“阅读与写作”系列课程介绍、精彩摘录

1. 阅读与写作文学导论 (Introduction to Reading and Writing about Literature)

2.  良好阅读的重要性(The Role of Good Reading)

3. 写作过程(The Writing Process)

4. 常见的写作作业(Common Writing Assignments)

5. 故事写作(Writing about Stories)

6. 诗歌写作(Writing about Poems)

7. 戏剧写作(Writing about Plays)

8. 文学研究写作(Writing a Literary Research Paper)

9. 文学评论与文学理论(Literary Criticism and Literary Theory)

课程结构模式一般是：每节课由30-40多页PPT构成，老师精心备课、讲课节奏高效、注重启发诱导

是名家名句分析：词汇的运用、高级语法和句子结构，例如怎么从动词，形容词、介词和连词开始整个句子，倒装句带来的突出重点 、效果放大的分析，学习阅读技巧、表达技巧、从而写出高水平的戏剧赏析。通过分析名家名剧，学生耳濡目染掌握了优美的遣词造句。

以下为名家名句的摘录与分析：

Short sentences

• The moose is as winter a creature as just about any.(Trudy Dittmar. Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky, 33)

• The streets were calm with Sunday. (Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of My Own, 69)

• The world was newborn. (Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, 329)

Grammar as Style: Free modifiers, Branching sentences

• The stream of sound is not continuous, but is produced and interpreted (though seldom consciously) as a series of separated word-groups....It is segmented into minor syntactical units, each of which has superimposed upon it a pattern of stress and intonation. (Ian Gordon, The Movement of English Prose, 19,21)

Branching sentences

• During the slow journey from Winton, seated opposite me in the third-class compartment, wearing a shabby grey dress pinned with a large cairngorm brooch, a thin necklet of fur, and a black-winged hat which dropped over her ear, she had gazed out of the window, her head to one side, her lips moving as she maintained a silent yet emotional conversation with herself, from time to time touching the corner of her eye with her handkerchief as though removing a fly. (A.J. Cronin, The Green Years, 3)

Conjunctions and coordination

• There was a crowd of kids watching the car, and the square was hot, and the trees were green, and the flags hung on their staffs, and it was good to get out of the sun and under the shade of the arcade that runs all the way around the square. (Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises, 94)

• He made the Emperor laugh and the horse couldn't better him, so he stayed. And I stayed. And we became friends. (Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, 4)

Verb phrases

• After Inniscarra the hills gather closely, and the river laughs out loud. It dances, it prances, it rushes, it slides, calm for a moment then onward again, stream racing stream, leaping and tumbling, wild Bacchanalian, wine from the mountains, froth from the ecstasy blown through the reeds. Mile after mile, past larch woods and beech woods and fern-covered hillsides, castles, and ‘standing stones’ cresting high ground. In comes the torrent from wild Knockabrocka, bringing turf waters from Aghabullogue; down comes the water from Carriganish. (Robert Gibbings, Lovely is the Lee, 190)

Noun phrases

• Leaves long dead and brittle as old butterfly wings, an aqua candy wrapper, flecks and dust and seed-sized snips of gutter chaff all hurried in a rustling revolution under our eyes...(John Updlike. The Centaur, 130)

• Pursuit planes were traded for additional cargo ships or retained for emergency invoice duty and small-parcel services; trucks and tanks were procured from the ground forces and used for short-distance road hauling. (Joseph Heller, Catch-22,259)

• She bought the green glove silk slip and the tea-colored lace. (Katherine Anne Porter, Flowering Judas and Other Stories. 200)

Prepositions

• The procession of men and women from the street into the station and down the escalators towards the trains becomes a movement from a world above to an underworld of death. (Ralph Freedman. The Lyrical Novel, 258)

• All the way home in the taxi and in the life up to her flat on the seventh floor. Mrs. Liebig kept on talking. (Angus Wilson, A bit off the Map and Other Stories, 107)

通过写作课程训练，学生们的思考和写作能力在稳步提升着，善于口头和书面表达，绝大部分学生认为这一训练对他们之后准备写大学入学论文，以及为创造性写作构思，寻求有趣的人物和情节非常有帮助。有些学生在学校获得英文、社会学年级第一；有些写作竞赛获奖；有些学生撰写出高水平论文，进入爱荷华写作夏令营，各种水平的学生都能有较大的收益，学校英语成绩提升，最重要的是，学生学会深入思考。正如有些毕业生，临别专程看望老师时所言，不仅学到了写作技巧，而且改变和建立了他们人生观。

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