Advanced Writing Thinking Training Course: (Advanced Writing Studies Series) - 21st Century Curriculum Textbook

Author: Ma Zhengping
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book is one of the research outcomes of the project "Reform of Teaching Content and Curriculum System for Higher Normal Education Facing the 21st Century" under the Ministry of Education. This series of textbooks consists of three volumes: "Introduction to Advanced Writing Studies," "Tutorial on Writing Thinking Training," and "Advanced Writing Training Tutorial" (Volume 1 and Volume 2). "Introduction to Advanced Writing Studies" focuses on writing theory, while "Advanced Writing Training Tutorial" (Volume 1 and Volume 2) focuses on writing training. "Tutorial on Writing Thinking Training" serves as an intermediary between basic writing principles and writing skill training.
In each chapter of the textbook on stylistic writing, the content is mainly divided into four knowledge modules:
1. Stylistic norms or stylistic thinking;
2. Analysis and imitation of stylistic writing thinking, demonstration and imitation of stylistic writing thinking operations;
3. Writing practice and after-class activities. If teaching time is sufficient, the content can be fully covered for explanation and training. If time is limited, some parts of the content can be assigned for self-study in advance, with classroom teaching focusing mainly on the second and third modules. The fourth module can also be assigned as after-class activities.
This textbook, set against the profound academic background of contemporary writing philosophy and writing aesthetics, emphasizes the revelation of principles (patterns, models) in writing thinking, writing culture, writing strategies, and writing diction, as well as the effective and operational training of writing quality and skills, aiming to truly improve students' writing proficiency. As a result, the writing theory and teaching training design of this textbook have a relatively high learning difficulty, so teachers and students using this writing teaching system should be mentally prepared.
1. This series of textbooks , in fully reflecting the cutting-edge academic achievements of contemporary writing theory and writing teaching philosophy research, constructs a brand-new discourse system for contemporary Chinese writing theory. These theories not only delve into the humanistic spirit of writing philosophy, writing aesthetics, and writing culture but also enter the scientific and operational layers of writing thinking studies and writing diction studies, getting closer to the actual state of writing behavior. In a sense, this series of writing textbooks has little to do with the writing knowledge of the various popular "Basic Writing Studies" in the 20th century; it should be truly "Advanced Writing Studies." It is precisely here that university writing studies are distinctly separated from middle school composition teaching.
2. To transform the knowledge of writing principles and patterns into real and effective writing abilities and levels, this series of textbooks designs multiple writing training programs from different perspectives in the third volume, forming a three-dimensional and systematic new writing teaching and training system. Each chapter in this volume is divided into three modules:
(1) Theoretical knowledge of stylistic norms or stylistic writing thinking;
(2) Analysis and imitation of stylistic writing thinking, demonstration and imitation of stylistic writing thinking operations, and writing training based on revising middle school compositions;
(3) Writing practice and after-class activities. This approach ensures that writing training is implemented in practice.
3. The writing knowledge and teaching of this textbook are highly specialized. Many of the stylistic examples in the writing training of this textbook are selected from articles and works already published by the authors. While these articles may not be as typical or ideal as those by some writing masters, this approach fulfills the long-standing professional expectation for writing teachers and scholars to be both skilled in writing and teaching, able to "play" (discuss) and "spin" (imitate). These authors have conducted in-depth analysis and operational demonstrations of these articles using advanced scientific writing theories, making writing teaching more specialized. This is gradually forming a professional entry system for Chinese writing teaching, ensuring that not just anyone can teach writing studies and writing courses. This is of great significance for the independent development of the writing discipline.
This series of textbooks provides a "textbook library" or "knowledge network" for contemporary writing teaching. Schools can flexibly select and combine the use of this series of textbooks based on their own. Schools that place special emphasis on students' writing abilities and allocate more class hours to writing courses can fully utilize the three volumes of this textbook for solid writing theory teaching and writing skill training. Schools that cannot allocate more class hours to writing courses can choose the second and third volumes as required courses and the first volume as an elective course, which can also basically achieve the teaching effects and goals of this textbook system.
This series of textbooks should originally have included a volume titled "Analysis of Contemporary Article Writing," but due to space constraints, it had to be omitted. When teaching writing training and conducting article analysis, teaching peers can refer to the writing analysis methods in this textbook, while the examples for analysis can be freely chosen, leaving teachers with creative space for article analysis.
The academic level of this series of textbooks strives to be no lower than the newest textbooks of other main disciplines in Chinese major courses, which sets relatively high requirements for the quality and ability of writing course teachers. We hope that through the promotion and application of the writing theory and teaching training system in this series of writing textbooks, we can reshape the academic-personality image of contemporary Chinese writing studies, writing courses, and writing teachers in the 21st century. Let writing courses and writing studies benefit the construction of contemporary human civilization and material civilization.