Exam Essay Coaching. Junior High School Edition

Author: Gao Shizeng
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book possesses strong scientific rigor, purposefulness, demonstrative value, knowledge, and operational feasibility in training, guiding students to learn writing, master writing, refine writing, and excel in writing in an accessible manner. Therefore, it is suitable for reference, reading, and training use by a broad range of teachers and students. Each section of this book is divided into the following four components:
1. Pre-examination Writing Guidance: Specificizes the writing requirements outlined in the junior high school Chinese teaching syllabus, providing tutoring on writing knowledge that junior high school graduates should know and master. Thus, this book is not only suitable for junior high school graduates but also serves as an independent writing guide for all junior high school students as a reference for writing essays.
2. Pre-examination Writing Ability Training: Writing cannot be like a street performer's act—only talk, no practice. With knowledge, excellent model essays, and experience in elevating average writing to excellence, each lesson in this book proposes a certain number of practice exercises. These exercises are not only highly operational but also highly practical. Especially to meet the actual needs of teachers and students, reference answers and model essays are provided and uniformly appended at the end of the book, a feature rarely seen in other writing guides.
3. Pre-examination Writing Model Essays with Annotations: Offers a carefully selected number of outstanding essays from past junior high school graduation exams across the country, both in quality and substance, accompanied by annotations. These essays reflect the rich and diverse lives of middle school students from multiple perspectives, making them highly readable and suitable for junior high school graduates to appreciate, imitate, and draw inspiration from before the exam.
4. Path to Improving Average Writing: This is something lacking in most writing guides over the years and is something that junior high school graduates and their parents most desire. Each lesson selects a past junior high school graduation exam essay of average quality for annotation, pointing out both the strengths to be developed and the weaknesses and areas for improvement. This approach is highly targeted, enabling most students to clarify their goals for improvement. Through comparison, they can understand what constitutes truly excellent writing and continuously enhance their writing skills and interest in writing through the practice of revising essays.