1. What kind of writing is micro-essay?
Undoubtedly, the essay question that attracts the most attention from the society among the college entrance examination questions every year is undoubtedly different from previous years. With the popularity of Weibo, In 2010, a large number of talented "college entrance examination micro-essays" appeared on the Internet. The writers gave interesting or cynical interpretations of various topics in 140 words. Type: entangled. Traditional college entrance examination essays are accused of not being "innovative" .On the Sina Weibo platform, netizens actively participated in the writing of "micro-essays". The most popular test question was "Catching the Mouse While There Are Fish to Eat" from the National Paper I. Why didn't the cat let go of the mouse? A thousand netizens have a thousand answers in their minds. A more orthodox way of thinking, such as the "micro-composition" of netizen "*** all100": "If there are fish to eat, why don't you catch mice? As you can see, the fish have already been It's on the table, but the mouse still needs to be caught. Just like you tell me that if I have food today, I don't have to work hard. Let's think about it carefully. Will the fish on the table disappear one day? Then what about catching mice? Who still has the ability? If you have the ability to catch mice, you will not starve to death." In contrast, netizen "Sleep Meow Miao"'s "micro-composition" is more open-minded. He believes that cats are satisfied with catching mice. After material life, there is a pursuit of spiritual life. "After the changes of the times, cats have discovered that fish meat is more delicious and nutritious than rat meat. There are many varieties of fish, which can satisfy the picky tastes of cats. When the material life is satisfied, spiritual life Naturally, it cannot be empty, so the mouse has become the cat’s best playmate. The mouse, cat, and cat are all members of the same family! “Various styles of exam questions are also very popular among netizens, and there is also the Jiangsu exam question “Green Life”. In the eyes of basketball fans, Here, green is another scene: "The American Men's Professional Basketball League is in progress, and this question is about predicting the championship!" Some netizens with particularly rich association skills said: "This question needs to describe the relationship between characters, and write a special character. The story of Li and Bridge is not only in line with green life, but also in line with the life of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa." Thinking about the ideal type of Beijing, the test question "Looking up to the stars and keeping feet on the ground" gave netizens more room to play. Netizen "Bee Ma Yanque" said this He wrote: "Years ago, when I was dying, I asked me: What do you want to do when you grow up? I said: Be a star. Dad: Why? Me: Being a star can make money. Dad: What do you want to do to make money? Me: Here Master: Good boy... Many years later, Master asked me in my dream: What do I do now? Me: Be a doctor. Master: Why not become a star? Me: Doctors can cure diseases. Master: Treat diseases. What? Me: Make money. Master: Good boy..." This short "micro-composition" was rated as a masterpiece by netizens. 2. What is micro-composition
Micro-composition is a new style of children’s literature, which is about a hundred words in length and is just a fragment.
Instant writing, small scale, short time, highly targeted, similar to "Weibo". Because it is short, students can immediately and freely express what they see, hear, and feel when practicing. It is conducive to stimulating children's interest, awakening childish speech, and expressing unique feelings.
The "Chinese Curriculum Standards" point out: "Writing teaching should be close to students' actual situation, so that students are easy to write and happy to express." "Easy to write and happy to express" is the fundamental solution to the problem that students are afraid of writing. A correct way out for teaching.
"Micro-composition" is to work hard on "easy to write" and "willing to express" to guide students to participate, enrich life accumulation, gain emotional experience, thereby stimulating students' interest in writing. However, for primary school students, teachers only tell them "write your own life", and students have no feelings and cannot understand it.
Teachers still need to guide students to observe and feel, gain more and more intuitive experiences, and capture fresh shots and fresh feelings in life in a timely manner. Only then can they write affectionate poems. Thoughtful and vivid writing. Therefore, I believe that micro-compositions can take the following forms that are popular among students.
1. Game "micro" composition starts a new engine of thinking. The primary school composition teaching concept believes that games are children's nature. At the primary school level, provide children's games suitable for students, allowing students to observe and feel life in a happy mood and in an interesting way, record life in a timely and free manner, enrich imagination, express emotions, and fill the spirit of childhood.
Teachers create activity situations, use small games as media and means, pay attention to the reasonable arrangement of game forms and time in design, and scientifically design teaching procedures, so that small games can exert their excitement and guidance in composition teaching. , inspiration, and auxiliary functions, students can record snippets in time as required in class to form micro-compositions. The general steps are as follows: Stress-reducing "snacks" (preparation stage) - on-site games (participation of colleagues) - bold "talking" (oral expression) - on-site free writing (written expression) - communication and evaluation (result motivation).
Since it is a micro-composition, focus directly on training points, such as: "Eagle Catching Chicken", "Tug of War", etc. are all good activities for training action description, and you can use metaphors and other rhetoric. Method, vividly describe a series of actions during the game. First, make appropriate modifications through the spoken language, convert it into written language and write it down. Then, by observing other people's expressions and actions, associate the character's inner experience at that time, and then use appropriate connectives to write down the game process in an orderly manner.
Because students are involved in the game, the game has a strong sense of liveness and personal experience, so it is interesting; because the scale is small and the time is short, it can effectively overcome the fear of writing; and because the length is short, you can write and review while writing. While revising, guidance can be distributed on aspects such as paragraph construction, expression, imagination, word choice, etc., and the standardization and freedom of speech expression can be realized more quickly. For example, there is training on writing fragments about the appearance of characters in the high-grade primary school Chinese textbooks. Teachers can create a composition game "Guess who he (she) is" with "Description of Characters' Appearance".
Specific methods: Each student carefully observes the appearance of a certain student in the class, writes a paragraph focusing on the main characteristics, and indicates who the person being described is. Then, the teacher shuffled the cards with the appearance written on them, randomly picked out one and read it aloud in class (without reading the name), and asked everyone to guess three times in a row.
If you guess correctly once, it means that the author's observation and description are very accurate. If he or she fails to guess three times, it means that the author has not grasped the characteristics, and will "punish" him or her to stand up and talk about his or her appearance characteristics.
This game cultivates students' observation skills and language expression skills. 2. Relay "micro" diary and enrich the source of writing power. Diary started from ancient humans' "tying knots to record events".
Keeping a diary has been proven through a lot of practice and is one of the effective ways to improve your writing skills. Once writing a diary becomes a child's daily habit, the diary will act like a "strict teacher" to urge the child to complete the training every day; the diary will act like a "critical friend" to encourage the child to do a good job in training.
Such silent supervision and encouragement are irreplaceable for school education and parent guidance in promoting the progress of children's composition. Mr. Ye Shengtao said: "The root of the practice lies in one's own life.
Life is like a source, and articles are like streams. The springs are abundant but not exhausted, and the streams flow naturally and lively." The accumulation of a fulfilling life is The starting point and source of students' diary writing.
"Micro diary" does not simply refer to the small number of words in each diary, but mainly from the perspective of small selection of diary materials, refined material selection, and simple content. Try to keep the time of each diary to about 15 minutes, so that it will not have a substantial impact on the academic load and students can accept it happily.
The new curriculum standards advocate independence, cooperation, and inquiry learning, and are usually used in vocabulary teaching and reading teaching. Students often write diaries, even mini diaries, and often suffer from the problem of "it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without straw", so I decided to try a "diary relay" in the class.
The so-called "relay" means that several students take turns writing in the same diary. The cooperating students are members of the usual study group. One or more people write, and then read, correct, and learn from each other. , thereby achieving the goal of simultaneous improvement. When I walked into the classroom with twelve beautiful diaries that I carefully designed, I immediately attracted the attention of the whole class.
With the colorfully patterned cover and specially laid out diary pages, looking at the children’s eyes sparkling with anticipation, I distributed the notebook to twelve study groups, and each group member wrote their name on the cover. And decorate according to personality. The children just received the diary and were very excited.
After more than a year of trying, the children’s writing interest and desire for expression have been greatly enhanced, and their writing ability has also improved. It has the following advantages.
1. Broad content and rich materials. "Relay Diary": Make the contents of students' diaries vivid and flesh-and-blood, eliminating the phenomenon of "scratching their ears and cheeks" and "biting their pens". Although they are not eloquent and have thousands of words, they are also every word, and their true feelings are revealed.
The content can be selected by students or assigned by teachers. For example, why did there suddenly only be one goldfish left in the class? Some students said that they might have placed it near the window because the air was so bad that they jumped off the building and died. But they searched all over the building and found no body of the goldfish? Some people say that the corpse should have been eaten by pigeons; others say. 3. How to write the new essay question "micro-writing" in the college entrance examination
Add "micro-writing" to add reading scenarios
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Reading: add reading scenarios , testing the mastery and application of basic Chinese knowledge in reading.
Composition: The first question is micro-writing, and the second question is composition question.
Next year’s Chinese subject will divide the 60-point essay into two questions. The first question is micro-writing, and the second question is composition question. The Beijing Municipal Education Examination Authority stated that the purpose of dividing the composition into two test questions, one large and one small, is to comprehensively test students' writing ability.
In addition, next year’s college entrance examination Chinese subject will also revamp the field of language application, add reading scenarios, and test the mastery and application of basic Chinese knowledge during reading. Strengthen content that embodies traditional Chinese culture in daily life, such as proverbs and couplets. Transform the reading of ancient poetry, adopt a multi-text comprehensive approach, and strengthen the examination of traditional culture.
"Micro-writing" originated from Weibo. Using Weibo to write micro-literary works is called micro-writing. Its literary styles include "micro novels", "micro poems", "micro stories", "smiling words", etc.
Micro writing generally refers to a type of writing style that is short and concise, generally within 140 words, including micro novels, micro stories, micro dramas and other online writing styles posted on Weibo, and also refers to college entrance examination compositions. micro-composition.
The so-called micro writing generally refers to micro literary works written on Weibo. Its styles are diverse, including "micro novels", "micro scripts", "micro poems", "micro stories", "micro stories" "Film Review" etc., but the format tends to be the same, short in length, fragmented in content, and scattered in structure. Especially those blog posts that claim to be micro-novel are regarded by many people as just a short story.
In a broad sense, micro-writing also refers to literary works with relatively short content, so it is also called micro-composition.
Micro-writing - Origin
The narrative method of micro-writing is not an invention of the Internet age. The tradition of micro-writing has existed in China since ancient times. It is just that today’s writers use words to express, The creation of artistic conception, the subtlety of thinking and many other aspects have not yet reached the height of traditional micro-writing. Tang poetry, Song lyrics, and Yuan opera are actually all micro-writing texts, including ancient notes, fables, and jokes, as well as a large number of poetic theories, lyrics theories, music theories in classical literary theory, and even couplets, aphorisms, and riddles that the masses love to hear. The shadow of micro-writing, such as "Shishuo Xinyu", "Sou Shen Ji", "Yuewei Cottage Notes", etc., are all examples of micro-writing.
Micro-writing - Features
The genres of micro-writing are different, but the short and concise, concise language, and profound ideological connotation are the most common features of these works. The word count is generally limited to 140 words. The essence of Weibo style, quotation style, and paragraph style is the same, that is, writing in concise language, which is actually more challenging for writers. The more refined it is, the more attractive it is and the easier it is to spread. For example, "It's a great pleasure to have friends come from afar" in "The Analects of Confucius". These beautiful words that have been passed down through the ages have this characteristic.
Micro-writing - punctuation and annotation style
Micro-writing "punctuation and annotation"
It is the simplest and easiest type of "micro-writing", very similar to today's People post comments in blogs. In blogs, comments are synchronized with Weibo. Posting a comment is a simple Weibo. This kind of "micro-writing" in the form of commentaries has a strong sense of improvisation. Weibo publishing microwriting can also be used in reading longer narratives. Using the "micro-writing" method in relatively long texts not only helps to understand the elements of narrative, sort out the content of the text, clarify the structure of the article, and perceive the text as a whole, it also helps to practice students' brief narration and summary of events. ability. The "micro-writing" of text selection can also be used to refine articles and experience and master some writing skills. For example, you can refine the article into a diary or a short article. Once these contents are extracted, the writing skills of the article will also come out. The "micro-writing" training here has the effect of killing two birds with one stone. Expansion and extension micro-writing often appears in the introduction before the article or in the expansion and extension after reading the article. This kind of "micro-writing" will prompt readers to enter and delve deeper into the text. The "micro-writing" in the extension can help students improve their thinking after learning.
Micro-writing - shortcomings
Lack of real connotation
Some experts believe that today’s micro-writing often focuses on humor and comedy, and is written more casually. Paying attention to the refining of words and the exploration of ideological connotations has resulted in a large number of micro-writings that tend to be superficial, rough, tasteless, and repetitive. It is more of a way to vent emotions. Many people who are devoted to micro-writing regard Weibo as a space for self-expression, a platform for emotional release, or a lubricant for boring life. Although some of the Weibo sentences are humorous and An optimistic attitude towards life, but if we really want to strictly consider it, it still lacks textual value and appreciation value. Micro-writing greatly reduces the public significance of writing activities and shows a strong tendency to entertain and talk to oneself. In micro-writing, especially the gamification and liberalization of the Internet, it even shows low-level taste. Provide opportunities and soil. 4. Micro-writing (10 points) Choose one of the following three questions and answer as required, no more than 150
③ You warm the hearts of every student with your fire-like enthusiasm, we will follow You have gone through every spring, summer, autumn and winter.
You are not an actor, but you let us follow your emotions; you are not a singer, but you can make knowledge tinkling; you are not a sculptor, but you shape our souls! Thank you teacher for caring for me, thank you teacher for leading me forward, thank you teacher for imparting knowledge to me, thank you teacher for teaching me the principles of life... Teacher, all the thanks are not enough to express my gratitude to you, I will remember your gratitude to you. My teachings are to be a useful person to society when I grow up and live up to my teacher’s expectations of me! Analysis: Compared with the overall composition, fragment composition writing has a wide range, it can be a part of the article, it can be a short essay for practicing writing, it can be a micro composition, it can be a short paragraph of a few sentences. In terms of expression, it can be narrated, discussed, explained, or described and expressed emotionally.
In short, its writing purpose is relatively single, the requirements are relatively concentrated, and the text length is usually around 200 words. However, although the paragraph is short, it is like "a sparrow may be small, but it has all the internal organs." The internal structure must still revolve around the center, and the layers must still be clear and organized, which is basically the same as the relevant stylistic requirements.
Test points: Ability to write expository, practical and literary articles. The ability level is Expressive Use E.