英语写作大赛（高本高专组）竞赛作文交流

英语写作大赛（高本高专组）竞赛作文交流

各位同学：英语写作竞赛（高本高专组）的竞赛作文+老师点评已经新鲜出炉，欢迎各位同学进入论坛---高起专/高起本课程论坛---英语写作1-4查看12月22日发布的帖子：【教师点评】高本高专组summarywritingSummarywriting是写作中一项很重要的训练项目，北外网院高本高专层次和专升本层次均有涉及。summarywriting看似简单，其实有不少技巧，本次写作竞赛投稿文章暴露了一些常见的写作问题。老师对每篇作文均做了详细点评，欢迎登录写作版块论坛参与讨论。

以下是一些技巧分享，供大家参考！

Howtowritegoodsummary

Definition

Thesummaryisabriefrestatementoftheessentialthoughtofalongercomposition.

Givethegistoftheauthor’sexactandessentialmeaning.

Asummaryshouldnotcontainanyinterpretationorcomment.

Usesofsummarywriting

• (1)improvingreadingcomprehensionrequirescarefullyreadingconcentrationofattention
• (2)goodforcompositionwriting.expressone’sthoughtclearly,concisely.
• (3)Practicalusesforscientists,businessmen,lawyersetc.

Procedures

• (1)reading
• 1)Readthepassagethroughtogetthegist.
• 2)Giveatitletoyoursummary.Topicsentenceatthebeginning/endofthepassage.
• 3)Decideimportantpoints.
• 4)takedownmainpoints-thesubject,title,andimportantdetails.
• (2)writing
• 1)length.Summarybe1/4~1/3thelengthoftheoriginal.
• 2)yourownwords,insteadofapatchworkfromtheoriginal.
• 3)followthelogicalorderoftheoriginal.
• 4)self-contained,fullyandclearlyconveythemessageoftheoriginal.
• 5)compression:
• -omitthedetails.
• -reducetheexamples.
• -simplifythedescriptions.
• -eliminateallrepetitions.
• -compresswordysentencesandchangephrasestowords.
• -Theyactedillegally.
• -usegeneralwordsinsteadofspecificwords.
• -usetheshortestpossibletransitions.Forexample,but,then,thus,yetandfor.
• -putthemainpointsofadialogueinindirectspeech.
• (3)revision
• Reviseyourdraft.
• Compareitwiththeoriginalandmakesureithasalltheimportantpoints
• itdoesn’thaveunnecessarywordsorphrases.
• thelanguageissimpleanddirect.
• ithasnomistakesinspelling,grammar,punctuation.