Chinese High School Students' Excellent Essays - Creative and Imaginative Essays

Author: Wang Shibin
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Writing, directly and obviously reflects a student's Chinese proficiency, which is a matter of great concern to every Chinese language teacher, especially every student. The essays of students from top schools can largely reflect the high level of writing among students of the same grade in the country. Therefore, compiling outstanding essays from representative primary and secondary schools across the nation into the "Little Writers' Library" (Essays Selection) is indeed a highly meaningful endeavor. This series of selected essays 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 selected essays is essentially the fruit of top school students' extensive reading and writing. A quick glance at any volume reveals a dazzling array of works—excellent choices for students to appreciate, learn from, and emulate. These outstanding essays come from both in-class and extracurricular activities. The reason they stand out is that the authors have developed unique and distinctive personalities through their practice of reading and writing. Exploring the unique 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 refine ideas. The third is to learn from others' language while developing one's own. This series of selected essays offers many insights to readers. It is like a comprehensive mine of 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 all students to refer to when learning to write. It is also like organizing intimate discussions among peers, where they exchange ideas on essay content and writing experiences. In this way, the series creates conditions for students to mine and acquire knowledge together, enabling them to improve their writing skills more effectively.
This series selects winning essays from national, provincial, and municipal competitions, as well as full-mark essays from college entrance exams, high school entrance exams, school exams, or thematic exercises, from nearly a decade of essays submitted by members of the National Middle School Research Union. It also includes outstanding essays from renowned primary schools in recent years. These are the essence of the schools' outstanding essays over the past decade and are highly readable. In the future, we will continue to compile other series of the "Little Writers' Library" to provide even more valuable references for Chinese language learning in primary and secondary schools.