后修改。这样可以保证错误降低至最少或者没有错误,同时也能保持卷面整洁。

中心重点不突出,切题不准确。英语写作不是语文散文(形散神不散),写英语作文,尤其是在中考大压力下短时内写出高分作文一定要注意这一点。造 成这种情况的主要原因是动笔前并没有认真审题和思考,对出题者希望得到的预期尚未揣摩透彻,这也就造成了一些同学虽然语言功底非常不错,但是最终的结果还 是没有拿到一个自己预期的心理分数,最大的问题就出在切题不准确或者不够突出中心上了。

忽视文化差异。要时刻牢记一点,中英文表达方式有很大的差异,所以体现在作文表达上也常常会出现生硬的中国式作文表达,降低了作文质量。所以注重中英语言差异,并努力找到两者之间的表达方式上的共通点,并且有意识的运用就能避免类似的问题。

忽视细节,无谓失分。很多学生在写作文时常常感觉"下笔如有神",但最终结果出来后大惑不解。这方面的问题主要体现在忽视标点、书写、段落安排、大小写的问题,所以只要更加注重细节,这些无谓失分就可以解决

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篇5:高考作文写作高分技巧

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写作的文学底蕴的差距的确是没有办法在短时期内弥补的,但是学生可以用技巧来弥补才华的不足,下面是小编整理的高考作文写作高分技巧,一起来看看!

一:作文要注重真情,把握真实是关键

构思是文章的骨架,内容是血肉,而情感则是神经。阅卷老师认为文章不是无情物,一篇好文章,就应该具有良好的情感态度,换言之,即使文章的内容很平实,但情感却足够真挚,就像朱自清先生的《背影》,同样也能憾人心魄。在考场作文中,写人记事发议论,心中饱藏真情,让现实生活的境与溢出纸外的真情相呼应,则自成佳境。没有情感的境,如同行尸走肉,令人生厌。用真情关照生活,虽一花一草,一人一物,也熠熠生辉!

二:开头结尾要简练,最好首尾两行半

大头作文要不得。除非特殊情况,建议考生在写作文的时候,开头结尾占两行半的格子,顶多不能超过三行半。

三:动笔之前要拟题,漂亮标题如美女

准备题目的办法有2个,你可以去网络上搜索作文题目,归纳作文老师讲述的类似技巧;二是翻阅最近一年的《读者》或《青年文摘》等杂志,根据题材选择一些比较精彩的标题,记下来,也许考试的时候灵光一现可以类比运用。

四:适当克隆和借鉴,考前备课攒信息

考试前,建议考生翻阅大量的范文,积累一些佳作的结构。如果写记叙文,最好翻阅《读者》和《青年文摘》,其中一些散文的结构是很好的,适当对其归纳总结,到考试的时候,你采用别人的筐,把自己的东西向里面装就可以了。

另外要关注去年至今年的社会热点。

五:篇幅争取要写满,多写一点是一点

一般来说,如果作文要求600字左右,那就顶多写到700字。如果是不低于多少字,建议考生合理安排卷面,把卷面写满到95%左右。

有人问:考试作文如果不限文体,那么写诗歌,写顺口溜,写三句半行不行?这个谁也不敢作主,你无法揣测阅卷老师的标准,冒险的收益也许只留给准备最充分的人。

六:动笔之前不要慌,想好题目列提纲

列提纲很关键。比如写记叙文,要设计好开头结尾,同时要把你叙述的事情分成几个层次,中间如果能设置一个过渡句或过渡段更好。

一个训练有素的考生,列提纲大约需要5~8分钟。如果时间紧张,提纲可以简练些。

七:作文成绩看字迹,得分要素是第一

任何形式的作文考试,阅卷老师在打分时,第一眼看的是字迹。因此,必须要把字写好,不需要多美,但一定不要潦草。

八:考试作文五六段,干净整洁看卷面

考试作文要注意分段,三四个段落有些少,八九个段落则显得琐碎。除非有特殊情况,段落应以五六个为好。切忌在一段中写八九行字,写成大肚子作文,这样会让阅卷老师产生视觉疲劳。

九:想好主题和文体,非驴非马不可取

无论记叙文还是议论文,一般来说,多是总分总结构。议论文最好是131或者141结构,当然也可以灵活地采用夹叙夹议的手法。注意,议论文不能说了那么多事例却不归纳主题,而记叙文不能议论过多而忘记说事例。

十:作文首尾要精彩,丰富多彩出亮点

考试作文的开头方法很多:六要素开头法、题记开头法、悬念开头法、引名句开头法、排比句开头法、拟人式开头法、设问式开头法、对偶式开头法、合用修辞开头法、巧述典故开头法、解题式开头法、诗文引用开头法希望考生们准备好一些关于道德、学习、礼仪、爱国、美德等方面的典故、名人名言,用得上。

一般来说,结尾是总结全文。如果是记叙文,要注意抒情;如果是议论文,要注意归纳。无论如何,最好要扣准标题。

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篇6:浅谈中学生随笔的写作的方法

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随笔和其他文体有所不同,它没有正襟危坐、一本正经的作文架势,其文思常常如“风吹林响,泉激石鸣”,即兴而生,随意而发,不求自得;其行文如汩汩山泉,顺势而下,意到笔随;其题材可大可小,其篇幅可长可短,完全发乎自然。但随笔看似随意,实则费心,它往往从生活中和书本上随处得题,信手拈来,借题生发。它的视野比较开阔,谈天说地中

传达出深刻独到的人生体验,左右逢源中表现出渊博的知识,它的思路不拘泥于一点静止不动,而是如行云流水般通达酣畅。当然,中学生的随笔写作与作家们的随笔创作在深度、广度、厚度上有所不同,但在写作本质上并没有什么不同,即随意、自由、小巧、雅致、隽永,贵在写出自己的真情,显出自己的性灵,给读者“一点清凉”、“一点宁静”、“一点感动”、“一点启迪”,真正做到“我手写我心”。

中学生怎样才能写好随笔呢?笔者认为,应该做到以下四个方面:

一、敏感

现代社会,日新月异,生活的变化,心态的波动,喜怒哀乐,千姿百态。敏感的、善于观察和感悟的学生,会抓住生活中的一段经历、一丝感触、一星冥想、一次奇遇、一次邂逅、一点纠葛、一个插曲、一场梦幻,自然界的一丛草木、一块山石、一朵鲜花、一片雪花、一只飞鸟、一场雨雪、一颗流星,也可以是一个画面、一种意境、一个人物,甚至是偶尔听到的几句对话,以及从生活平面飞跃的一点浮想,都可能心有所动,激

发情感,产生思想。所谓“灵犀一动,心有所感”,“乘兴走笔,倚马可待”,说的就是这种情景。细小、片断、零散、平凡的事物,常常容易被学生忽视,偶尔获得的新鲜感受、情思火花又稍纵即逝,学生没有灵敏的感觉,没有沉思的心灵。就可能失之交臂。所以,学生要有一颗敏感的心,敏锐地抓住偶尔得来、稍纵即逝的对话、动作、场面、情思、感受,把它写出来,写得别具意味,引人人胜,令人回味。

二、真实

余秋雨说:“散文是一种不带什么表演意识的直白坦示,在散文中的任何矫情、空泛、玩弄比在其他文体中更让人难受。”“散文作为一种文体的自立首先是一种心态的自立。”这段话启发我们,随笔最擅长的是以一颗真诚的心。抒写自己在生活中的所见所闻所思所感。“我手写我心”,这颗心。应该是一颗真实的心灵,不矫揉,不做作,更不能虚伪。应该指导学生不拘一格,随心而写,尚真忌伪,无论是叙述描写,还是抒情议论,都要真实地反映自我的观察,自我的认识,自我的评价,摒弃虚情假意,反对刻意为文。真实再现,真切流露,真情表达,纯净自然,出于天籁。从某种意义说,随笔就是作者与自己心灵的真诚对话,就是真挚地向读者袒露自己的灵魂,绝无矫饰。

三、有昧

随笔作为一种自由的文体,应该努力写出一些意味,因情而动,依实写来,联类生发,议论风生,联想升华,率性而作,涉笔成趣,从而表现了一种认识,一种体验,一种感情,一种咀嚼,形成一种情景理相生、含蓄蕴藉的意向空间,呈现出意蕴、情致、理趣,空灵中有实,飘逸中有根,柔媚中有骨,或以事感人,或以情动人,或以思想启迪人,以智慧愉悦人,才能有意味,才能意味深长。当然,这一切不需要长时间准备,也不需要反复酝酿,正如陆游所说:“文章本天成,妙手偶得之。”不需要刻意追求,偶尔得之即可。

四、灵活

随笔在构思上具有零散性、发散性、随机性,学生面对一物之微、一时之得,生发出丰富的联想和想象,比物连类,上下串联,一气贯注,敷衍成篇。在表达方式上,可再现一个小场景,可记叙一个小事情,可描写一个鲜明的人物,可抒发一种动人的情感,可表达一种独特的感悟。在风格上,可朴实清秀,可雄浑刚劲,可潇洒俊逸,可峭利冷峻,可冲淡平和。可空灵温婉,可娟秀纤巧,可充满乡野之气,可洋溢都市风情,可庄可谐,丰富多彩。在篇幅上,长短不拘,长的可达千字,短的百字左右,随表意的需要而定,一般以短章小制为主。

随笔的随意、自由为学生的写作提供了广阔的空间,但也要防止两种可能出现的问题:一是立意的粗俗,层次低,随心所欲,缺少思辨,思想观点偏颇,总是着眼于个人得失,局限于个人小天地,肆意发挥个人的不健康情感;二是用笔的粗糙,结构安排、技巧运用、语言表达上不讲究,缺少审美眼光,泛泛道来,寒伧浅陋,面目可憎。为此,需要引导学生立意高远,追求情趣理趣,生动、形象、自然、鲜活、丰富、精美,富于文采。

真切而不沉重,轻灵而不空泛,自然而有品位,恬淡而有趣味,应该是中学生随笔写作追求的目标。

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篇7:话题作文常见写作方法

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话题作文是比较自由的一种写作文体,也是比较难以抱我中心的一种写作类型,以下是小编整理的话题作文常见写作方法,欢迎参考阅读!

一、把握文体

话题作文往往不限文体,允许考生自由发挥。但是,不限文体并不等于不要文体。话题作文的“文体不限”其实是指不限于一种文体,让学生有选择文体的自由。

当你选定了一种文体时,还得按照这种文体的特点来谋篇布局进行写作。有的同学观察能力强,生活积累丰富,不妨将生活中精彩的片断撷取出来写成一篇生动感人的记叙文;有的同学想象丰富,长编写故事,不妨写写童话、寓言或科幻小说;有的同学逻辑思维能力强,擅长推理,不妨写成一篇理据充分的议论文;有的同学感情细腻丰富,不妨写成一篇优美抒情的散文,肯定会非常出色。

二、缩小范围

话题作文只提供写作的话题,而没有中心、材料、结构、文体、语言等等的限制;给了考生一个比较开放的构思空间,使考生能最大限度:地发挥想象力和创造力。但是,如果不注意把握话题,缩小写作的口子,就会出现“下笔千言,离题万里”的毛病。因此,不管所给的话题多么宽泛,我们都要善于缩小“包围圈”,要选择一个小小的切人口,如一件事、一个人、一样物品、一种感受、一点看法等等,集中笔力加以突破,把你所选择的话题角度写细写深写透,做到“以小见大”。

三、拟好题目

标题是文章的“眼睛”。俗话说:“题好一半文”。话题作文允许自己拟题目,因此,我们要努力提高拟题水平,力争使自己拟的题目准确、凝炼、含蓄、新奇,使阅卷老师“一见钟情”。

四、善子联想

话题作文是一种开放性的作文形式,要求考生放开手脚,尽情地驰骋在想象的空间,善于多方位地展开联想,这样,才能生发出丰富多彩的思路来。比如话题 “风”,你可以联想到自然界的风:微风、大风、狂风、飓风、龙卷风等等;你还可以联想到社会风气:拍马风、送礼风等等;你可以联想到一种像风一样的流行时尚:金庸热、韩寒热等等;你甚至可以联想到假如你是风,假如你遇到风等等。

五、写出新意

话题作文既然是应试作文,总得给评卷老师一个好的感觉,得-个好的分数。因此,写出特色、写出新意是十分重要的。我们在写作时,要善于“独辟蹊径”,也就是要求我们在立意上要有特的感悟,不入云亦云;选材上要有独到的眼光,不陈题旧话;构思上要独具匠心,不四平八稳,波澜不惊语气上要有独到的魅力,不平铺直叙泛泛而谈。

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篇8:学校毕业实习工作计划的写作方法

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一、实习目的与要求

实践教学是本科教学的重要环节,对于提高学生的综合素质、培养学生的创新精神与实践能力具有特殊作用。而毕业实习更是培养、训练学生观察社会、认识社会以及学生将大学四年所学的专业基础知识与社会实际相结合以提高分析和解决实际问题能力的重要学习过程,也是毕业班学生走向社会,寻找工作和就业不可或缺的训练步骤。

通过实习要求同学们了解、熟悉党和国家的各项方针、政策,初步掌握政府机关、企事业单位的各项基础工作和各项职能实践;了解公共管理和社会工作的基本情况、存在的问题及改进对策;巩固和完善学校里学过的理论知识,提高学生的实际动手能力,分析问题和解决问题的能力。

二、实习安排

(一)实习动员阶段(本学期结束前)

1、主要是实习联系期间,主要根据学校教学计划和学生意愿,到各地市教育系统征求实习意向,取得支持和帮助。

2、召开实习动员和出征仪式,主要请学院分管教学的副院长和各专业系主任进行实习的动员工作,并对实习期间的具体工作提出相关的希望和要求。

(二)实习阶段(下学期开学后第1至7周 )

1、实习地点:由学生根据就近(指原籍)、相关(指专业)和安全的原则自己选择地点和单位。

2、实习方式:基地实习、分散实习、岗前培训实习、过境外实习、校内实训实习和自主创新实习。

(三)实习总结阶段(实习结束后2周内)

1、做好实习总结,认真填写好实习总结表。

2、组织座谈、交流心得、体会、经验。

三、组织领导

1、成立公共管理学院实习领导小组,由学院院长(任组长)、党总支书记、分管教学的副院长、有毕业生的各专业系主任、学院办公室主任、学院教学秘书、各毕业班辅导员组成,负责整个实习过程的领导工作。

实习领导小组负责制定毕业实习管理制度和考核方法,审定毕业实习计划,审核毕业实习成绩和优秀毕业实习学生名单。

2、实行指导教师负责制,毕业生毕业实习的指导教师原则上为毕业生毕业论文指导教师,即导师不仅要指导毕业论文,同时还要指导和管理学生的毕业实习工作。指导教师必须定期与学生进行双向沟通,指导与督促学生按计划进行实习,帮助学生解决实习过程中出现的各种困难。

3、要求实习单位指定一位有实践经验的同志担任实习生的指导老师,对实习生进行思想上、业务上的指导与监督。

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一、写自己事情的作文类型

1.写自己遇到的一件事,表现社会的新风尚;

2.写自己个人的一件事,写出自己从中所受到的教育;

3.写自己的一件事,表达自己的一种感情,表明自己的一种愿望;

4.写自己遇到的一次挫折,说明自己从中所得到的一种启示;

5.写自己的一件事,说明自己已经长大懂事了;6.写自己的爱好和追求;

7.写自己的业余生活;

8.回忆自己童年生活的一件事,写出童年的可爱与美好。

二、写自己事情的参考题目

1.《这件事给了我教育》

2.《我学会了____》

3.《我做了一件傻事》

4.《我从中得到了快乐》

5.《我为此而自豪》

6.《我养成了一个好习惯》

7.《我尝到了动脑筋的甜头》

8.《老师夸奖了我》

9.《当我被误解的时候》

10.《我的爱好》

11.《我第一次______》

12.《学习中的一次教训》

13.《我心中的一个小秘密》

14.《我在假日里》

15.《我的星期天》

16.《玩得最开心的一次》

17.《我的心事》

18.《我的烦恼》

19.《想起这件事就____》

20.《我爱_______》

21.《童年趣事》

22.《我长大了》

23.《关怀》

24.《留在照片上的记忆》

25.《雨中情》

26.《______见闻》

五、写自己事情的参考段落

1.预备,跳!一声令下,我立即摆开双臂快速摇动绳子,双脚轮换踩着。才跳了一会儿,真怪,平时跳惯的绳子,今天显得特别重,跳步也慢了。我瞄了一下对面王港队的选手,她跳得多快,多轻松呀!猛然间,耳畔响起教练常说的跳绳要领:别慌,脚步要踩稳,速度要平均,作好呼吸。我照着要领跳着,跳着。时间一分一分地过去了,我大口大口地喘着气,额角的汗珠向下滑,手也慢慢不听使唤,渐渐地向下垂。我暗暗地责怪自己:真没用,才这么一会儿就挺不住了,这样怎能为校争光?时间不多了,一定要作最后的冲刺!我咬紧牙关,又一次地加快了速度,心中只有一个念头:跳得快些,跳得再快些到!突然一声令下,我停了下来,深深地吸了一口气,绳子也从手中滑了下去。这时我顾不得擦汗,忙转到裁判员身后,一瞧,啊,一分半钟我竟跳了340下!这是我有史以来最好的成绩呀!

(跳绳本来是应该全神贯注的事情,但小作者却写了好几处的心理活动。这些描写应该还是可信的。它放在文章中,能够使得内容丰富,把人物写活。划一划,哪些是描写人物心理活动的?)

2.轮到我跳了,我想,我也露一手给你们看看,让你们也知道我的厉害。也许太大意了,也许是太小心了,不知怎么的,我连第一局也没有跳下来就被罚了下来。过了一会儿,又轮到我了,这次我稳定了情绪,跳的时候稍微放松了一点儿。果然跳得顺利了,皮筋一个劲儿地上升,眼看就要超过孙丽了。我得意地看了孙丽一眼,谁想到就在这时,脚下误踩了皮筋,真倒霉!

(以第一人称为写作方式的作文,看起来描写心里的想法是很重要的。你看,这一段又有不少心理描写。)

3.第二天,我仍在校门口值日,左等右等不见陈老师来。我心里暗暗庆幸,也许陈老师早就进去了,用不着我再为难了。正当我关上校门时,一辆自行车飞驰而来。我定睛一看,正是陈老师。我有些慌乱,放还是拦?两个念头同时撞击着我的脑袋,我又犹豫了。我看见站在对面的严鹤正注视着我,好像在说:班主任老师来了,你敢拦车吗?但想到陈老师那爱蹙起的川字眉头,我又畏缩了。我头一低,看见了胸前的红领巾,想起了值日员的职责,便鼓起勇气,上前一步,叫了一声:陈老师早!接着便结结巴巴地说:陈老师,请您下车,推车进校门。我说得很轻,说完,又偷偷地看了他一眼。陈老师脸一红,点了下头,一句话也没说,下了车,推着车走进了校门。

(写作文一定要选择那些新鲜有趣的材料,很少有人写过的。这一段可以说是一个很好的例子。)

4.这天下午,一个难忘的时刻来到了!从主席台上传来了会议主持人的声音:请三年级一班周瑜上台发表竞选演说!我从座位上站了起来,心扑通扑通地跳着,走到台前,举起右手,行了个队礼。接着,大声地向大会发表竞选演说:我叫周瑜,原来是三年级一班的大队委员,我平时学习成绩优良,一、二年级时分别获得语文和数学的年级第一名发言快要结束的时候,我不禁停了停,心里想,那句话是说还是不说呢?我脑子里闪过一个念头:想什么就说什么吧!最后,我给大家念了一首我发表在《中国儿童报》的小诗《望天空》。下台时还说了一句:请大家投我一票!谢谢大家!

(选材的确很重要,有了较好的材料,才能写出较高质量的文章。你看,这一段写我的一件难忘的事,是不是与众不同呢?)

5.中午,大家正在玩,胡光突然叫了起来:俺岳元帅来了!大家都笑了起来。他悄悄告诉我:喂,我们想选你当演员。演谁?我问。我不告诉你,你看我做个动作,再猜一猜。说完,他两手放在腰间,一扭一扭地学着老太太过马路的样子。我一下明白了,他要我演岳老夫人呀!徐一鸣见了,忙对我说:啊,这下我们的胡光要叫你母亲大人了。演岳云的李宾要叫你奶奶了!说完,他调皮地在我面前跪了下来,说:拜见岳老夫人!引起大家哈哈大笑。我却难为情地低下了头。

(文章中的谁写得最成功?是胡光还是徐一鸣?读读他们的对话和行动就知道了。)

6.在沉思的时候,我们不知不觉地进入了大森林。老师的坟墓到了。上面是新土,还挺湿的。我们围着坟墓席地而坐,摆上老师爱吃的水果,唱起老师生前喜爱的歌:鸽子啊,在蓝天中飞翔一曲唱完,大家抱头痛哭。哭声是那么悲伤,连天上的小鸟,周围哗哗作响的树林,山中的小草,都静了下来。

(把老师喜爱的一首歌的歌词摘录在里面,是非常感人的。所以,在自己文章中,如果需要,适当地引用一些歌词呀,诗歌呀等等,能够增加你的文章的文采。)

7.我推开病房的弹簧门,他被惊动了。抬起头,他一眼便看见了我。只见他惊讶得嘴巴张得老大老大的,眼睛也瞪得滚圆滚圆的。我笑着走上前,说:怎么,不欢迎我吗?他半晌才醒悟过来,低着脑袋,用蚊子一样的低声说:啊,欢迎,欢迎,请坐!我在他床前坐下,笑着问了他的病情,告诉他学校里的一些新闻,让他告诉我病房里的一些新闻。我俩谈得还挺投机的。最后,我对他说:你开始很惊奇,我怎么会来看你,对吗?我来的目的,就是要破破你们不理女同学的规矩。为什么我们男女同学之间的界线要划得那么清?你们那个封建的思想呀,得好好改改了!他摸着脑袋瓜,不好意思地笑了。

(写男同学的羞涩非常传神,你看其中的描写:低着脑袋,用蚊子一样的声音等,让人读了以后就好像见到那位男同学一样。)

8.我看到这情景,马上对老奶奶说:老奶奶,您受骗了,其实他称的时候做了手脚,您这里不足两斤。老奶奶还没醒悟过来,那小贩可就急了,他看我是小孩子,以为可欺,就气势汹汹地对我说:你小孩子家懂什么?不要管闲事!我赶紧把我亲眼目睹的情形对老奶奶说了一遍,老奶奶半信半疑地走到那儿,让他再称称。小贩不肯称。我问他:你刚才称时,为什么用小指头先压秤盘呢?小贩一时不知怎么回答才好,他找了个可笑的理由,说他这把秤是从外地买来的,称东西时,一定要先压一下秤盘。我知道他在强词夺理,就叫他和老奶奶一起到公平秤上去称。到了公平秤那里,我亲自掌秤,那2斤草莓,在公平秤上只称出了1斤7两。老奶奶这时才知道自己上了当。这时市场管理处的同志也来了,叫小贩给老奶奶补上了三两草莓,还对小贩做了罚款处理。

(写事情的经过,写老奶奶的变化过程,都很清楚,一点也不乱。)

9.妈妈面带微笑,坐在我的对面讲我小时候的事,她说:小时候的你特别可爱,稀稀的微微带黄的头发,有趣得很。每当妈妈下班,总会先看到你的头露出大门,一双大眼睛盯着远处,寻找妈妈的身影,当我走近,你便会跑过来,我就一把搂住你,亲你光滑的小脸。有一次,你错把一位妇女当成是妈妈,又跑过去。可当你看清不是妈妈时,你的小脸泛红了,一溜烟跑回家去了。听了妈妈的讲述,我不好意思地把脸靠在了妈妈身上。

(妈妈讲述我小时候的事情,让我对妈妈生出无限的爱意。最后一句话写得很深情,也很含蓄。)

10.想到这里,我便踮着脚,小心翼翼地把奶粉罐头捧了下来,舀了几勺,放在了已经准备好的鞋子里,一本正经地拿了一把刷子,坐在一张小凳子上,放了一点水,便开始刷了起来,刷子和奶粉粘住了,刷起来很困难。我以为是水放得少了一点,于是我又放了满满一鞋子的水。正在准备刷的时候,妈妈回来了。看了我这个样子,她不解地问:你在干什么呀?我把前后的经过说了一下,妈妈笑得前俯后仰,把我弄得怪不好意思的。妈妈笑完后,对我说:你呀,你呀!真是个小傻瓜!奶粉怎么能当肥皂粉洗鞋子呢!听了妈妈的话,我难为情地低下了头。

(好笑好笑真好笑,奶粉洗鞋水中泡。童年的故事真是幼稚而又可笑。)

11.我一本正经地走到讲台前,拿出小卡片,带着他们朗读拼音,不一会儿,教室里响起了琅琅的读书声。听着悦耳的读书声,我真高兴啊!正当我暗暗得意的时候,情况却大有变化。自习课上我叫他们读书,他们硬是不听,来到教室以后,有的追追打打,有的大吵大闹。唉,怎么办呢?一抬头,我看到了教室里比一比,赛一赛的评比表,心里顿时豁然开朗。于是我拿起粉笔在黑板上写了一、二、三、四、五、六、七,代表七个小组,看看哪个小组纪律好,就在上面加一个五角星。我刚写完,咦?身后怎么一点声音也没有了?哦,原来是这些小家伙都想为小组争光呢!只见他们一个个拿出书本,坐得端端正正的,好像突然都变了一个人似的。看着这情景,我长长地吐了一口气。

(一个小小的招法,使班级的纪律安静了下来;一个小小的曲折,也使得这个小故事富有变化,增加了读者阅读的趣味。)

12.各就各位,预备,跑!我一听到口令,撒腿就跑。跑了不久,我就被抛在了最后。这时,我并不气馁。过了好一会儿,别的运动员可能是感到力气不够了,他们开始减速了,而我倒觉得浑身仿佛有无穷的力气。不知不觉,已经跑了七圈了,终点就在前面。我开始加速。我屏住了气,咬紧牙,直冲终点。在离终点还有几步路的时候,我和第二位同学肩擦着肩,几乎同时往终点冲。就在最后半步的时候,我猛地把身子往上一纵,腾空跃过了终点!哈,我得了第一名!

(最后一句话的几个词语用得很准确,比如,往上一纵、腾空跃入。)

13.我抓住菱桶的边缘,小心地侧着身子,看准一个大菱叶,伸手去抓,可是菱桶倾斜起来,吓得我倒在姐姐身上。姐姐看见我这狼狈样,不由得笑了起来。顿时,我脸涨得通红。姐姐鼓励我说:不要紧,再试试看。我暗暗为自己鼓劲,别怕,别怕!我小心翼翼地伸出了手,学着姐姐的样,抓起了菱叶,用力一折,几只红艳艳的水菱,落到了我的手里,我高兴极了,举起了菱,兴奋地说:瞧,姐姐,我也采到菱了!随手拿起一个,剥去壳,咬了一口,好清甜好爽口。

(由害怕到不害怕,由不会采摘到学会采摘,这个过程写得很具体完整。最后写菱的味道,实际上是在衬托我的喜悦之情。不过,采菱这种事还是由大人来干比较好,小孩子太危险了。)

14.看着眼前的这只生西瓜,我一下子泄了气。妈妈笑了笑说:没关系,再开一只。说着,她拿起第二只西瓜,丝的一声,瓜成了两半。哈,太好了!我高兴地喊道。看!那鲜红的爪瓤,黑黝黝的瓜子,还是薄皮的呢!妈妈绽开了笑脸,说:怎么样?这下满意了吧!接着,她把西瓜一块一块地切成了小船儿。我迫不及待地拿起一块最大的,尝了一口,哈,真是比蜜糖还甜!那鲜红的瓜瓤里不住地渗出汁水来,我一抹嘴角,说声味道好极了,又大口地吃了起来。

我正想拿起第二块的时候,忽然看到妈妈正在吃那只生的白瓤西瓜,我的脸唰地一下红了

(小作者运用比喻的能力很强,通过一块一块切成了‘小船儿’这句话可以看出来;而且,他也很懂事,这在哪里可以看出来?)

15.我情不自禁地蹲下了身子,轻轻地抚摸着小麻雀零乱的羽毛,我正想把它抱起来,这时候我听见了汪汪汪的狗叫声。我倒退几步,抬头一看,一条强壮的大黑狗正对着我狂叫,吐出血红的舌头,好像要马上扑上来咬我一口似的。我吓坏了,扔下小麻雀,赶紧跑开了。当我跑得远远的,再转过身来看时,那可恶的大黑狗已经把小麻雀咬在了嘴里!我真想冲上去,可我又不敢。我好像看到了小麻雀的那双眼睛,似乎正向我发出求救!我哇地大哭起来,心里难受极了!我眼睁睁地看着大黑狗吃掉了小麻雀。

(在生活里,像文章中这样让人悔恨的事情是很多的。只要我们培养自己丰富的感情,经常地了解和接触生活,我们写起文章来,就不会有没啥好写的感觉。特别是自己的事情,那是最最熟悉的。只要在写作前加以回忆,就一定会把许多真实的事情和许多真切的想法都写出来。)

三、写自己事情的参考开头

1.《老师夸奖我》的两种开头

第一种开头:张兵同学在这次全年级的体育比赛中,获得了跳高第一名的好成绩,在这里,我向他表示祝贺!在班级晨会上,周老师用喜悦的语调对我进行了表扬。我当时心里真是高兴得像喝了蜜糖一样。第二种开头:周老师从来也没有夸奖过我,只因为我平时的表现太差劲了。可这次,她却在全班大声地表扬了我,这真是让我高兴坏了!

2.《我第一次_____》的两种开头

第一种开头:还记得我第一次学溜冰的情景,一下子我竟摔了八个跟头!

第二种开头:双休日,表弟来约我溜冰。溜冰?我又好奇又害怕,但最后还是禁不住表弟的广告宣传,来到了设在第一百货公司五楼的奇妙溜冰场。

3.《我心中的一个小秘密》的两种开头

第一种开头:在我心中,有一个谁也不知道的小秘密,这就是我想在妈妈生日的那一天,为妈妈买一双皮手套。

第二种开头:妈妈是我们家最辛苦的人,只要看看她手上的老茧就知道了。每次看到妈妈的手,我就悄悄地想:妈妈,等我有了钱,我一定要为你买上一副皮手套。

4.《当我被误解的时候》的两种开头

第一种开头:我怎么也没有想到王红会这样看我,把我的一片好心全理解错了!事情是这样的:

第二种开头:早晨,我一到学校,王红就走上来,指着我的鼻子说:刘莹,我认识你了,以后再也不会睬你了!我当时莫名其妙,等到我明白过来,气得怎么也说不出话来了。

5.《童年趣事》的两种开头

第一种开头:我记得在我三年级那阵子,我特别馋,只要看见人家吃东西,嘴里就忍不住要淌口水。

第二种开头:在我的童年中,有许多难忘的事情,但最让我好笑的还是小时候我把奶粉当作洗衣粉的那件傻事。

6.《我养成了一个好习惯》的两种开头

第一种开头:原来我在早晨起床之后,是从来也不叠被子的。自从学校里开展了五自活动之后,我终于养成了早晨起床叠被子的好习惯。

第二种开头:星期六,我照老规矩,睡了一个懒觉,起床后,又照老规矩把被子一掀,就去刷牙洗脸了。

7.《雨中情》的两种开头

第一种开头:春雨,淅淅沥沥地下着,我因为没有带伞,就只好在雨中淋着。

第二种开头:看了看外面越下越大的春雨,我犹豫了一下,最后还是走进了雨中。

8.《_____见闻》的两种开头

第一种开头:来来来,芹菜五角钱一斤!便宜啦,便宜啦!毛豆一块!毛豆一块!新鲜啦,新鲜啦!刚上市的豌豆苗!又嫩又补,是绿色蔬菜啊!一踏进小菜场,满耳朵就是这些叫卖的声音。

第二种开头:双休日,妈妈对我说:走,跟妈妈去学买菜!也随便到小菜场看看。我一听就高兴地跟妈妈去了。

四、写自己事情的参考词句

勤奋学习/专心致志/死记硬背/熟能生巧/七嘴八舌/新鲜空气/透过窗户/目送/恨不得/把我乐坏了/融洽/若无其事/无处倾诉/阵阵笑声/凉透了/羞愧/吓唬吓唬/津津有味/倒吸一口冷气/得意起来/灰溜溜/园溜溜/眼花缭乱/目不暇接/奇异风景/潺潺的流水声/呼噜呼噜/碧玉似的明镜/一辈子

1.我一时呆住了,真有点丈二和尚摸不着头脑。

2.我疑团大解,真想不到一两个字也有这么大的学问呢。

3.我心里像喝了蜜汁一样甜。

4.陈老师一把把王俊拖出了门外,我吓得大气也不敢出。

5.我这时有点害怕,举手吧,我还不太会背,不举吧,老师批评我怎么办?

6.谢老师望着我,眼睛里闪烁着鼓励和期待的光。

7.悔恨的泪水模糊了我的双眼,老师严厉的指责我没有听见,同学们小声的议论我也没有听见。

8.望着显示器上的程序,我兴奋得从座位上跳了起来。

9.我连忙把手藏到背后,身子直往后缩。

10.我万万没有想到郭老师竟会有这样严厉的举动,只觉得是针对我来的,脸上阵阵发烧,大滴大滴的泪水涌出了眼眶。

11.回到家,趁妈妈不注意,我赶紧把皱和惹写在小纸条上,沾上点水,握在左右两只手里,藏在背后,大模大样地走进厨房,用肩扛了扛忙着做饭的妈妈。

12.我有点不知所措地抓了一块抹布,大把大把地擦了起来,由于用力过猛,墨汁溅得到处都是。

13.尽管大雨浇湿了我的衣服,冷得我直哆嗦,可我心里却热乎乎的。

14.但是我的脚却像灌了铅一样的提不起来,速度比以前慢了许多。

15.我的两只脚站也站不稳,身子轻飘飘的,像是一只漂在水里的大皮球。

六、写自己事情的参考题材

1.自己原先学习不太认真,后来因为受到了一件事情的教育,终于改变了认识,提高了学习的自觉性;

2.晚上做题目,遇到了一个难题,心里想算了吧,但一想到这是考验自己的意志,就咬紧牙关,继续做了下去;

3.自己的一个同桌是个学习比较差的学生,自己在期中考试前,放弃休息时间,帮助他补课,终于使他的考试成绩有了较大的提高;

4.妈妈因为工作的需要,她决心学习英语,我便开始当上了她的小老师;

5.我拒绝了一位同学让我帮助他作弊的要求,虽然我失去了一位所谓的朋友,但我捍卫了自己的尊严;

6.我改变了原先上课从来也不举手发言的习惯,因为我开始认识到一个人具有口头表达能力的重要;

(以上可以作为写自己个人事情的参考题材。)

7.我开始认识到爸妈工作的辛苦,开始珍惜他们给我的爱;

8.在妈妈生日的这一天,我特地去买了一件小礼物送给她,还给她写上一段深情的话语;

9.在爸妈结婚纪念这一天,我在广播电台里点了一首歌,祝愿他们幸福快乐,白头到老,爸妈非常激动;

10.有个同学在班级里伤害了我,但当我知道她的妈妈不在了的时候,我就从内心里深深地同情她,当然也原谅了她;

11.我最近从一本书里看到一些做人的道理,我联系自己的生活,觉得很有道理;

(以上可以作为写自己感情经历的作文题材。)

12.我喜欢溜冰,还喜欢看足球,有时晚上也要起来看;

13.我有收藏游览门券的习惯,我觉得这是一个很好的爱好,能够增长知识,不出家门,就能游览到祖国的大好河山;

14.我喜欢散步,一边走走,一边看看,既能看到景色,又能得到休息;

15.我喜欢逛街,每次跟妈妈去逛街,我总能得到不少的商品信息,也更加能够感到我们国家的大好形势;

16.我喜欢养小鸟,每次我养小鸟的时候,我的心情就特别高兴,我养的小鸟都好像认识我,能跟我对话似的。

(以上可以作为写自己业余生活的题材。)

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篇10:辞职信写作方法_1100字

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员工提出辞职,一般情况下,是需要向单位递交正式的辞职信的。辞职信本身,作为员工的一种结束与单位之间劳动关系的意思表示,是具有法律效力,并且会对劳动关系结束的性质、双方责任的划分产生最有决定性的影响。因此,员工在写辞职信时,是需要慎重思考,绝对有必要三思而后行的。

为了使员工能够更好地保护自己的权利,我们从实践中碰到的员工因为提出辞职而利益受损的几个案例,总结出以下需要注意的方面,供想辞职的员工参考:

1、了解辞职权利的性质;

作为一名员工,在写辞职信之前,不要仓促行为,也不要意气用事。想辞职时,就先要想清楚,你想行使的是哪一种辞职的权利,这种性质的判断,是需要一定的法律基础的。

员工辞职的权利,共计有三种,其一是与单位协商,这是不需要员工单独拟写辞职信的;其二是员工提前三十日提出辞职,这种辞职的权利是一种预告解除劳动合同的权利,在现实中还是受到一些限制的,而且有可能会承担向单位支付违约金的责任,因此,在行使这种权利时,作为员工,应当深思一下;其三是即时辞职权利,这种辞职权利,员工是不需要向单位承担任何赔偿或者违约责任的,但是这种辞职需要法定的理由。

2、寻找合适的辞职理由;

在想清楚辞职权利的前提下,员工需要确定自己选择哪一种性质的辞职,并且在确定之后,寻找合适的辞职理由。协商解除,只需要双方同意即可,不需要特别的理由;预告解除,只需要提前三十日通知即可,也不需要特别的理由;即时辞职,需要特别的理由,其理由形式主要为单位不依法缴纳社保或者拖欠工资或者不付加班费等诸种情形。

3、措词温和,不可激化矛盾;

找到合适的理由之后,在具体行文时,不可语气过于生硬,不可因辞职信本身而与单位激化矛盾。但是更不可过于委曲求全,不敢宣告理由而使自己被动。

4、顺利取得相应的证据;

员工对于自己辞职的行为本身、辞职的理由负有举证责任。因此员工在辞职前、辞职时就应当有意识地保留相应的证据。比如领导签过字的辞职申请,自己写的辞职信,单位发的工资条等各种证据,需要切记的是,证据需要是原件。

5、作好仲裁或者诉讼的心理准备。

如果你与单位之间的劳动合同中约定了违约金的话,就要做好单位可能会向你索要的心理准备;如果你的档案存在单位的话,就要做好单位可能会扣留档案的心理准备;如果你的社保关系在单位的话,也要做好单位不给你办转的心理准备吧。

总之,辞职跳槽本身对于员工来说,是一个有风险的行为。在做出这个行为之前,需要深思并做好承担风险的心理准备,并且需要储备相应的法律常识来保存对自己有利的证据,必要时,也需要求助于专业律师为妥。

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篇11:小学生记叙文写作技巧精选

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记叙文写作,是把自己的亲身感受和经历,通过生动、形象的语言,描述给读者。

记叙文包括的范围很广,如记人记事,日记、游记、传说、新闻、通讯、小说等,都属于记叙文的范畴。

记叙文写的是生活中的见闻,要表达出作者对于生活的真切感受。

总的说,以记叙和描写为主要表达方式的文章叫记叙文。

但记叙文写作,伴随自然流漏的适当议论和抒情。

记叙文有广义与狭义之分。

广义的记叙文,包括记叙性的文学作品,如散文、小说,等。

狭义的记叙文是指以记人、叙事、写景、状物为主,对社会生活中的人、事、景、物的情态变化和发展进行叙述和描写的一类 文章,常见的如消息、通讯、特写、报告文学、游记、日记、参观记、回忆录,以及一部分书信等。 正因为记叙文写的是生活中的见闻,所以一定要表达出作者对于生活的真切感受。

记叙文的特点

记叙文的特点就是以记叙为主要表达方式,综合其他表达方式;以记人、叙事、写景、状物为主要内容;通过描述人物、时间及状物、写景来表达一定的中心。

记叙文是指记人、叙事、写景、状物等类的文章。古代的记、传、序、表、志等,现代的消息、通讯、简报、特写、传记、回忆录、游记等,都属于记叙文的范畴。

写作记叙文要做到一下几点:

第一,要交代明白。无论记人记事,还是写景状物,一般都要交代明白时间、地点、人物、事件、原因、结果,否则文章就不完整。

第二,线索清楚。虽然观察的角度、记述的方式可以不同,但每一篇文章都应当有一条绾联材料、统贯全篇的中心线索,否则文章就会松散。

第三,人称要一致。无论用第一人称“我”记述,还是用第三人称“他”记述,都要通篇一贯,一般不宜随意转换,否则就容易造成混乱。

第四,时间,地点,人物,起因,经过,结果。 记叙文以记叙为主,但往往也间有描写、抒情和议论,不可能有截然的划分。它是一种形式灵活、写法尽可能多样的文体。

记叙文,是以叙述为主要表达方式,以写人物的经历和事物发展变化为主要内容的一种文体。

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篇12:写作方法:游记的写作技巧

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游记是指我们参观游览一个地方所写下的景物描写以及感慨描述。那么游记怎么写呢?下面是小编为大家整理的游记的写作技巧,希望能帮到您!

一、按游览的顺序描写景物。写作时,要在认真观察和记忆游览的景物的基础上,按照见到景物的次序,来所写看到的景物。这样才能做到条理清楚、自然、明白,不致于杂乱。观察景物,通常有两种方法。一种就是定点观察。如站在公园某一角,对公园进行由远及近的观察。又如我们登上塔顶,从东南西北四个东南西北四个方向对塔下景物进行观察。二就是移动观察,它又叫移步换位法。就是随着脚步的移动变换位置,一处一处地进行观察。选好了观察点,就是确定好了写的顺序。如课文《参观人民大会堂》,按参观的顺序,依次写了五处的景物。先写大会堂正门的国徽和柱子,其次写中央大厅的天花板和地面,接着写大礼堂,然后写宴会厅和会议厅。这样,就有条理有重点地写下了在大会堂所看到的景物。

二、抓住游览重点,详写过程。一次参观游览活动,看到的景物很多,我们不能记“流水帐”。要把看到的景物中印象较深的写下来,其余地可以写得简略些。我们在一边参观游览,一边要抓住景物的特点,进行仔细观察。比方说,我们要写游览看到的景物为主的记叙文,写作的重点就是把看到的景物重点写下来。对于我们看到的特别好的景物,我们要进行具体地描写,突出重点。对于重点的景物,要注意详细描写出它们的位置、大小、动态、静态、颜色等。如我们写“菊花”,颜色就有“红的如枫叶、白的如冰霜、黄的如麦穗”等等,菊花的形状就有像 “小姑娘的卷发,毛茸茸的小鸡,绣球”等等。我们要把过程写详细、具体,做到主次分明,详略得当,写出来的文章才能突出重点,清楚明白,才能写出游览的意义,才有教育意义。

三、略写前后,情、理、景相结合。我们在写游览记时,应把开头和结尾写得简略些。开头要交待清楚时间、地点和人物。如《游善卷洞》的开头“我的故乡江苏宜兴有一处著名的游览胜地——善卷洞”。结尾应用议论或抒情的方式写下自己的感受。如《天然动物园漫游记》的结尾写道 “‘哈哈……’我们在欢笑声中结束了这次愉快的野游。朱库米天然动物园行的乐趣是无穷的,无怪乎世界各地前去游览的人络绎不绝”。这样,写的文章有头有尾,读起来给人一个完整的印象。我们要把感情融化于景物中,写出真意。写作时,我们要倾注自己的思想感情。

还有,我们在写景的同时,或探索人生真谛,或谈论思想问题,治学精神,使读者在领略自然风景的同时,受到启迪和教育。

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篇13:雅思写作错误备考方法解析

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雅思写作考试是对考生的综合语言能力的考查,但有的考生在备考过程中,往往只是注重应试培养。那我们应该如何合理高效的备考雅思写作呢?

正如之前上面所说,许多考生备考过程中,往往会忽视了对语言知识和实际运用能力的锻炼,那么常见不可取的备考方法有哪些?考生们可以来看看自己有没有中枪

1. 话题准备,厚此薄彼:

教育类和科技类话题通常是雅思写作题库的主角,尤其是教育类话题,考试频率相对来说比较高,如剑9写作的4个话题中,就有两个是教育类。可是这就造成了一些考生在备考雅思写作时比较偏心,只是准备教育类和科技类话题,疯狂的背相关词汇,表达及素材观点,对其他话题却置之不理,这让其他话题情何以堪啊。其实,纵观近几年的雅思写作考试,社会类,环境类和媒体类等话题始终都是一线演员,拥有着和教育类及科技类话题一样比较高的出镜率,而其他话题也不断上位。因此,考生应了解近年雅思写作考试题库和出题规律,针对不同题型和话题,掌握写作方法和技巧,积累相关的词汇表达,句型结构和素材观点,确保万无一失。

另外,在准备雅思图表作文时,同学们不应该只练习曲线图,饼图,柱状图和表格的写作,还要重视流程图和地图题,熟悉表示时间次序和地理方位的相关短语及表达。尤其是地图题出现的频率在近两年的雅思考试中呈现了明显的上升态势,而其中以考察历史变迁的类型为主。所谓历史变迁,即某个地方在经历一段时间后发生了一些调整或改变,可能是地图上的建筑物从无到有,也可能是建筑的位置改变或是规模的扩大或缩小等等。需要同学们从给定的地图中挖掘相应的信息,按照时间和空间顺序,用恰当的语言有逻辑的呈现给读者。《剑九》Test 1就为我们呈现了一道变迁题。这种图表其实难度不大,但是有的童鞋在平时备考的过程中接触且准备的很少,所以在考场上根本无法动笔。事实上,如果我们在备考时,熟记表示方位的词汇和表达,仔细分析并经常练习此类题目,我们就能更好地把握这类题目的写作技巧与方法,在考场上遇到此类题目时不再迷茫。

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篇14:2024年高考记叙文写作技巧:文章如溪水

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叙事作文来源于生活,但又高于生活,小编收集了2018年高考记叙文写作技巧文章溪水,欢迎阅读。

叙事作文又称记事作文,在作文类别里因为贴近生活实际,而被是认为是较简单的一种作文体裁,对于小学生来讲,叙事作文往往又与另一个词联系较紧密---“流水帐”,叙事作文写作技巧。作为教师,我常在学生习作中发现“流水帐”这类文章,统观原因就是因为学生在写这类文章时,过于偏向“叙”、“记”,光叙事情的顺序,记录每一个细节,而忽视了叙事作文中的“思”、“情”、“议”,这些文章的枝叶,光剩下一副骨架,自然文章也就成了干枯的秃树,吸引不了人了。

叙事作文来源于生活,但又高于生活,生活只记录了事情的发生、发展、结果,是一本“帐”。陆游说:“尔果欲学诗,功夫在诗外”。这诗外的功夫即是对生活的体验,感受和认识,也就是“思”、“议”、“情”,将你们思考到的,你的观点说出来,你对这件事的感情色彩,表达在你的文章中,这样,文章才会丰满,再大的树干也需要枝叶的铺盖,才会生机盎然。

叶圣陶先生说:“生活如泉源,文章如溪水,泉源丰富而不枯竭,溪水自然活泼地流个不竭”,对学生来讲,生活的经历不算是丰富,固定的生活模式容易让学生产生公式化的记忆,叙起事来自然也就成了“流水帐”。但孩子的生活细节是丰富的,他们在日常生活中,对事物有着不同于成人的观察范围、观察视角、观察兴趣,如果将这些详细的叙述出来,作文自然也就丰富了。

作为教师,帮助学生深挖叙事过程中的“思”、“议”、“情”等方面的内容,可以起到画龙点睛的作用。

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篇15:英语作文写作的需要背诵的部分

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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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篇16:高考英语作文的专项训练:任务型写作训练水污染Waterpollution

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高考英语任务写作训练练习(一)

读写任务(满分25分)

请阅读以下的短文,然后根据提供的任务说明和写作要求, 写一篇150字左右的英语短文。

(任务说明)

1.概括短文的内容要点(该部分的字数大约60-80);

2.清楚地陈述你自己的看法;

3.提供具有一定说服力的论据或实例来支持你的观点,可以参照文中的内容,但不能抄袭文中的句子;

4.文章体裁不限,但必须结构合理,内容连贯,有条理性。

(阅读材料)

Almost everyone knows that water covers three-fourths of the earths surface. Most of it, however, is in the oceans and is too salty to drink. Also, some of it is frozen and cannot be used. In fact, less than one percent is left for the use of people, animals and plant life. All through history men have tried to build their homes near the sources of fresh water. Now fresh water is becoming scarce, but more and more is needed because of the increasing number of people in the world. Some industries also use large amounts of fresh water in the production of things such as steel, petroleum, paper and rubber and so on. Scientists estimate that the need for fresh water will have doubled by the year 2003. If they are correct, we must find new ways of saving it or producing it. Some nations have worked on the problem and are already sharing their information with others. They are trying to keep their rivers from becoming polluted. Deep wells are also being dug, and rain water is being collected in huge artificial lakes. In one way or another, they hope to provide enough water to satisfy the needs of their people.

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With the worldwide increase of population, more and more water is needed. Meanwhile,the water sources are getting polluted by human beings in one way or another. Some nations are taking measures to solve this problem. They even communicate with each other hoping to find better ways to save and produce water to meet the needs of their people.

随着世界范围内的人口增长,越来越需要更多的水。与此同时,水源被污染,人类以一种方式或另一种方式。一些国家正在采取措施来解决这个问题。他们甚至相互沟通希望能找到更好的方法来保存并生成水来满足人民的需要。

On a personal level, to solve the problem with fresh water, both the government and inpiduals should make every effort. For example, for the government, it is urgent to make detailed laws that require businesses and inpiduals to stop polluting the environment and to save water while it is not necessarily used. Besides, education should be offered to all the citizens to raise their awareness of the importance of protecting environment and saving water. As inpiduals, we need to take action to play our own part in our everyday life.

在个人层面上,用淡水来解决这个问题,政府和个人都应该尽一切努力。例如,对于政府来说,迫在眉睫的是做出详细的法律,要求企业和个人停止污染环境,节约用水,而不一定是使用它。除此之外,教育应该提供给所有的公民提高他们的意识保护环境和节约用水的重要性。作为个人,我们需要采取行动来扮演自己的角色在我们的日常生活。

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篇17:记事作文写作方法

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写作方法属于艺术表现方法(即:艺术手法和表现手法,也含表达手法(技巧),下面就是小编整理的记事作文写作方法,一起来看一下吧。

(一)衬托,分正衬和反衬,正衬就是用类似的人物(事物)正面陪衬,反衬就是从人物生存的环境或反面人物来陪衬,从而突出主要事物,强化感情,突出中心。如人教版八下的课文《藤野先生》:选段写到了“几个职员”和“本级的学生会干事” ,这对于表现本文的主要人物藤野先生来说,是否属于赘笔?为什么?

解答思路:不是赘笔,这里运用了衬托的手法。(先明确手法);写仙台医专的职员对我的优待,是为了下文写藤野先生对我的关心和帮助作正面陪衬。而写日本“爱国青年”对我的寻衅无礼,则是为了反衬藤野先生的正直无私,毫无民族偏见。(其次结合文本具体阐释),以此更加突出了藤野先生高尚的境界和我对先生的崇敬怀念(最后结合中心简述具体作用)。

(二)铺垫,就是上文为下文的主要内容做准备,打基础,是对下文的必要交代,铺垫能使行文构思更加严谨。我们可以根据人教版七上的课文《皇帝的新装》来设题:开头为什么极力描述皇帝如何喜爱新衣服?

解答思路:写皇帝喜爱新衣服,这就交代了他被两个骗子所骗,最后光着身子举行游行大典的原因,为故事的发生作铺垫(明确手法、结合文本具体阐释),使得前后照应,行文构思严谨(结合结构简述作用)。

(三)欲扬先抑,是指本要大力颂扬的对象,而落笔开始却贬抑它,批评它,这种手法不仅能突出人物形象,还能使情节错落有致。如人教版八上《阿长与山海经》:文章刻画了长妈妈这一形象,用了什么手法,具体说说有什么作用?

解答思路:运用了欲扬先抑的手法,(明确手法),先写阿长的种种不是,表达厌恶之情,这是 “抑”;当她把我渴慕已久的书摆在我面前时,我对她发生了新的敬意,这是“扬”,(结合文本具体阐释)这样不仅使情节曲折有致,更突出阿长精神的可贵。(结合中心等简述具体作用)。

(四)对比。将两个相对或相反的人物事物进行比较,从而突出某一方面特征,表达作者的情感。我们可以根据人教版八上的课文《雪》来设题:作者旨在写朔方的雪,那么前文为什么要写南方的雪?

解答思路:把江南的雪和朔方的雪进行对比(明确手法),突出朔方雪的独立、张扬、富有抗争精神(结合文本具体阐释)。也表明作者更欣赏朔方的雪(结合中心简述具体作用)。

(五)设置悬念。即在情节发展的过程中设置谜面(把事情的结论或结果放在前面写),使读者产生期盼的心理,然后在适当的时机揭开谜底的一种手法。起到吸引读者,增强生动性和曲折性的效果。如人教版七年级上册《羚羊木雕》的开头:“那只羚羊哪儿去啦?”妈妈突然问我。这样的开头有什么作用?

解题思路:一开始就用妈妈的惊慌质问来渲染出紧张的气氛,从而设置悬念,(明确手法)吸引读者的兴趣,想看看到底发生了什么。(具体作用分析)

其他的表现手法如伏笔、照应等与上面的解答思路基本一致,细细揣摩,就能以“不变应万变”。

【金题回放】

1、衬托

示例一:(2011年青海卷《雪中小卓玛》)文中写天气的寒冷尤其多次写到雪,有何用意?(2分)

示例二:(2011盐城卷《做客》)小说中的主要人物是青青,为什么还要写那群小伙伴?(3分)

解题思路:示例一用高原恶劣的环境衬托小卓玛勇敢、坚强、镇定的形象(明确手法,阐释作用),更好的突出文章的主题(结合中心分析)。示例二通过小伙伴们也想念爸爸妈妈来衬托青青,她也只是她们中的一员;更加广泛、深刻地反映主题,提醒人们关注“留守儿童”现象。

2、铺垫

示例:(2011年山东菏泽卷《苦瓜》)文章开头写母亲种花草和蔬菜,似乎与写“苦瓜”无关,可否删掉?为什么?(4分)

解题思路:不能删掉。因为写母亲种花草和蔬菜是为下文描写母亲精心为“我”种苦瓜、烧苦瓜作铺垫(明确手法),突出母亲热爱生活、富有爱心的品格(结合中心分析作用)。

3、欲扬先抑

示例:(2011年云南玉溪卷《那一声吆喝》)文章刻画卖花老人这一形象,用了什么手法?请简要说明。(4分)

解题思路:用了欲扬先抑手法(明确手法),先写卖花老人朴素平常,后写她美好的心灵(结合文本具体阐释),这样更能突出卖花老人的“伟大”。(结合中心简述具体作用)。

4、对比

示例:(2010年山东泰安语文试题《夜读岳飞》)文章第①段,作者在书房挑灯夜读,为什么还要写远处高楼上明灭不定的五彩霓虹灯以及近处泛滥新潮的流行音乐?

参考答案:用滚滚红尘中欲浪拍天的现代生活与岳飞挑灯夜读形成对比(明确手法),表现我对纵情享乐的芸芸众生的反感和不满(结合文本具体阐释),突出岳飞精神人格的高贵(结合中心简述具体作用)。

5、设置悬念

示例:(201年安徽芜湖卷《母亲的窗前》)文章开篇说“在家里,母亲最爱呆的地方就是窗前”,运用了什么表现手法,有什么作用?

解题思路:设置悬念(明确手法),能吸引读者的阅读兴趣,急于了解母亲为什么最爱呆在窗前(具体作用分析)。

【答题方法】

根据以上的解题思路,我们可以归纳出解答此类题目的基本步骤:

一、明确手法。

二、具体阐释该手法在文章中的体现。

三、再进一步,结合人物、结构、情感、主题等,简述该手法的具体作用。

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篇18:申报职称自我评价的写作方法

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专业技术职称对各位的职业来说是非常重要的,是社会对个人的一种技能的肯定,而怎么样写好专业技术职称自我评价让自己的特点更加容易被发觉的?为了让大家顺利通过专业技术职务评审,下面是专家解答专业技术职称中自我评价的写作技巧。

专业技术自我评价,应该属于总结类的文章与一般的总结类文章差不多。但也有独特的特点,是职称评审重要组成部分,是评委评价自己的重要依据,也是自己水平、能力、成果的展示,同时也是任职以来重要经验总结。总结写得好不好,影响到专家对你的评价,也会影响到自己能不能通过。所以写好专业技术总结很重要。

申报职称的自我评价如何写?

一是先简要介绍自己是基本情况,如现任职称、任职时间、毕业学校、政治面貌、现从事的专业技术工作。担任那些社会职务。

二是自己政治思想,工作态度,履行岗位职责情况。

三是详细地叙述自己任职以来从事的专业技术工作。即主持那些课题,课题进展,有那些创新,取得那些突破,通过那类鉴定,获得什么奖励,专家对此评价。

四是发表那些论文。五是获得的奖励。

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篇19:记叙文开篇技巧

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好的开头便是成功的一半。对于写作文也是如此。一篇好的开头是吸引人读下去的最好的方法。下面是小编为大家搜集整理出来的有关于记叙文开篇技巧,希望可以帮助到大家!

一、开门见山,直入主题。

即在文章的第一段开篇点题,或点明题目,或点及中心,使文章不拖泥带水,不转弯抹角,而是简洁明快、单刀直入。如朱自清的记实散文《背影》是这样开头的: “我与父亲不相见已二年余了,我最不能忘记的是他的背影。”便是开门见山:“我”思念父亲,最难忘怀他的背影,它凝聚着父子间深厚、真挚的爱。有一种浓厚的感情气氛笼罩着全文。又如朱德的《回忆我的母亲》,鲁迅的《从百草园到三味书屋》,魏巍的《我的老师》等。

二、巧设悬念,欲擒故纵。

也就是我们通常所说的卖关子。“欲说还休”,巧妙地埋下伏笔,设下悬念,能吸引读者迫不及待地要往下揭开谜底,一睹为快,故能引人入胜。如习作《“常胜将军”生死传》一文开头如下:“这常胜将军是何许人也?别忙,你且听我慢慢道来……”这一开头很新颖有味,颇能吊人胃口,然后再自然引出下文“常胜将军”生的威风,死的悲壮,并悟出一个道理“凡事都要慎重,来不得半点浮躁。”很值得借鉴。又如课文《枣核》开头的“再三托付”、“蹊跷”使人觉得如此牵挂一枣核简直不可思议,非要刨根就底,看它个水落石出不可。

三、巧引诗句,活泼流畅。

一些文质兼美的或蕴含哲理的诗句、名言、谚语等如果引得恰到好处,能为文章增色不少,使人眼前一亮、精神一振。语言亮丽优美的诗句能使文章充满诗情画意。如习作《春天如诗》开头顺手拈来一句“轻轻的我走了,正如我轻轻的来。”这是引用徐志摩的《再别康桥》中的名句,自然在引出如诗般的春天迈着轻盈的步子走来。蕴含哲理的名言名句则能使文章显得厚重、有高度。如习作《青春畅想》开头“有位哲人说过:世上有一种东西,当你拥有它的时候,可能无视它的存在,而一旦失去,才会发现它的价值。”接着便自然阐述到“青春”的话题,抒发了珍惜青春,让青春闪光的不凡的思想感情,颇能引起读者的共鸣。

四、铺陈景物,渲染气氛。

景由心造,“一切景语皆情语”。精当的景物描写能烘托人物思想感情,衬托人物性格特征,推动情节发展,使文章景中显情,情因景设,情景交融而浑然一体,便能深深打动读者的心。如课文《七根火柴》开头描写暴风雨后的草地阴沉、荒凉、寂静,展示出红军长征的艰辛,表现红军战士的坚强意志与毅力,为无名战士的英雄气概营造了悲壮气氛。又如习作《美,向我起来》记叙的是一位受伤的小女孩由悲哀、暴躁走向坚强的故事。文章这样开头:“秋深了,梧桐的叶子飘然而落,凄凉地在空中打着旋儿。天空是灰色的,空气冷冷的。偶尔飞过一只麻雀,传来的也是无奈的叫声……”极力渲染了一种伤感,映衬出下文中的主人公遭遇不幸后的落寞、悲凉。

五、娓娓道出,顺理成章。

以一种平稳的语调讲故事般地和盘托出,不显得故弄玄虚,不突兀离奇,能使读者感受到亲切、宁静。这种手法常用于记叙故事情节明显的文章中,如小小说、寓言、童话等,显得落落大方。读者便自然沿着作者的思路去感受、去思考。如莫泊桑的《我的叔叔于勒》开头道德交代故事发生的地点、菲利普一家家庭背景,娓娓叙写他们的拮据的家境,初步揭出他们爱幕虚荣的性格特征,如此,后文盼于勒──赞于勒──遇于勒──躲于勒的故事情节顺理成章,耐人寻味。又如课文《最后一课》、《皇帝的新装》、《盘古开天辟地》等。

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篇20:议论文的写作技巧及方法

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1、论点:是一篇文章的灵魂、统帅,任何一篇文章只有一个中心论点,一般可以有分论点。

论点应该鲜明、准确、概括,绝不可模棱两可,让人捉摸不定。论点的位置一般有四个:

①文题 如《改造我们的学习》《反对党八股》

②开篇 如《改造我们的学习》

③文章中间 如《拿来主义》《论积贮疏》

④结尾 如《过秦论》“仁义不施而攻守之势异也”

2、论据 用来证明论点的材料,有事实论据和理论论据两种。事实论据用事实来说话,而理论论据靠经典性取胜。论据必须围绕中心论点,这是一个最基本的要求。选用的事例与论点若不能保持一致,势必削弱说服力量。像1999年高考作文题《假如记忆可以移植》,若写议论文,就必须要弄清“记忆”与“记忆力”的区别,有的考生所举的事例就明显犯了论据与论点游离的错误,举了郭沫若倒背《红楼梦》的事例,使说服力大打折扣。

选用事实论据还要注意几点:

①论据必须具有典型性。

典型就是指论据要具有代表性。

②论据必须具有新颖性。不少学生的议论文写作离不开一些陈旧的事例,像一写失败与成功的关系,似乎就离不开爱迪生发明灯泡,一写逆境成才就非写张海迪不可,类似的内容不是说不可以用,而是说你用,他用,大家都用,谁的作文与众不同呢?

③论据的表述要精练、简要,与记叙文的表述不同,它只要求表述出与论点相关的内容即可。

3、论证:是议论文写作的重要一环,它包含的内容也较多。

①论证的基本类型:立论、驳论。立论从正面论述,驳论从反面论述。我们写议论文一般以立论为主。

②论证的基本结构层次:三段论式的结构。

提出问题(是什么)→分析问题(为什么)→解决问题(怎么办)

也即: 引论 本论 结论

常见的论证结构:

a、总分总式结构 b、对照式结构 c、层进式结构 d、并列式结构

一篇文章中段与段之间,句与句之间灵活地运用多种论证结构层次会使议论文更具活动性。

③常用的论证方法

a、例证法,用典型事例作论据来证明论点。

《简笔与繁笔》:举洋洋洒洒百万言的《水浒传》中“武松打虎”片断,景阳岗的山神庙,一个“破落”使境界荒芜之景全出。这里两个字对百万言,可谓用简到了极点。同样作品里作者写繁笔的好处时,却又举了短篇小说《社戏》中的例子,也不得不说是极为典型。

运用例证法要注意对事例叙述的方法。注意并列的几个事例的顺序,还要注意安排的详略,大家熟知的材料要略写,不熟知的要详写。

b、喻证法,增强了作品论证的形象性。

运用喻证法要注意本体、喻体的相似性。鲁迅的《拿来主义》中把文化遗产喻为一所大宅子,列举一个青年对待大宅子的态度来表达作者对文化遗产采取“拿来主义”的态度,形象、生动,给人们以很深的印象。

c、对比论证:这种方法可以增强论证的鲜明性,使读者清楚作者赞成什么,反对什么。

今年高考一则优秀作文题为《四幕剧》,其中的第二幕剧写了这样一个内容:

背景:一个小餐馆中,一张桌子,面对面坐着两个人,他们面前的盘子里各有半个甜面圈。

A:唉!天哪!只剩下半个甜面圈。(A一脸的无奈)

B:上帝!真是太好了,还有半个甜面圈。(B一脸快乐状)

文章中写的这段话对比鲜明,对待生活的悲观和乐观跃然纸上,正如该文作者说:乐观的人在被玫瑰刺伤后仍会说多美的花,悲观的人在看到刺时就会说多糟啊。我选择玫瑰的美,因此我选择前者。

d、引证法,除引用名人名言以外,我建议同学们应该多积累一些古典诗词中的名句,它一方面能加强论证的力量,另一方面,它还可以丰富文章的内容,增强议论文的文学性。

近两年高考没有考查名句,全给高中生造成一种误解,不考就不积累是不对的。

浙江一考生在2000年作文中有这样一段话:人与人如此的不同。信手翻着宋人话本《碾玉观音》,不由得这样想。话本的开头是这样的疑问,“春已归去,不知哪搭是春住处?”秦观说:春是到江南去了,“若到江南赶上春,千万和春往。“苏小妹说,春是被带走了。”燕子衔将春色去,沙窗几阵黄梅雨”。还有苏轼说、秦观说……(《—花—世界》)

我只是选取了该文的一个部分,议论文中部分名句或古典诗词曲的引用的效果就不用再说了罢。

论证方法还有引申论证、因果论证,我们也不再细说了。

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