1. Different purposes
Diary is a daily training to improve students' writing level, while composition is a display of writing achievements, diary is a process and composition is an end.
2. Different formats
There are four main types of primary and secondary school students' compositions: narrative, expository and argumentative. Its format is generally title, content and ending, while the format of diary is to write the date, week, weather, etc. in front of each diary, and there is no need for title, so the requirements for format are relatively loose.
3, the content is different
The content of the composition has strict rules, and it needs to be written according to the theme and content required by the composition, while the diary is more flexible. As long as you record what you see, hear and think every day, it can be one theme or multiple themes, or even your own nagging without a theme, the structure is loose.
In short, whether writing a composition or keeping a diary, we should have a good attitude, pay attention to the format, highlight the key points of the article and prevent it from being written into a running account.
Extended information:
Diaries can be divided into life diaries, work diaries, observation diaries and student diaries, and can also be divided into mood diaries and natural diaries. Diary keeps a record of every day's wonderful time, some are happy and some are sad. The writing level is different, so is the diary quality. For example, Lei Feng's diary will appear in textbooks.
composition is a narrative method that expresses a theme through words after people's thinking and language organization. Composition is divided into primary school composition, middle school composition and college composition (paper). Composition genres include: narrative, expository, practical and argumentative. About the six elements of writing, the general view is: time, place, people, the cause, process and result of things.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Composition
Baidu Encyclopedia-Diary 2. How to write a good composition for primary school students in grade three
For children who just know how to write and learn to look at pictures and write, how can they write a fluent composition? Through this national training and my own educational experience, as well as the opinions of other teachers, I summarize some suggestions on how to write a good composition for the third grade of primary school: First, pay attention to interest writing. "Interest is the best teacher". I want to change "I want to write" to "I want to write". This can motivate children to write by giving high marks to their compositions written by teachers, or reading better compositions in class. Mobilize students' subjective initiative. Second, pay attention to the accumulation of writing. The accumulation of primary school students' language mainly comes from reading teaching, which permeates composition guidance. Develop the habit of letting children write down excellent sentences by taking notes and notes while reading, which means that we must have something to say when writing. As the saying goes, "If you are familiar with 3 Tang poems, you can recite them even if you can't write them", "Reading will break ten thousand volumes. So we must read a lot of extra-curricular books, preferably 3 minutes a day, such as Andersen's Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, 1, Why, etc. Third, we must really write. When writing a composition, we must tell the truth, and we must not say big words or lies. If we are sincere, we can tell the truth and tell the truth, which is both a problem of composition and a problem of being a man. Therefore, we must be good at observing people and things in life. Fourth, practice writing frequently. Writing is a skill, and the formation of skills depends on training. To write a good composition, we must write down the good sentences or fragments we think and hear immediately, and then organize them into articles. As the saying goes, "A good memory is worse than a bad pen" makes writing a habit by letting students keep a diary. In short, writing teaching should reflect happy writing, bold writing and writing. 3. A complete diary of primary school students with 2 words and 3 articles
At noon today, I saw my mother was very tired at work and my father was too busy washing curtains.
I am alone, so I want to help my parents. What can I do? It's noon, so I'll cook. I sliced the sausage first, added salt, vinegar, oil and pepper, and mixed cold dishes.
Today, my mother bought dumplings, so I'll cook them. Boil the water first, and then put the dumplings into the pot when the water starts to boil. At first, the white and fat dumplings seem to be asleep and sink to the bottom of the pot. After a while, they seem to wake up and float up. Mom said that they are cooked when they float up.
I put it in a bowl and called my parents to eat. They all praised me for being able to cook when I grew up. I'm so happy to hear that! After eating, I also washed the dishes. Mom and Dad said that the dishes were the cleanest today. 4. How do primary school students write their weekly diary? Is it a composition or a diary < P > First, there is nothing wrong with it < P > Children's thoughts are often the most active and unexpected. After writing a few weekly diaries in a proper way, some children began to behave badly. Occasionally, when they feel that there is a lack of writing materials, they will secretly change other people's compositions to make up for them; Sometimes, when I am in the mood, I will make up a "crooked poem" in my weekly diary; Some will be naughty but carefully draw a flower on the corner of Zhou Ji. For these, the teacher's initial reaction may be angry, but from another perspective, are these not the embryonic forms of creation? In my comments, I first affirmed the "innovative" spirit of these weekly diaries, and at the same time put forward the requirements: if you see good articles, you can extract them in the weekly diaries, but you must add the reasons and ideas for extracting them and simply evaluate the benefits of the articles; As long as the content is healthy, you can also try to write a diary in poetic style; As for drawing, just copy a good ancient poem in Zhou Ji, and then "justify" it with a picture. Later, I will take the initiative to guide students to try some newer writing styles. Nowadays, students often come into contact with mobile phone short messages, so I propose that we can imitate the writing of "short message style" in the weekly diary to achieve the purpose of being concise, rhyming and expressive. Some children occasionally use the computer at home to make friends and chat online. I also suggest that we can try "chat style" in the weekly diary, and write down the content of the chat, from which we can learn how to chat with people politely, appropriately and safely.
With the opening of the weekly diary and the diversification of genres, children have tasted the pleasure of writing freely. They begin to regard the weekly diary as a means of relaxation in life and another kind of happiness, from which they can experience success and feel satisfaction. They also glow with more wisdom and creativity. Some children keep track of an event for several days in the weekly diary, and add "Listen to the next episode" at the end of each weekly diary to create the effect of a series. Some pursue wisdom and humor in language, which makes the writing closer to colloquialism. The reform in the form of weekly diary makes children realize that there is more happiness in life.
Second, it is better to be simple and true
For primary school students, weekly diary is the initial stage of writing. At this stage, it is more important to form good habits of observation, thinking and writing, and learn to express one's feelings truly and honestly. In a weekly diary with spring as the theme, I specially selected two compositions and recommended them to the whole class. One of the students wrote in his weekly diary, "Since the day of school, I have been waiting for the school bus downstairs every day. Suddenly, one day, I found that the flowers on the balcony opposite the upstairs have grown green leaves, and some have already blossomed. I think Miss Chun has quietly arrived in the world. " Another student wrote in his weekly diary, "When spring comes, there are fewer fallen leaves and more new leaves in the school trees, so it is easier for us to clean the campus. It's warmer, and I can wear less clothes. I became a big man in winter, and now I'm not that heavy. " The most valuable thing in these two weekly diaries is the obvious truth, and observing through your own eyes and thinking with your own mind. Compared with using a lot of space and flowery words to describe the spring that everyone has seen, these two weekly diaries will have more vitality.
I will pay special attention to this kind of true expression when I find it in the students' weekly diary and praise it in time. For example, there are also two diaries for observing dogs. There is a weekly diary about the dog's appearance and the dog's nose. There is such a sentence: "I touched its nose with my hand and it was wet"; Another article describes the dog's fear when it meets a big dog. "The dog's tail stands up quickly, like a stick, with its waist bent and its claws on tiptoe." Other students wrote in their diaries their curiosity and questions about the taste and origin of salt. These are all the parts that I am very happy to see when I wholesale the weekly diary, and they are also the parts that I look forward to and will be gratified. I have developed the habit of observing, exploring and thinking since I was a child, and I have developed the habit of being loyal to my inner feelings and learning the habit of true expression, which is not only beneficial to the accumulation and training of future compositions, but also to the study of other disciplines and, in general, to students' life.
Third, orientation is still very important
Since you can write anything, you can write whatever you want, and you emphasize truth, what will be the situation of the reaction in the students' weekly diary? Students will feel relaxed, their interest in weekly diary will be greatly improved, and they will get rid of the tendency of having nothing to say or being false, big and empty to a certain extent, and they will be more open-minded, but they will also be easy to be unconstrained and unrestrained. So, what "wow", "dizzy", "886" and other informal network languages and chat languages all appear in students' diaries; Some will take pains to use games depicting violence in their weekly diaries; Some will vent their dissatisfaction with their parents' arrangements for housework in the weekly diary; Some students will show gloating thoughts about the conflicts between classmates in the class, or complain and blame others blindly. There are even some students who express the negative thoughts of youth in their weekly diaries, such as "What's good about people?"? When I was a child, I had to study. Those who love reading are of course good, and those who don't love reading are happy only on weekends. In middle age, I have to work and support my family, and I have no leisure at all. Old people can no longer move, stay at home all day, and are afraid of' returning home' (death) one day. Alas-". I take these phenomena in the students' weekly diary as expected. If teachers are too sensitive to these things, the first reaction is to suppress and criticize them, which may make students feel even more at a loss. I feel two meanings from it: first, I think students should have some pleasant elements in writing, which will increase their interest in weekly diary and further eliminate their resistance to writing. Secondly, since these things really exist in students' life and psychology, it is much better to express them in words and present them in front of teachers than to hide them in the deep heart. From another angle, we can regard these vivid things as a good opportunity to educate students' moral character. 5. What's the difference between a diary and a composition?
In the writing of specific content, it is written for yourself. For example, it is called a composition, and a diary has its own format. It also has a distinctive feature, so we should pay attention to highlighting key points, and the structure and expression suitable for the theme.
Of course, only a diary is to record what we see, hear and think every day, or to express our thoughts on a certain issue. You can talk-record your own experience.
There are four main types of primary and secondary school students' compositions, which are very flexible.
Diaries mainly record what happened in a day or changes in thoughts.
Diaries are written in specific writing, weeks and letters, which means that the date should be written in front of each diary for future reference, that is, it can also be multiple topics, or even self-nagging without themes. There is a fixed theme: each applied style has its own unique format. Therefore, it can be said: narrative writing. Composition is a general term, and it is mainly necessary to grasp three items. Among them, there is not much difference between loose structure and argumentative writing, that is, it should be related to the date indicated in the diary, and the date and condolence letter should be written. First, we should pay attention to the format, and we can speak freely wherever we think.
Applied writing has. Avoid writing a running account, or recording something that happened today, or understanding of life. Diary is different from general narration and weather, for example, recording something that happened today can be a theme.
Writing is different and explanatory, and it can be narrative-recording what you saw and heard today. As a diary for primary and secondary school students, the commonly used practical articles mainly include short and pithy, weather and so on. Letters are in the form of letters, which means that students learn to write articles.
Similarly, diaries, etc., the writing is rigorous, and the speech is a proposal.
In addition, argumentative papers are more casual, or they think of some experiences today. For example, there are many words. The scope of practical writing is very wide. 6. Can diaries be written in the same way as compositions?
Not quite the same
Many people regard keeping diaries every day as a way to improve their writing level (I also made a detailed introduction in the blog post "How to make children write a good composition"), which is actually quite good, but if you don't pay attention to it, you will easily step into a misunderstanding.
Let's take a look at the four diaries written by this child:
Their Chinese teacher asked every student to write four diaries during the National Day holiday, so he wrote four very "unique" diaries:
The first one, he posted the train ticket to Nanjing in his diary, and marked a line under the train ticket: Today I am with my father and mother.
in the second article, he posted a text introducing the scenery of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing in his diary, and wrote at the end: I played Xuanwu Lake all day today, and my legs were sore!
in the third article, he posted a ticket to Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in his diary, and also recorded a line: I have no impression except tired.
article 4: he posted a return train ticket in his diary and wrote another sentence: finally, he can have a good sleep.
There is no doubt that this child must be criticized by the Chinese teacher and punished for rewriting.
In fact, here is a classic case of confusing diary with composition.
These four articles are basically qualified if they are only used as diaries, but they are obviously not qualified if they are used as compositions or writing. Because the requirement for keeping a diary is very simple, the minimum requirement is a memorandum. If you can record what you saw, heard, felt and thought that day, it is also very fragmentary, and generally it will not be strung into a composition with only one central idea, so keeping a diary and writing a composition should be treated differently.
At the beginning, many teachers instruct students to write diaries, and they simply tell them to write whatever they think. However, because students can't screen the content and discover what is the highlight of writing, they don't know what they should write at all, so some children think of taking a shit and urinating, so they write without taboo. Some children can't help but record what happened all day, from getting up at seven o'clock in the morning, brushing their teeth, washing their faces and eating to going to bed at night.