英语写作手册-Part-Five.pptxVIP

Part FiveThe Whole Composition The basic aim of a writing course is to develop the ability to write whole compositions(or essays, theses, papers). Students attending this course are generally asked to write short compositions of 500 to 1,000 words on their lives, studies, experiences and views on questions they are interested in. They are seldom or never asked to write fiction, drama or poetry. In other words, their compositions will mainly be prose dealing with facts. In the following pages we shall first discuss the necessary steps in writing a composition, and then the four common types of compositions students should learn to write. I. Criteria of a Good CompositionII. Steps in Writing a CompositionIII. Three Main Parts of a CompositionIV. Types of Writing目录 1 I. Criteria of a Good Composition I. Criteria of a Good Composition Like a paragraph, a composition must have unity. All the facts and all the ideas in an essay should contribute to the presentation of its thesis or central thought. Irrelevant things, however interesting they are, should be excluded. Speakers may be allowed to digress from their main subject for a little while, but writers are not given such freedom. I. Criteria of a Good Composition A composition consists of several paragraphs, each of which has one central thought. They must be arranged in some kind of order, so that one paragraph leads naturally to another to form an organic whole. What the order should be depends on the nature of the subject, or the type of essay to be written. One possible method is to arrange the paragraphs according to the importance of the ideas they express, putting the more important after the less important, and the most important at the end of the essay, so as to bring about a climax. I. Criteria of a Good Composition Proportion is an important to an essay as it is to a painting. Main facts or ideas deserve full treatment; minor one should be given less space. The essential part of an essay i