英语写作 课件 Essay Writing
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Essay Writing
1. General Remarks 2. The Basic Structure of an Essay 3. The Types of Writing 4. The Process of Writing an Essay 5. Evaluation of an Essay
b. What is an ideal job? As far as I’m concerned, an ideal job is the one for which you are competent in which your interest lies.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Example a. Where there is war, there is death and waste. Either side, winner or loser, is a sufferer. So we should try every means to stop war.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
1.1. Supplying historical, geographical, or other background information. This kind of introduction is often used in narration or description, e.g..
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
Example a. After the fall of troy, the Greek army set sail for home. Each of the great Greek heroes had his own ships and men, and each had many advantages before finally reaching home. Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, was the wisest of the Greek heroes. His adventures make up a story called The Odyssey. The following tales are from the story.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Conclusion Paragraph
1. emphasizing the main points of the whole essay in a summary
2. drawing a conclusion from preceding paragraphs 3. evaluating what has been done or expressing a
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.5. Presenting a special questioning reference to some word or idea in the title:
a. What is the nature of the scientific attitude, the attitude of the man who studies and applies physics, chemistry, medicine, engineering or any other branch of science?
judgment or realization 4. echoing the opening paragraph to bring an essay full
circle.
Functions of conclusion paragraphs
Conclusion Paragraph
Example a. It is not exaggerating that a Chinese student of English takes pains to get to become a good writer in English. Only through reading extensively, creatively imitating well-done writings, carefully applying writing principles while constantly practicing writing can he gradually improve his writing in English.
Introduction Paragraph
Example b. Next to air, water is the element most necessary for survival. A normal adult is 60 to 70 percent water. We can go without food for almost two months, but without water only a few day. Yet most people have no idea how much water they should drink. In fact, many live in a dehydrated state.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
Example b. Hong Kong is a flourishing city with an area of over 1000 square kilometers and a population of almost 6 million. It is the world’s most open free port and is known as the “pearl of the east”. Because it is about to return to China, it had become the focus of worldwide attention.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.2. Using an anecdote or quotation introducing the theme:
Example: I’ve lived half of my 80 odd years in China, but I was born and brought in England; and as the poet said: “Is there a man with soul so dead, / Who never to himself has said/ This is my own, my native land…” So it was a thrill to go back to the land of my birth, as I did last spring.
2. The Basic Structure of an Essay
REVIEW
Introduction Paragraph Body Paragraph Conclusion Paragraph
Introduction
Body Conclusion
Introduction Paragraph
Strategies for opening paaph
1.4. Giving a general statement or expressing an emphatic opinion to be illustrated by examples and types in the rest of the essay.
Example a. Where there is war, there is death and waste. Either side, winner or loser, is a sufferer. So we should try every means to stop war.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
Example b. Next to air, water is the element most necessary for survival. A normal adult is 60 to 70 percent water. We can go without food for almost two months, but without water only a few day. Yet most people have no idea how much water they should drink. In fact, many live in a dehydrated state.
Introduction Paragraph
1.6. Defining briefly the subject to be dealt with in an essay on a specialized topic which may be scientific, philosophical:
Example a. As its name denotes, a coat-hanger serves to hold coats, dresses, jackets, and similar garment in such a way that they hang vertically.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.3 Telling a personal experience from which the main theme develops:
Example: It must have been about two o’clock in the morning when I was woken abruptly by a loud banging noise. It was such a bitterly cold night that I did not fancy the idea of getting up, so I sat in bed and listened. Since I heard nothing more, I concluded that the sound must have come from the street. I was just pulling the bedclothes over my head to go back to sleep, when there was another loud bang. The sound was so extraordinary that this time I jumped out of bed at once.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.4. Giving a general statement or expressing an emphatic opinion to be illustrated by examples and types in the rest of the essay.
Essay Writing
1. General Remarks 2. The Basic Structure of an Essay 3. The Types of Writing 4. The Process of Writing an Essay 5. Evaluation of an Essay
b. What is an ideal job? As far as I’m concerned, an ideal job is the one for which you are competent in which your interest lies.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Example a. Where there is war, there is death and waste. Either side, winner or loser, is a sufferer. So we should try every means to stop war.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
1.1. Supplying historical, geographical, or other background information. This kind of introduction is often used in narration or description, e.g..
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
Example a. After the fall of troy, the Greek army set sail for home. Each of the great Greek heroes had his own ships and men, and each had many advantages before finally reaching home. Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, was the wisest of the Greek heroes. His adventures make up a story called The Odyssey. The following tales are from the story.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Conclusion Paragraph
1. emphasizing the main points of the whole essay in a summary
2. drawing a conclusion from preceding paragraphs 3. evaluating what has been done or expressing a
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.5. Presenting a special questioning reference to some word or idea in the title:
a. What is the nature of the scientific attitude, the attitude of the man who studies and applies physics, chemistry, medicine, engineering or any other branch of science?
judgment or realization 4. echoing the opening paragraph to bring an essay full
circle.
Functions of conclusion paragraphs
Conclusion Paragraph
Example a. It is not exaggerating that a Chinese student of English takes pains to get to become a good writer in English. Only through reading extensively, creatively imitating well-done writings, carefully applying writing principles while constantly practicing writing can he gradually improve his writing in English.
Introduction Paragraph
Example b. Next to air, water is the element most necessary for survival. A normal adult is 60 to 70 percent water. We can go without food for almost two months, but without water only a few day. Yet most people have no idea how much water they should drink. In fact, many live in a dehydrated state.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
Example b. Hong Kong is a flourishing city with an area of over 1000 square kilometers and a population of almost 6 million. It is the world’s most open free port and is known as the “pearl of the east”. Because it is about to return to China, it had become the focus of worldwide attention.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.2. Using an anecdote or quotation introducing the theme:
Example: I’ve lived half of my 80 odd years in China, but I was born and brought in England; and as the poet said: “Is there a man with soul so dead, / Who never to himself has said/ This is my own, my native land…” So it was a thrill to go back to the land of my birth, as I did last spring.
2. The Basic Structure of an Essay
REVIEW
Introduction Paragraph Body Paragraph Conclusion Paragraph
Introduction
Body Conclusion
Introduction Paragraph
Strategies for opening paaph
1.4. Giving a general statement or expressing an emphatic opinion to be illustrated by examples and types in the rest of the essay.
Example a. Where there is war, there is death and waste. Either side, winner or loser, is a sufferer. So we should try every means to stop war.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
Example b. Next to air, water is the element most necessary for survival. A normal adult is 60 to 70 percent water. We can go without food for almost two months, but without water only a few day. Yet most people have no idea how much water they should drink. In fact, many live in a dehydrated state.
Introduction Paragraph
1.6. Defining briefly the subject to be dealt with in an essay on a specialized topic which may be scientific, philosophical:
Example a. As its name denotes, a coat-hanger serves to hold coats, dresses, jackets, and similar garment in such a way that they hang vertically.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.3 Telling a personal experience from which the main theme develops:
Example: It must have been about two o’clock in the morning when I was woken abruptly by a loud banging noise. It was such a bitterly cold night that I did not fancy the idea of getting up, so I sat in bed and listened. Since I heard nothing more, I concluded that the sound must have come from the street. I was just pulling the bedclothes over my head to go back to sleep, when there was another loud bang. The sound was so extraordinary that this time I jumped out of bed at once.
Strategies for opening paragraphs
Introduction Paragraph
1.4. Giving a general statement or expressing an emphatic opinion to be illustrated by examples and types in the rest of the essay.