英语写作教案1--序言、规则、从句子到段落.ppt

Objectives of the Course 1. a better understanding of “writing” A. difficult to learn and teach “Great writers are not taught. It is the gift , experience and knowledge.” B. requires skills in ????? word expressions/sentences ???? format /rhetorical patterns 2. rules of “Writing” (theories) 3. practices How to Learn It Well? ????? Read a lot (learn to recite) ? Write a lot ? ??? Experience and think a lot Teaching Plan Basic Rules on English Writing Capitalization the first letter of a sentence Note: quotations He said, “My trip to Mount Tai was interesting.” “My trip to Mount Tai,” he said, “was interesting.” 2. key words in a title An Analysis on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (介词：between) On Study 3. proper names Mount Tai Peking University President Obama the People’s Republic of China Punctuations a period (.) at the end of a complete sentence do not use a comma to join two coordinate clauses (use a comma + conjunction or a semicolon) question mark exclamation mark quotation marks He said, “My trip to Mount Tai was interesting.” “My trip to Mount Tai,” he said, “was interesting.” “My trip to Mount Tai was interesting,” he said. parenthesis A PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) delegation is to visit China dash A break in thought He might do many things for the people – if he was elected. (hyphen - living-room) b. an unfinished statement “My idea is --” “You want to quit, don’t you?” c. show a parenthetical element His old problems – asthma and high blood pressure – are still worrying him. slash a. fraction: 1/3 b. poetry: “Be through my lips to unawakened earth/ The trumpet of a prophecy! Oh, wind,/ If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” -- Percy Bysshe Shelley italics and underlining titles for books, periodical, newspapers… He reads the People’s Daily every day. Wuthering Heights is one of his favorite novels. b. for emphasis Wha