Lecture 1 Introduction to writing

Manuscript Form
• • • • • How to Write the Title of a Composition Capitalization Word Division Punctuation Correction symbols
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• 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 teacher’s 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.
2. Your final grade/marks depend on
• 1) Class attendance and classroom performance & your accomplishment of the assignments accounts for 30%; • 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 teacher’s role is to stimulate your interests in writing; • 4).Your teacher’s task is to teach you some techniques on writing and design suitable writing tasks for you to practice;
English Writing
Instructor: Wang Taohua
Lecture 1: Introduction to English Writing
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. Writing test forms & requirements in TEM-4 • 5. Classroom activities • 6. Outside drills and examinations
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• The writing style may be argumentative, expositive, narrative, and descriptive. In most cases, the former two styles are tested in TEM-4, esp., argumentative. The topic of a composition tested in TEM-4 is usually about college students’ life, study, and heated social problems, etc. which students are familiar with.(The Best Way to Stay Healthy <2002>; To Save Money or Not <2006>; My View on University Art Festival <2005>)
✿Writing test forms & requirements in TEM-4
• • • • Two sections of writing tested in TEM-4: Section A (Composition) (15 marks) & Section B (Note-writing) (10 marks) Section A: Composition (200 words in 35 minutes ) You’re required to write a composition of about 200 words on a certain topic implied in the given context. Generally speaking, marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar, and appropriacy. Namely, writing a composition of about 200 words according to the given title/outline/instructions/figure statistics, etc., right grammar, accurate words, fluent expressions, relevant content, rigid organization, and proper style are required.
E) Outside drills and examinations
• 1. Written exercises (printed out, handed in, corrected by tutors) • 2. Network exercises (submitted in and checked via Homework Corner on net) • 3. Mid-term and final exams (taken in given time and graded by tutors
1. Some Requirements on This Course
• 1) Attend every writing lesson; • 2) Devote your efforts to meet the requirements of this course; • 3) Be active in class (Volunteers are always welcome & will be given more); • 4) Finish assignments in time; • 5) Prepare two exercise books, one for in-class exercises; the other for afterclass exercises;
Practice
Think out 3-4 titles of compositions
Can Money Buy Happiness? My First Visit to the Summer Palace 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
• 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) Use quotation marks with quotes or titles of articles; • 6) Underline/ italicize names of books. • ❁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.
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Classroom activities
• Text presentation (writing type, writing background, theme of the text, structure of the text) • Text appreciation (wordings, writing techniques, rhetorical devices, etc.) • Exercises (word study, paraphrasing, passage-writing, etc.)
• 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 of a title, it should be capitalized;