Writing articles is difficult, and writing articles in English is even harder. The reason is very simple. If Chinese people want to write articles in English, they must first have a certain level of language proficiency, that is, they must master the most basic vocabulary and grammar in English, they must have the ability to write smooth and coherent English sentences, and they must also understand a little Background knowledge of British and American culture and certain rhetorical skills. All these elements are basic prerequisites for writing in English.

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1. Suggestions and Countermeasures

1) Systematically learn theoretical knowledge about writing

Practice without theoretical guidance is blind practice. Since writing is a science, it has its own theories and laws. Learning to write requires a certain knowledge of writing theory. Of course, learning writing theory does not mean that you can write articles, but mastering the basic essentials of writing and consciously understanding and exploring the rules of writing will reduce detours and unnecessary blindness.

2) Combining reading and writing

Writing is an activity that uses learned knowledge to recreate. The learning of knowledge is a necessary condition for improving writing ability. The main source of knowledge is reading. Therefore, writing and reading are inseparable. Combining reading and writing and learning from model essays can greatly help improve writing skills. How many of us have carefully studied the material selection, background knowledge, wording, structural design, style, paragraph development, word choice and sentence construction of the article when learning to read the text intensively? The benefits of reading to writing are manifold. First of all, reading a lot of books can broaden your mind and activate your literary thoughts. Secondly, reading can absorb and enrich writing materials and make them sound. At the same time, reading works written by foreigners is an effective way to master the rules of writing and learn writing methods. This is why masters often warn us to read more novels in English abbreviations. Finally, reading can greatly enrich our vocabulary. We can learn words and understand words from a higher perspective, thereby improving our ability to use language. If students are interested, you may wish to read some books on linguistics. You will definitely feel that language learning is actually a very interesting thing, rather than a pain and burden.

3) Keep practicing writing

Quality comes from quantity. Without enough writing practice, it is impossible to develop the ability to write good articles. Write more and practice more, and gradually improve in practice. If you learn to swim, you will never learn it if you don't practice in the water; similarly, if you learn to write articles, you won't be able to write articles well if you don't practice writing.

2. Several practical ways to improve writing skills

1) Pay attention to intensive reading and extensive reading.

Writing is a practical process of applying language knowledge, which involves a lot of knowledge points, such as vocabulary, grammar, discourse, etc. From the perspective of language teaching, writing is an "output" behavior. Without a sufficient amount of "input", "output" is difficult. When reading an article, the most basic elements are words, phrases and sentences. Therefore, you should excerpt some essential things and read them frequently. This will not only expand your vocabulary, but also transform it into usable words, laying the foundation for future imitation. If you do not have the accumulation of corpus, you will not be able to talk about it at all. imitate.

2) Do some corpus construction work yourself.

Choose exciting words and phrases from the text for imitation and sentence making exercises, such as: count for much, put in hours doing something, go unnoticed, concentrate on, aim to, adapt to, intellectual curiosity, the market- driven economy, There is never any question that…, shift from…to, What if…, on the bottom rung of the ladder, the prospect of a new life, treasure friendship, stand a chance of, not necessarily, be the case, fan the sparks of hope, etc., and strive to draw inferences from one instance and express the same idea using different sentence patterns, words, etc., so as to strengthen one's language control ability.

3) Select and recite some wonderful sentences or paragraphs.

This can not only cultivate your sense of English language, understand the development of English composition, but also imitate sentence patterns for practice. Over time, we will be able to understand the way British and American people think. Only by complying with this thinking logic can the articles written be close to the habits of English expression.

4) Learn to write an outline

Outlines are a method often used when writing training enters the paragraph stage. Writing an outline can, on the one hand, check your understanding of the topic, and on the other hand, express your formed thoughts in words.

5) Changes in sentence patterns

Inverted sentences, emphasized sentences, participles, clauses, etc. in grammar can all be used in writing. Through the cross-use of different sentence patterns, more sentences can be added The sense of hierarchy makes the sentences flexible, concise and varied, which not only achieves complete meaning but also makes the article full of highlights. In class, I always like to teach students how to use core words in writing and how to change various sentence patterns. I found that students actually have very strong imitation abilities, but they lack enough and correct guidance, and not many people are willing to do it. Similar to the accumulation of original materials, there is a famous saying in English: "No pains, no gains." How can there be rewards if you don't pay?