Gaokao Essay Thinking Training

Author: Xie Hailong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: What kind of composition guide book is the most useful? Teachers and students preparing for the college entrance exam have the right to speak. In my personal understanding, to effectively prepare for the college entrance exam composition, a good training book should both have theoretical depth and practical experience; it should be both enduring and "short, flat, and fast." Theoretical depth ensures the scientificity and sustainability of training, allowing for fewer detours; practical experience enables the training to be like a "strong medicine," delivering remarkable results. Now, the book you see here, College Entrance Exam Composition Thinking Training, is just such a composition training book. The features of this book are:
1. Grasping the Fundamentals
The author faces two difficulties: one is the difficulty of having nothing to say or nothing to write about; the other is the difficulty of having something to say but not knowing where to start. Compared to the first difficulty, the second is relatively easier to solve. The second difficulty is closely related to the relationship between thinking and language, making it very challenging to address. Most composition guides in China tend to tackle the easier problem while deliberately or unintentionally avoiding the second one. Unaware that thinking plays a central role in the generation of an essay, some guides, despite recognizing the importance of thinking training, fail to find practical training methods due to their limited understanding of composition thinking. This book takes on the challenge, using thinking training as the starting point, with both content and form in its training, effectively grasping the key to composition training.
2. Finding the Right Direction
To pass the college entrance exam, one must first pass the composition test. Composition preparation has always been the most critical part of college entrance exam Chinese preparation, the hardest of the hard. It is considered important because composition accounts for a significant portion of the total score in the Chinese exam, and it is difficult because training is challenging and results are slow. For this reason, composition training must emphasize both content and form. If the training content is disorganized and the training methods are monotonous, the results will naturally be compromised. So, what should be trained, and how should it be trained to yield quick results? This book proposes the idea of training thinking sentence patterns, such as practicing around basic sentence structures like cause-and-effect sentences, comparative sentences, analogical sentences, metaphorical sentences, repetitive sentences, connecting sentences, and situational sentences. This training not only exercises composition thinking but also improves language expression and literary flair, achieving the effect of "hitting three birds with one stone." From this perspective, the composition thinking training proposed by this book is not only the direction of composition training but also the direction of college entrance exam preparation.
3. Emphasizing Scientific Rigor
Currently, there are many composition guides on the market that focus on empty theories or methods. Some even present composition techniques as if they were eighteen kinds of weapons—ready to be used at a moment's notice. This is unrealistic and does not align with the scientific principles of thinking. True writing techniques are more evident in the process of thinking and the generation of ideas. This book does not follow this pattern or rely on so-called experience. Instead, it is based on in-depth research into writing thinking theory, absorbing the essence of writing theories from both China and the world, fully respecting the realities of middle school composition teaching, and integrating five major composition thinking models. It designs two training programs. The training programs are guided by the principles of dynamics, process-oriented training, and coaching, with language training and thinking training proceeding in parallel. The training content includes both composition thinking training and general thinking training, while the training methods encompass both verbal and non-verbal training. The entire training is grounded in academic theory, rich and substantial, with the sixth chapter on comprehensive composition thinking training design being particularly distinctive, reflecting scientific rigor, knowledge, and.