GeneralWriting.doc

General Writing Professor ZouXiaoling April 30, 2005 Teaching Plan for Writing Participants: Third-year Students Time: 9/2003-6/2004 General Goals or Objectives: ▼try to improve students’ writing ability through classes and writing materials ▼Students acquisition of the skills involved through writing practice ▼ Enlarge students’ horizon in writing through reading, translating and writing practice Major Task of each Semester ◆the first term: basic writing ◆the second term: applied writing I. the basic writing rules Manuscript Form: When we write we should work carefully, write neatly and clearly; proofread it once or twice. ?1. Arrangement: How do we write the title? Where, what kind of words, punctuation rules. ?2.? Word Division rules: Who’d like to list the word division rules in writing? When do it, pay attention to syllables and the form of the word. ?3.? Capitalization rules: When do we use capitalization? ?4.? Punctuation (for general rules): What kinds of Punctuations are usually used in writing? ?5.? Handwriting: 1?What should we do when we want to cross out a word? 2?What should we do when we write a word in wrong spelling: 3?What should we do when we want to add a word: 4 Write letters clearly: Diction (the choice and use of words) ?1. Words 1 levels of words: 2 meaning of words: 3 general and specific words： ?2.? Idioms: ?3. Figures of speech: The Sentence ?1.?Complete sentences and sentence fragments: ?2. Types of Sentences. According to their use, sentences can be divided into declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory ones. According to the structure, sentences can be divided into simple, compound, complex and compound-complex ones. Short and long sentences. ?3.??Effective sentences. 1 Unity: 2Coherence： 3 Conciseness: 4 Emphasis: The Paragraph ?1.? Effective paragraphs: ?(1)? Unity: ?(2)? Coherence: ?(3)? Transition: ?2.? Ways of developing paragraphs. ?1 De