I. Writing Steps To write a good English composition and master certain writing skills, you should grasp the following steps:
1. Carefully examine the questions and decide the soul of the article. For propositional composition, we must carefully examine the questions, and for free composition, we must have good intentions. To have a clear theme, an article must meet four conditions: accuracy, distinctiveness, profundity and concentration. Take the essay "My Most Admired English Teacher" as an example. The theme of the article is about an English teacher I admire most, so I can't talk about the profession of teacher or my own teacher in general.
2. Draft an outline and establish the framework of the article. After reviewing the questions and making plans, you must write an outline and build the skeleton of the article. Three things should be done well in the layout of the article: arranging hierarchical paragraphs, making a good transition, and handling the beginning and end well. If there are hints in the proposition composition, we should start with the keywords of the hints, explore ideas around the keywords, and play the role of association. In the next link, we should record what we think, which can be sentences or word phrases, which can be English or Chinese. Or take "My Most Admired English Teacher" as an example. The outline can be written like this:
1) Who is my favorite English teacher?
2) My reasons
3) What can I learn from my teacher?
3. Write a topic sentence to sort out the context of the article. The paragraphs of a short essay are generally divided into leading paragraphs, theme paragraphs and ending paragraphs. The topic sentence of each paragraph is very important, which is the starting point of the author's thinking, the relevant criterion and the object of elaboration. When you see the topic sentence of the paragraph, the reader can roughly understand the content of the paragraph. Paragraph topic sentences are usually simple sentences with complete grammatical structure, general content and concise words. Usually, the topic sentence of a paragraph is placed at the beginning of the paragraph, which can make the structure of the article clearer and more convincing.
4. refer to the outline, closely follow the topic sentence, complete each paragraph, and fill in the flesh and blood of the article.
After you have the topic sentence, you need to follow the direction of the topic sentence and refer to the ideas in the outline to complete each paragraph. The introduction part should attract readers' attention and interest, paving the way for the theme part. Topic paragraphs should focus on the theme of the article and paragraph. The ways of expansion are: sequential method, example method, comparison method, contrast method, explanation method, causal method, derivation method, induction method and definition method. You can choose one or more ways according to your needs. Or take "my favorite English teacher" as an example, and the topic part can use examples, explanations, causality and so on.
In this step, we need to pay attention to three aspects:
1) to ensure the consistency of the idea of paragraph structure and the topic sentence of each paragraph in the outline. Only in this way can we ensure that the written paragraphs are not off topic and off topic.
2) It is necessary to comprehensively consider the content arrangement of each paragraph to avoid overlapping paragraphs.
3) Use conjunctions well and pay attention to the coherence between paragraphs and sentences. In order to write an article with clear hierarchy, clear thinking and coherent words, it is necessary to build a bridge between sentences and paragraphs, and conjunctions play a bridge role.
Second, tips to increase literary talent If the first and second steps are the intention of the article, the third and fourth steps are real "writing", whether the words are appropriate, whether the grammar is correct, whether the sentence pattern is changeable, and whether the literary talent is vivid or not are all related to the writer's language skills and level, but there are also some tips. The following points can be used for your reference.
1. In the whole article, avoid using only one or two sentence patterns and use various sentence patterns flexibly. Such as inverted sentences, stressed sentences, ellipsis sentences, complex sentences of subject and subordinate, comparative sentences, participle phrases, prepositional phrases, etc.
2. Use sentences with different lengths to enhance the coherence and expressiveness of sentences through clauses and sentence combinations.
3. Change the way the sentence begins, and don't blindly follow the order of subject, predicate, object and form. Adverbials can be placed at the beginning of a sentence, and participle phrases can also be used.
4. Learn to use transitional words. For example:
1) progressive: further, more, ideas, in addition.
2) turning point: however, however, after all.
Summary: finally, in short, summary
4) Emphasis: true, independent, affirmative, affirmative, about everything.
5) Comparison: Similarly, on the other hand,
5. Avoid using the same word or phrase repeatedly.
6. Pay attention to using fixed phrases, idioms and proverbs instead of some words to express meaning, so as to increase literary talent.
Third, check the last level.
1. Whether the topic is relevant is divided into three points: First, whether the content of the whole article meets the requirements of the article title; Second, whether the content of the paragraph topic sentence is consistent with the content of each paragraph prompt sentence; Third, whether the content inside the paragraph is consistent with the expression of the topic sentence in the paragraph. If you find that any level is irrelevant, you should make up as much as possible and delete those redundant or irrelevant places, but don't do "major surgery".
2. Coherence Check whether the context is coherent and whether the sentence cohesion is natural and smooth. The test criteria are mainly whether the sentence is fluent, whether conjunctions are used and whether the conjunctions used are appropriate.
3. Whether there are grammatical errors, whether the subject and predicate are consistent, whether the tense, voice and mood of verbs are used correctly, and whether the phrase collocation conforms to the habit. Let's take "my favorite English teacher" as an example. According to this title, the article must be written in the first person "I", generally describing the present tense and past examples using the past tense.
4. Whether there are mistakes in capitalization, spelling and punctuation, pay attention to the neatness of the paper. To improve the writing level, the most fundamental thing is to practice a lot, read more and write more, pay attention to the combination of exposition and intensive reading, and even recite some famous sentences and articles appropriately. In addition, you can choose some model essays, understand them carefully, imitate them more, and gradually use them freely.