Chinese Middle School Students' Good Essays - Character Discussion: Character Discussion

Author: Wang Shibin
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Writing, directly and obviously reflects a student's Chinese proficiency level, which is a matter of great concern to every Chinese language teacher, especially every student. The writing of students from famous schools can also largely reflect the high level of writing among students of the same grade in the country. Therefore, compiling outstanding writing samples from representative primary and secondary schools across the nation into the "Little Writers' Library" (Writing Excellence Selection) is indeed a highly meaningful endeavor. This series of writing excellence selections not only reflects the current level of students' Chinese proficiency and serves as a reference for Chinese language teaching but, more importantly, provides a rich and relevant writing resource for students, guiding them to quickly improve their writing skills.
This series of writing excellence selections is essentially the fruit of extensive reading and writing by students from famous schools. A quick glance at any volume reveals a dazzling array of outstanding works by peers, offering valuable insights for appreciation, reference, and imitation. These excellent writings come from both in-class and extracurricular activities. The reason why they stand out is that the authors have developed unique and distinctive personalities through their practice of extensive reading and writing. Exploring the distinctive reading and writing personalities demonstrated by these students can provide profound insights into how to write well.
The first insight is that one must read with sincerity and write with genuine emotion. The second is to pay close attention to observation and skillfully distill ideas. The third is to learn from others' language while developing one's own. This series of writing excellence selections offers many insights to readers. It is like a comprehensive mine rich in ideas, knowledge, life experiences, thinking, and language. It is the labor and wisdom crystallized by students, carefully selected and edited by teachers, and provided for students to refer to when learning to write. It is also like organizing intimate discussions among peer authors to exchange ideas on writing content and experiences. In this way, the series creates conditions for students to mine and acquire together, enabling them to improve their writing skills more effectively.
This series of writing excellence selections has compiled winning entries from national, provincial, and municipal competitions, as well as full-mark essays from college entrance exams, high school entrance exams, school exams, or special training sessions, from member schools of the National Middle School Educational Research Union over the past decade. It also includes outstanding writing samples from renowned primary schools in recent years. These are undoubtedly the essence of excellent writing from these schools over the past decade and are highly readable. In the future, we will continue to compile other series of books under the "Little Writers' Library" to provide even more and better references for Chinese language learning in primary and secondary schools.