1、章节名称Introduction To English Writing Course: What Is Writing? Is Writing a Headache?授课方式班级授课制授课时数2授课方法 和手段Direct Method, Task-based Teaching Method, Group Discussion; Chalk, PPT, Question and Answer Method.etc.教学目的及要求1. Making the students be aware of the nature of writing and the reason why they nee
2、d to study this course.2. Having the students know the important factors of English writing.教学基本内容纲要1. What is writing and why do we study this course?2. Some important factors in writing:1). Structural organization 2). Originality/creativity 3). Imagination4) Critical thinking 5).logical reasoning
3、6). World or encyclopedic knowledge7). Personality 8) grammar knowledge 9) choice of words10).style knowledge 11)mechanics 12). Cohesion and coherence13). Genre selection 14) cultural differences3. Sample paper study教学重点难点1. Making the students understand the nature and the impotance of writing.2. H
4、aving the students fully understand the factors of English writing.教学过程设计1. My thoughts on English writing:What is writing? Do you have any purposes? Do you have your own goal in learning to write? We will first exammeine different types of writing for different purposes. In our daily life, we encou
5、nter two categories of writing:2. Writing for entertainment(such as novels, stories and poems3. Writing for information(formal or expository prose, such as research papers and newspaper reports)A informal writing, such as private journals, notes to friends, and personal letttersB. formal writing: su
6、ch as letters of application, letters of inquiry, and business communication.Before aspiring to achieve fame or to pass exams, we should forst of all try to write to communicate. In real life, the major role of languange is to communicate rather than entertainment. I have therefore set communication
7、 as the target of this course.4. Some important factors in writing:1). Structural organization2). Originality/creativity3). Imagination4) Critical thinking 5).logical reasoning6). World or encyclopedic knowledge7). Personality8) grammar knowledge9) choice of words10).style knowledge11)mechanics12).
8、Cohesion and coherence13). Genre selection14) cultural differences5. Sample paper studyExplicit Ideas Make Writing Easier (2nd Version 2)By JerryI used to ask myself why I couldnt produce one beautiful composition like the others did. With all my efforts put, the only results I could get from the te
9、achers were always red-penciled corrections. Was writing really so difficult that it was already beyond me? If it was, why did I have to bother with such a hard nut?Some questions like those would often wander in my mind in the past, and I was so confused. As I was trying hard to get a way out, I ha
10、d the chance to write an application for a scholarship; then I thought of the articles of incorporation in business and the agreements that the diplomatic officials had made. None of those things had too close relationships with English writing;. Some reflections I have from this experience are like
11、 these: without writing, I couldnt get the scholarship to share the heavy economic burden that my parents had been taking for all these years; without writing correctly, a business company would very possibly face the consequence of biting the dust; and without writing well, a crucial war would be i
12、n store for two nations who maybe indeed wanted to patch the old relationship at heart but made a mistake in the an agreement. So I told myself, I couldnt give up. As English becomes an international language, it is not only a convenient tool for communicating with each other, but sometimes it could
13、 be a matter of life and death. Good writing makes you enjoy your life so freely, but a poor one writing would only get make you sad. So there was no reason to drop it away; I had to face it no matter how difficult it was before for me.Determination having been made, I began to put my heart and soul
14、 concentrating on writing with only one target that I had to, or must, write well, better, even best. But it didnt mean I could reach the expectation with only my enthusiasm, I must take some actions. First of all, I was supposed to hold a clear view about where the difficulty lied lay in my writing
15、. Grammatical rules? Words choosing Word choice or sentence structure? I paid a great deal attention on to those things, for I deeply believed that only in such a way as using some big words could my article be genuinely colorful; even if it was only flowery language, it could also make my passage s
16、eem appear to be vivid and active. So I had to choose every word so accurately that someone else may never raise find a better one. Again and again, my passage was always questioned by some comments like “whats your main ideas in this passage?” or “this sentence really confused me!” Oh, my God! I felt
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