English Writing

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English Writing
Part One

• Made by Xu jun

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I. Some Problems You Often Meet in Your Writing
and the Way Out.

• 1. Having too few vocabularies
• 2. Do not know if the sentences are correct
• 3. Translate the sentences in a Chinese way

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The way out

• In order to write out good sentences in
  English, you must try you best to learn the
  sentences you have learned before by heart. Read
  the texts again and again, use the sentences you
  have met in your text books, do not make a
  sentence in a Chinese way.

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• 4. Do not know how to make a beginning of the
  text
• Step 1 catch the main idea
• Step 2 create outlines
• Step 3 make out the introduction
  paragraph
• Step 4 write out the topic sentence of
  each paragraph

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• My first day in school main
  idea
• Introduction paragraph 1st
  paragraph
• Topic sentence Develop
  sentence 1
• 
  Develop sentence 2
• 
  Develop sentence 3
• 
  ...............
• Paragraph 2
• Topic sentence
• 
  Develop sentence 1
• 
  Develop sentence 2
• 
  Develop sentence 3
• 
  ...............

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Headline
Introduction
Body Text
Conclusion
Ending
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• 5. While writing, unable to continue
• Learning how to write a development sentence
  will help you.
• 6. Do not know where to make another paragraph
• Learn how to connect with the paragraphs
• 7. Do not know how to end the text
• Learn how to make a concluding sentence and
  concluding paragraph
• 8. Do not know how to check the composition
• The more you go over your writing, the less
  mistakes you will have.

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II.The Key points of texts

• Word
• Sentence
• Paragraph
• composition

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p1 p2 p3 p4 ...
s1s2 s3 s4...
w1w2w3w4...
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III. The types of compositions

• 1. exposition
• 2. argumentation
• 3. narration
• 4. description

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IV. The chief methods of writing

• 1. time order
• 2. space order
• 3. definition
• 4. cause effect
• 5. comparison contrast
• 6. example illustration

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V. Notes to your writing

• 1. Use direct, simple and short sentence
• e.g.
• It is frequently her custom to come and see
  us on Sunday.
• vShe frequently comes to see us on Sunday.
• vIt is her custom to come and see us on
  Sunday.
• 2. Avoid too many pronouns
• e.g.
• Tom and Rose are classmate. He likes
  swimming, while she likes skating. One day she
  and he went out together, she talked much but he
  said no words.

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• 3. Use more active voice sentences and less
  passive voice sentences
• e.g.
• English is being learned by us. The text
  is read every day.
• vWe are learning English, and we read the
  text every day.
• 4. Try to take in the sentence patterns and
  idioms, do not use too many slang words.
• Ive walked so much today my dogs are
  really killing me.
• v Ive walked so much today that my feet are
  really hurt.

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• 5. Make use of quotations properly
• Never too old to learn, we have so much to
  learn in the future.
• 6. Avoid the short form of the words
• I dont know. (informal) vI do not know.
  (formal)
• 7. When practice writing, use double space for
  your easy correcting.
• I was much disappointed not to be able to
  went to the jazz concert on last Friday.
• vI was very disappointed not to be able to go
  to the jazz
• concert last Friday.

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VI. How to make a good sentence

• 1. Unity one idea in one sentence
• Shakespeare is perhaps the worlds greatest
  dramatist, and married when he was only eighteen.
• vOn the evening of Monday, the 15th of September,
  three days before the date of examination, Mr.
  Lee received a letter from his father.

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• 2. Emphasis
• We will never surrender.
• We will never surrender.
• We will never surrender.
• We will NEVER surrender.
• We will never, never surrender.
• Never will we surrender.
• My name is John.
• Jone is my name.

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• 3. Coherence
• We saw many dead soldiers riding across the
  battle field.
• vRiding across the battle field, we saw many
  dead soldiers.

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• 4. Use sentence patterns and idioms
• e.g. There is (are) ...
• China has a large number of beautiful places.
  
• vThere are a large number of beautiful places
  in China.

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VII. Steps for ABC writers

• Be sure to catch the topic and main idea.
• e.g. The Advantages of Travel
• Collecting the writing materials
• 1. Seeing strange and different people
• 2. Meeting people with different interests
• 3. Different food
• 4. Practicing a foreign language

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• 5. Other peoples customs
• 6. Seeing big cities like New York, London.
• 7. Seeing places read in books
• 8. Making me understand how people live
• 9. How things are made in fig factories
• 10. Beautiful scenery
• 11. Making me less narrow-minded
• 12. Gaining knowledge of geography
• 13. Gaining other knowledge

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• Make outlines
• According to the time order, space order to
  arrange the paragraphs.
• (1) Introductory paragraph
• 1. Place of interest
• 2. People and their habits
• (2) Places of interest
• 1. Seeing places read in books
• 2. Seeing big cities like New York, London.

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• 3. How things are made in big factories
• 4. Beautiful scenery
• (3) People and their habits
• 1. Seeing stranger and different people
• 2. Meeting people with different interests
• 3. Different food
• 4. Practicing a foreign language
• 5. Other peoples customs
• 6. Making me understand how people live

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• (4) Conclusion
• 1. Making me less narrow-minded
• 2. Gaining knowledge of geography
• 3. Gaining other knowledge
• Writing the body part in details.
• topic sentence development
  sentences paragraphs
  compositions
• Correcting

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Practice

• Topic Mountain climbing
• Materials
• Seeing a beautiful sunset on the top of the
  mountain.
• Singing in the beginning
• Preparing the equipment
• Planning to climb the mountain
• Deciding to go on Sunday morning

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• Reaching the top of the mountain
• Getting tired half-way
• Returning after sunset
• Rain pouring down while arriving home
• Being lucky
• Write out the outlines according to the above
  materials

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Possible answer to the practice

• Introductory paragraph --- mentioning the
  processes of climbing a mountain
• 1. Planning and preparing.
• 2. On the way to the top
• 3. Returning home
• Planning and preparing
• 1. deciding the date --- Sunday
• 2. Preparing the equipment needed

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• 3. Starting on Sunday morning
• On the way to the top
• 1. Singing in the beginning
• 2. Getting tired half-way
• 3. Reaching the top of the mountain
• 4. Seeing a beautiful sunset on the top of the
  mountain

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• Conclusion
• 1. Returning after sunset
• 2. Beginning to rain while arriving home
• 3. Being very lucky

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Good Handwriting

• Little Star
• Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
• How I wonder what you are!
• Up above the world so high,
• Like a diamond in the sky!

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End of Part One