Welcome to my class,What elements do you think are important for writing in a foreign language?,Vocabulary? Grammar? Ideas? Attitude? Practice? Form?,The more Im involved, the more Ill learn.,Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.,Suggestion,Just Write and Rewrite. Dont be afraid of making mistakes. Read and reread. Memorize. (wise sayings, proverbs, and beautiful paragraphs),Warnings,Do not let our mother tongue affect our English writing. 不要让汉语影响我们的英语写作。 Be careful and clear-sighted.,Warnings,Do not be eager for quick success and instant benefit. 不要急功近利。 Be patient and hard-working.,A Basic Course in Writing 英语写作基础教程,Instructor: Zhang Lihong Email: 541862344,教材介绍,英语写作基础教程(A Basic Course in Wring)， 主编(Chief editors)：丁往道、吴冰等， 高等教育出版社(Higher Education Press)1998年版。本书是作者在总结自已几十年丰富的英语写作教学经验，研究近年国内外英语写作教学方法的基础上推出的新作。这本书是2010年出版的第三版，全书共分8章，分别讲解了文稿格式和标点符号，选词，造句，段落，摘要，作文，应用文以及学术论文的写作的用法。,英语写作基础教程(第三版)用清晰、浅易的英语写成,宗旨是帮助学生掌握英语写作的基本知识(basic knowledge)和基本技巧(basic skills),提高英语写作水平。与同类书相比,本书突出了实用和多举范例的特点,所选范文既有英、美作家的作品,又有中国学生的习作,易于学习模仿。第三版中的练习设计更加生动活泼,针对性(pertinence)更强。,教材介绍,具体的学习内容,第一章 文稿格式和标点符号 (Manuscript Form and Punctuation) 第二章 用词(Using Proper Words) 第三章 造句 (Making Correct and Effective Sentences) 第四章 段落(Developing Paragraphs) 第五章 摘要(Summarizing) 第六章 完整的作文(Composing Essays) 第七章 应用文(Writing for Practical Purposes) 第八章 学术论文写作(Preparing Research Papers),Outline,About the Course Manuscript Form,About the Course,1. Some Requirements on This Course 2. Final Examination 3. Guiding Ideas on English writing 4. Classroom activities 5. Outside drills and examinations,1. Some Requirements on This Course,1) Attend every writing lesson; 2) Devote your efforts to meeting the requirements of this course; 3) Be active in class (Volunteers are always welcome ,2. Your final grade/marks depend on,1) Class attendance and classroom performance 2) Final exam accounts for 70%,Guiding Ideas on English writing,1) The ideas of your articles can only come from your daily accumulation of extensive reading and your thinking; 2) Good articles come from your arduous practice; 3) Your teachers role is to stimulate your interests in writing; 4).Your teachers task is to teach you some techniques on writing and design suitable writing tasks for you to practice;,5) Your teacher will not correct your compositions word by word, but judge them as a whole. 6) You can know how to write good articles not through your teachers correcting the grammar mistakes in your exercises, but through your daily practice. 7) Writing cannot be simplified to a set of rules or guideline, and people can never learn to write once and for all, because works change according to the people, purposes, and places involved.,Classroom activities,Text presentation (writing type, writing background, theme of the text, structure of the text) Text appreciation (wordings, writing techniques, rhetorical rt:rkl devices修辞手法 , etc.) Exercises (word study, paraphrasing, passage-writing, etc.),E) Outside drills and examinations,1. Written exercises (printed out, handed in, corrected by tutors) 2. Mid-term and final exams (taken in given time and graded by tutors,Chapter 1 Manuscript Form and Punctuation,Manuscript Form,Arrangement Word Division Capitalization Punctuation Correction symbols,Focus 1 Manuscript Form (P1),Arrangement 1. two centimeters at the top 2. two centimeters at the bottom 3. one and a half centimeters on the left 4. one and a half centimeters on the right,Arrangement,Arrangement,How to Write the Title of a Composition,1. General Principles of Writing the Title 1) Write the title in the middle of the first line of a page; 2) Capitalize the key words in the title (including words following hyphens in compound words); 3) Not capitalize articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but, nor, for, ), short prepositions (in, on, at, to, for), nor the to in infinitives; but if one of them is at the beginning or at the end of a title, it should be capitalized;,4) No period is used at the end of a title; (Use a question mark if the title is a direct question, but do not use one if it is an indirect question); 5) the title of a book within the topic should be underlined (italicized in printing). 6) the title of an article put between quotation marks. Note: You can capitalize each letter of the words in the title (full capitalization), or you can capitalize the initial letter of key words in the title.,Practice,Think out 3-4 titles of compositions,Can Money Buy Happiness? A Major Advantage of Advertising on Television On College Students Taking Part-Time Jobs My Idea of Becoming a Teacher in the Future My Idea on Private Cars,Task 1 P2,where i lived, and what i lived for are transgenic crops safe? well-known dramatists of the ming dynasty a day to remember approaches to teaching english as a foreign language criticisms on the ending of mark twains adventures of huckleberry finn,Answers to task 1,Wher