1、,(English Writing) 張德玉 逄洋洋,英 語 寫 作,山東省高等教育特色課程英語寫作課件,1,學習交流PPT,第一章 成教英語寫作課程導航,本章重點、學習目的和相關要求,本章著重探討英語寫作的重要性，介紹主要教材及幾部輔 助教材的精髓內(nèi)容和學習要求，精心指導相關具體學習策 略、方法和技巧，通報課程考核方式等，并與學員商討有 關本課程的更加行之有效的教學方法，以期追求更為理想 的教學效果。,2,學習交流PPT,According to the Teaching Syllabus, English majors should learn to write compositions

2、concerning their daily life and commonly discussed subjects. In TEM, testees are normally asked to write both free compositions and guided ones as well. Now you are freshmen, and the long-felt TEM-4 is just on its way, therefore, learning to write English compositions step by step has already come t

3、o the agenda. With the deepening of reforms and opening to the outside world, our country has now entered a new historical period. More and more professionals with higher ability of English are needed. In order to keep up with the changing situation, you should work arduously.,Part One,Introduction,

4、3,學習交流PPT,Recently, stricter requirements have been put forward in English writing, which lay increasing emphasis on the actual use of the language. Therefore, how to help you be able to write compositions with as few errors as possible is evidently a great task confronting my teaching. Just out of

5、this consideration, now lets go through our lecture. Briefly speaking, this course will be delivered with two objectives in view: Firstly, it is mainly meant to meet your needs of preparing for the coming Grade-4 test. Secondly, it aims at providing you with a coverage of what you need the most in y

6、our actual use of the language. For example, you can learn how to write a business letter or other practical writings. From years of my teaching experience, I know clearly that the reason why quite a few students can not write pretty good compositions is that they fail to employ sentence patterns in

7、 writing and that they can not put proper words into proper places in a sentence. They do know what to write, but they do,4,學習交流PPT,not know how to make use of their words to express their ideas correctly and effectively. As a result, mistakes are often made here and there, and it is very difficult

8、for teachers to read the so- called written passages. Therefore, I will spare no efforts to give you as much basic information and guidance as possible as to the uses of words, phrases and sentences while we deal with those common techniques and strategies in paragraph and composition writing. As yo

9、u know, writing is no easy matter. It is not easy to write even in ones native language, not to mention in a foreign language. There is also no magic formula that will guarantee instant success. Therefore, writing well takes time and effort. All that you need for the first step is an active and resp

10、onsive attitude towards writing: be confident, because you are not,5,學習交流PPT,starting from scratch; but dont be over-optimistic, for the road to effective writing is long and arduous. Long and arduous as it is, I still hope that my lecture will bring to you the pleasure, the help and the confidence

11、in writing all types of articles in English.,Topics for Discussion (討論題)：,1. Why do we study English Writing course？ 2. What is the most effective way of learning the course? How would you like to be tested for the course? What do you suppose is the best writing teacher like?,6,學習交流PPT,本章重點、學習目的和要求,

12、本章著重講述英語寫作的基本格式, 包 括如何布局、抄寫體例、單詞分節(jié)、大寫 的用法、如何空格及標準書法等相關內(nèi)容。 通過對本章的學習，要求學員熟練掌握規(guī) 范的英語寫作格式。,第二章 英語寫作格式,7,學習交流PPT,Part Two,Manuscript Form,As we are learning to write, we should have a clear idea of what is good manuscript form. We should do everything writing the title, leaving margins, indenting, capita

13、lizing, and dividing words according to generally accepted rules. Whenever we write something, we should work carefully, write neatly and clearly, and try to make as few mistakes as possible. Before handing in our essay or exercise, we should proofread it once or twice, because we may need to make s

14、ome final corrections and changes. If we always work in this way, we are sure to make progress.,8,學習交流PPT,I. Arrangement,Writing in correct manuscript form is very important, because it makes it easy to read what is written and prevents misunderstanding. We should follow the general practices in wri

15、ting the title, leaving the margins, paragraphing, capitalizing, and dividing words. When we write an essay to be read by the teacher, we should write on every other line so that there will be room for corrections. It is necessary to leave a margin of about two centimeters at the top and the bottom

16、of the page, and one of a centimeter and a half on the right and left side. In an exercise book the top and bottom margins are marked; we need only to draw a vertical line to mark the left margin.,9,學習交流PPT,We cannot make the right margin straight or neat, unless we are using a computer, but we shou

17、ld never write to the very edge of the page. When the space left near the end of a line is not or barely enough for the word we are going to write, we should write the word on the next line. or divide the word if it is a long one. There must be a blank space on the right side of the page. The title

18、or topic of the essay should be placed in the middle of the first line. Every word of the title (including words following hyphens in compound words) should be capitalized except articles, short prepositions, coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but, so, yet, nor, and for) and to in infinitives. But

19、if one of these words is the first or last word of the title, it should be capitalized.,10,學習交流PPT,Topics are generally noun phrases (nouns with their modifiers), though other forms are possible. No full stop should be used at the end of a title. A question mark is needed if the topic is a direct qu

20、estion (but an indirect question is not followed by a question mark). The title of a book within the topic should be underlined (italicized in printing), and the title of an article put between quotation marks.,Below are some examples:,My Impressions of Beijing The Wall Between Where Do All the New

21、Words Come From? What Traditions Mean to the Chinese A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Different Views on Jane Eyre Interpretations of Robert Frosts Fire and Ice,11,學習交流PPT,The first line of every paragraph should be indented (started after a space of four or five letters). Arabic numerals are generally u

22、sed for paging. They can be put either in the upper right-hand corner or in the middle below the last line of every page. A line is never begun with a comma逗號, a period句號, a semicolon分號, a colon冒號, a question mark or an exclamation mark; a line never ends with the first half of a pair of brackets括號,

23、 quotation marks,引號 or parentheses. The hyphen that shows a word is divided is put at the end, not at the beginning, of a line.,12,學習交流PPT,II. Word Division,The following hints may be helpful to us in the division of words: One-syllable words such as count, health and thought cannot be divided. Word

24、s with two or more syllables can be divided according to the formation of syllables: re-peat-ed, in-sist, punc-tu-al, san-dal, de-cline, trans-la-tion. A stressed close syllable usually takes a consonant with it: ded-i-cate, grat-i-fy, la-bor-a-to-ry, fin-nish. A consonant plus -le is treated as a s

25、yllable: min-gle, peo-ple, no-ble, gig-gle. A single letter cannot be put at the end or at the beginning of a line: e-voke, heart-y. A two-letter ending should not be put at the beginning of a line: hand-ed, hard-en. Divisions that may mislead the reader should be avoided: re-ally, lay-man.,13,學習交流P

26、PT,Words with hyphens should be divided only at the hyphen: broad-minded, broken-hearted. Two-syllable words with double consonants in the middle are as a rule divided between the two consonants: strug-gle, lat-ter. Division of proper names should be avoided: Dickens, Paris. The last word of a page

27、should not be divided. It should be written on the next page. Division of words at the ends of several consecutive lines should be avoided. Division of words is not always easy. When we are not sure, we should consult a dictionary. In some dictionaries syllabication is indicated by a dot; as in the

28、examples given above, in others by a space: to geth er, sum mer.,14,學習交流PPT,III. Capitalization,Capitalized words are used mainly at three places: proper names, key words in titles, and the first words of sentences. Common words used as parts of proper names are capitalized：,Third Ring Road Northwes

29、tern University the National Library of Beijing the Middle Ages Womens Day the Yellow River,15,學習交流PPT,Words derived from proper names are usually capitalized:,Marxist Darwinism Freudian Dickensian Taoist Latinize,Some proper names or their derivatives have become common words:,mackintosh (a raincoa

30、t; after Charles Macintosh who invented it) lynch (to murder by hanging; after William Lynch who started it) quixotic (like Don Quixote, hero of the novel of the same name),All sentences, including sentence fragments treated as sentences, should begin with capital letters. In this regard, we should

31、pay special attention to the use of capital letters and punctuation in quoted words and sentences.,16,學習交流PPT,Miss Johnson said, When you write an essay, you should pay attention to both content and language. When you write an essay, she said, you should pay attention to both content and language. W

32、hen you write an essay, you should pay attention to both content and language, the teacher said. Miss Johnson advised us to pay attention to both content and language when we wrote an essay.,These examples show: (1) the subject and verb of saying before the quotation are followed by a comma; (2) a c

33、omplete sentence within quotation marks after the verb of saying begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop;,17,學習交流PPT,(3) if the quoted sentence is broken into two parts and put between two pairs of quotation marks, with the subject and verb of saying placed between them, the first par

34、t ends with a comma, the second part does not begin with a capital letter (unless the first word is a proper name), and the whole sentence ends with a full stop; (4) if the quoted sentence is put before the subject and verb of saying, it ends with a comma, and the verb of saying is followed by a ful

35、l stop; (5) if the quoted words are a phrase instead of a complete sentence, the phrase is treated as part of the whole sentence.,18,學習交流PPT,IV. Handwriting,There are two common ways of writing the letters: to form loops and to print (to write without joining the letters in imitation of printed word

36、s). Both are good, but we had better stick to one of the two styles. We should always try to write neatly so that our handwriting can be read easily. We should make capital letters bigger and higher than small letters, as different from os, ns different from us, and we should not forget to dot is an

37、d js, or cross ts. A little space (about that of one letter) should be left after a comma, and a slightly bigger space (about that of two letters) after a full stop.,19,學習交流PPT,When we want to cross out a word, we should draw a thick line through it. It is be misleading to put it between brackets, b

38、ecause that means the word is an explanatory remark. When we want to add a word, we should write it above, not below, the line of words we have written with a clear sign showing where it is to be inserted.,Exercises,I. Think of five titles and write them in the proper form. II. Divide the following

39、words according to general rules:,alive setting sister-in-law handy correctness gratitude bonus permission sociable thought. dictatorship far-reaching,20,學習交流PPT,III. Copy two or three paragraphs from a book; try to write neatly and pay attention to handwriting and manuscript form.,Topics for Discus

40、sion (討論題): 1. What is a good manuscript form? 2. What is the basic difference between English writing and Chinese writing? 3. What are those essential qualities of English writing?,21,學習交流PPT,第三章 英文寫作措詞,本章重點、學習目的和要求 本章著重講解寫作過程中如何措詞，強調(diào)措詞的重要性。主要內(nèi)容涉及英文詞匯的分類、詞匯的含義、同義詞的區(qū)別等。通過對本部分具體內(nèi)容的學習，要求學員學會用詞準確、傳神、地道

41、、生動、得體，真正做到恰當?shù)脑~用在恰當?shù)牡胤?proper words in their proper places)。,22,學習交流PPT,I. Types of Words There are tens of thousands of words in the English language, and along with social and scientific progress, new words appear frequently. The total number of English words, if it could be found out, must be sur

42、prisingly large. But we need not be worried about the impossibility of learning all of them, for only a few thousand words are used by ordinary people for ordinary purposes. These are the most useful words, or the common words, words that form the core of the English vocabulary. They are the words w

43、e must learn and remember. Apart from the common words, there are words used by people of special professions or fields, on special occasions or for special purposes. Among these are political, legal, scientific, technical, business and literary words.,Part Three Diction,23,學習交流PPT,It would be good

44、for us to know some very useful words in various fields, and many of the words related to the field we will work in or be associated with. These words are generally formal, and may be called formal and technical words. There is another type of words: those used by people who are not well educated or

45、 by people of special groups, such as people of a particular region or an age group. Some of these words may not be understandable to people in general, and may disappear after a short period of time. Some of them may continue to be used, become acceptable to all people and join the common words. Am

46、ong these words are slang, jargon, dialectal and obsolete words. They may be called nonstandard words. We need to understand them but should avoid using them, unless in special situations.,24,學習交流PPT,Here are examples of the first and second kinds of words: same speech learned destroy stiff try piec

47、e identical oration erudite annihilate rigid endeavor fragment In the first row are common words and in the second formal words. It can be seen at a glance that those common words are used in everyday conversation and in informal writing like personal letters, diaries and stories. Those in the secon

48、d row are used only in formal writing like articles, documents, research papers, manuals and in public speaking. The difference between these two types of words is very important, for their presence or absence has much to do with style. Compare:,25,學習交流PPT,I saw a ghost, and I was frightened to deat

49、h. I saw an apparition, and it reduced me to a condition of mortal terror. The first sentence is informal and colloquial, and the second is much more formal, because it contains such formal words as apparition, reduce, condition, mortal and terror. The two sentences are similar in structure and mean

50、ing, so it is the words in them that make them different in style. Of course, people seldom say anything like the second sentence in daily conversation. As we make progress in our study of English, we certainly learn more and more words. It is a good policy to find a common word of similar meaning w

51、hen we learn a formal or big word. Below are examples of nonstandard words:,26,學習交流PPT,aint (am not, is not, has not) jolly (very) cool (very good) hot (angry; fast) deal (agreement) damn (very) neat (nice) Since such words are nonstandard, we need not use them either in speech or in writing. The fo

52、llowing are two paragraphs in which different kinds of words (and different kinds of sentence structures) are used: When the trolley came it was full. I stopped on the back platform. Seats up front, the conductor said. I looked into the car. There were no seats on the left side.,27,學習交流PPT,Im not go

53、ing far, I said. Ill just stand here. Better go up front and get a seat, the conductor said. I get off pretty soon, I said. A couple of blocks. I got off before we reached the post office. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury This is mainly a conversation with a few narrative sentences. All the

54、words are simple common words. They suit the content something about daily life very well.,28,學習交流PPT,Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as the great beacon light of hope for millions of Ne

55、gro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as the joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. This paragraph is taken from Martin Luther King, Jrs famous speech delivered in 1963. He used many formal words because it was a formal speech. However, there

56、 are also many common words in it. This shows that common words are used in all kinds of writing and speech. II. Choice of Words When we write on common topics for the general audience, we may achieve accuracy and appropriateness by bearing in,29,學習交流PPT,mind the following guidelines about the choic

57、e of words: (1) Use common or informal words for general purposes; use formal or nonstandard words only on special occasions or for special purposes; (2) Use specific and concrete words when giving details; use general or abstract words when making summaries; (3) Use idiomatic expressions and words

58、in acceptable collocations; avoid combinations that are unidiomatic; (4) When there are synonyms, choose the word that expresses the meaning most exactly and that suits the content and style. .,30,學習交流PPT,We have given examples of common, formal and nonstandard words. Here are examples of general an

59、d specific words: General Specific animal tiger, horse, fox, cat, mouse, bird, butterfly, insect laugh chuckle, guffaw, giggle, roar, smile, grin, beam big huge, great, large, vast, immense, enormous, tremendous scientist physicist, chemist, biologist, astronomer, geologist, mathematician,31,學習交流PPT,Words are general or specific by comparison. Animal is general when compared with t