Middle school students' innovative essays

Author: Chen Ligang
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Writing Training Series for Primary and Middle School Students. Some people ask, what is an innovative essay? Following conventional practice, we should provide a "definition," and it must be a "scientific and rigorous" one. But our answer is: as long as it expresses genuine feelings and real experiences, it is an innovative essay; as long as it presents original expression, it is an innovative essay. Essays belong to the field of information science, and information science is a combination of science and art. This understanding itself is innovative, and essays should be considered part of the art category. Art studies the sensation of a single point, emphasizing suddenness, randomness, and creativity. How can such a lively and artistically inspired thing as an innovative essay be confined by a rigid definition? Isn't the saying "one thousand readers, one thousand Hamlets" a special perspective that supports this very fact?