Youth Social Skills Training Tutorial

Author: Li Ping
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
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2. Rich Materials Are Essential. In many cases, authors have very limited materials and end up writing thin content, forcing themselves to fabricate words and piece together ideas, resulting in verbose articles that lack substance. Here is an example of "Little Tommy Writing 'My Dog'": The teacher assigned an essay titled "My Dog" to the students, requiring at least 150 words. Little Tommy thought for a long time and then began to write: "I have a dog. I call it Bob. I love my dog. It is all black except for a little white on its nose." Tommy stopped and counted the words: 22. He scratched his head and thought for a while longer, then continued: "Every day, I take Bob to the park for a walk, but when it rains, we can't go." He counted again, only 24 words in total, adding up to 45. "I often bathe Bob. He loves bathing, and I love bathing him too. We both enjoy it." He counted again: 67. Tommy scratched his head again, looked at the ceiling, then at the blackboard, sighed, and forced himself to write: "Bob loves sugar, so I often give him sugar. But sometimes we don't have sugar, so I can't give it to him." He paused for a long time, then suddenly had a good idea. He smiled happily and quickly wrote: "When I call Bob over, I say 'Bob.' If he doesn't come, I say 'Bob, Bob, Bob.' If he still doesn't come, I shout 'Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob!' " Tommy counted the words: 149. He then added one more "Bob" and smiled satisfiedly. Although Tommy couldn't think of anything to write, he had to force himself to (fabricate words) to fulfill the teacher's requirement, resulting in a pile of nonsense. In actual work, such situations of fabricating words are not uncommon. Especially among some leaders, who frequently attend various meetings and are invited to give "guidance." Due to their unfamiliarity with the industry or lack of preparation for the speech, they end up fabricating words, leading to verbose speeches that the audience finds unbearable. It is reported that during a tobacco work conference attended by over 100 people in a county, a regional leader came to the county for business and was immediately invited to the stage to give "important guidance." This leader was not shy and spoke for ten minutes before realizing the audience's discomfort and abruptly stopping to ask a county leader beside him, "What kind of meeting are you holding?" The leader, who didn't even understand what the meeting was about, ended up talking nonsense. After learning that it was a tobacco work conference, although he was not in charge of this sector and was unfamiliar with the relevant situation, he still rambled on for another ten minutes (when, in reality, two minutes would have been sufficient).
3. "Intention Before Pen." Think more. Think thoroughly. In many cases, articles are not concise or verbose because they lack "intention before pen," failing to think deeply about the subject. Before writing, the purpose of the article, the materials to be used, and the structure to be arranged should all be fully considered, but instead, they rush to write, as Mr. Zhu Guangqian said: "Pick up a sheet of paper and start writing without stopping. They..."