Introduction Questions 英语写作 课件.ppt

COLLEGE ENGLISH WRITING by Feng Lei of the Department of Journalism Communication “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.” Lincoln Quote Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler The following are necessary: Introduction Part Three Diction Part Four Sentence writing Part Five Paragraph writing Part Six Essay writing Introduction Questions Why we write. Why writing is important. Three ways to size up the situation Four kinds of writing process activities Sentence game An automatic reason of writer: we have to write if we expect to pass the course. Making sentences with such expressions: Write a letter to apply for a summer job. Write some kind statement for a scholarship application. Write a projected budget for the next fiscal year. Do you have some kind of reason or reasons for writing? Give examples. Identify major reasons that people write: Write to express Write to explain or inform Write to analyze Write to persuade Why writing is important. Writing influences the way people think Writing contributes to the way we learn Writing promotes success in college and on the job Writing fosters personal development Writing connects us to the world Writing influences the way people think Writing encourage us to be organized, logical, even creative in our thinking. Writing urges us to ask questions, to look critically at what others have to say as well as what we think. The grammatical and textual conventions of writing impose a certain kind of order on our thinking: Quotes Writing keeps me from believing everything I read. Gloria Steinem Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the sa