葛传椝英语写作-葛传椝 - (EPUB全文下载)

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目　录CONTENTSPREFACECHAPTER I　INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER II　MECHANICS OF COMPOSITIONCHAPTER III　LEARNING TO WRITECHAPTER IV　WRITING CORRECTLYCHAPTER V　WRITING CORRECTLY (CONTINUED) CHAPTER VI　WRITING WELLCHAPTER VII　PARAGRAPHSCHAPTER VIII　FORMS OF COMPOSITION
PREFACEThe present volume is a revised edition of my A Textbook of English Composition first published in 1941. The revising has been done in accordance with the same strongly held beliefs as those that I acted upon in writing the original work. These beliefs are as follows:1. Such a book ought never to lose sight of the fact that it is intended for Chinese students, who have their special difficulties and therefore need special advice and warning. Since they have not been brought up in English-speaking families and since they study English chiefly as something written rather than spoken, they are ignorant of a great many everyday expressions that are only too common on the lips of those whose mother tongue is English. On the other hand, they are quite safe from a great many faults in diction and construction that most English and American students of composition have to take care to unlearn before they can hope to write respectable English.2. Such a book ought to aim at the art of writing English for practical purposes instead of at authorship. The object of the average student of English composition, whatever his nationality, is to learn to express himself in written English, not to learn to become a professional author.3. Such a book ought not to confine itself to the treatment of school compositions. While most students may never wish to write professionally, it does not follow that all that they will ever have to do in the way of English composition is to write short essays on given subjects, or what is called in American schools "themes".4. Such a book ought not to content itself with imparting a knowledge of the art of writing English. Principles and rules are of little use until they are applied.5. Such a book ought to give such principles and rules; only as are based upon the actual practice of good authors. Some of those found in nearly every popular manual of composition serve no definite purposes and therefore prove to be only so many handicaps in the path of the writer of English, who has enough to take care of without the interference of those unnecessary "technical" restrictions.6. Such a book ought to teach present-day English only. Living as they do at the present day, students of composition ............

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