How to teach practical writing well

Practical writing is the general name of articles used by human beings to deal with daily public and private affairs in social life. Practical writing is a widely used literary form. It is not only a tool for government agencies, organizations, enterprises and institutions to carry out official activities, but also an important means of modern social management and a link to social life. Mr. Ye Shengtao, a famous modern writer and educator, once pointed out: "College graduates don't have to be able to write novels and poems, but they must be able to write practical articles in their work and life, and they must be fluent and solid." With the deepening of reform and opening up and the rapid development of society, it is the requirement of the times to learn and write practical writing well. Then, how to make students learn to write practical writing well and truly reflect the practical value of practical writing teaching? I think the following three problems should be solved.

First, to stimulate students' interest in learning practical writing

Practical writing is a relatively boring subject. Compared with the teaching of narrative, argumentative and expository writing, the teaching and learning of practical writing is simple and boring. Therefore, how to stimulate students' interest in learning practical writing is particularly important. First of all, let students feel that practical writing is a practical style, which is widely used in daily life. For example, students should write an application for joining the Communist Youth League. Write a cover letter and a cover letter when applying for a job; To participate in social practice, you should write an investigation report. In the teaching process, we can start with students' familiar styles and fully arouse their interest in learning practical writing. Secondly, practical writing is different from other styles. Style refers to narrative, argumentative and expository writing. For a long time, in the minds of many people, narrative, argumentative and expository are the main genres of articles, while practical articles are only incidental articles for occasional study and writing. People mistakenly think that as long as they learn narrative, argumentative and expository essays well, they can naturally write practical essays. As we all know, there are essential differences between practical writing and literary style. On the one hand, the style of practical writing is distinct, that is, the format is relatively fixed. Different application languages have gradually formed their own relatively fixed formats and idioms due to long-term use, such as the format of letters. If the writing is not standardized, it is easy to make jokes, even delay the work and cause undue losses. The State Council 200 1 1 promulgated and implemented the Measures for Handling State Administrative Documents, which clearly stipulated the format requirements of existing administrative documents in China. Therefore, teaching must be effectively implemented on the basis of fully mobilizing students to learn practical writing.

Second, pay attention to teaching methods and learning methods.

Teaching method is the key to complete teaching tasks, achieve teaching objectives and improve teaching effect. Scientific teaching methods of practical writing should not only enable students to acquire knowledge in learning, but also enable students to acquire ability in practice and apply what they have learned. Unfortunately, for many years, the teaching mode of practical writing has followed the routine of "concept → format → examples → exercises → comments", which is monotonous. Therefore, according to the existing practical writing teaching experience, the author summarizes the "four-step teaching method" of overall perception → cognitive structure → feeling content → summarizing characteristics. Its biggest feature is to give full play to students' subjective initiative in the teaching process, and practice has proved that the effect is ideal. Overall perception ",that is, teachers start with guiding students to read examples and form modules with similar and confusing languages." Through overall perception, students first form an overall impression of the examples in this module. For example, "report" and "request for instructions" can be combined into one module; Make a "plan" and "summary" module; Make "Meeting Minutes" and "Meeting Minutes" into a module and so on. "Identifying structure" refers to distinguishing the items contained in the structure of each specific language in a module on the basis of overall perception, so that students can identify the structural differences of these languages. "Feel the content", that is, after understanding the structure clearly, students are required to feel the content of different languages carefully and have a correct understanding and understanding of confusing languages, so that students can further understand the essential differences between the two languages. Inductive characteristics ",that is, after the above links, the teacher induces.

Third, pay attention to practice and practice, and constantly improve writing ability.

Combine practice, write more and practice more, and improve your ability. "Practice makes perfect", and the improvement of practical writing ability is inseparable from more writing and practice. Combining practical training is an effective means to improve students' practical writing ability. Practice is an important means to help students master knowledge, form skills and develop intelligence. Exquisitely designed and highly reliable exercises are an effective extension and expansion of classroom teaching, which is of extraordinary significance to promoting students' thinking, intelligence, interest and ability. The purpose of practical writing teaching is to cultivate students' practical writing ability, which must be cultivated through practice. Only through repeated training can we improve our writing ability. In fact, writing more and practicing more in combination with reality not only enriches students' extracurricular life, but also applies what they have learned in class. Students' practical writing ability is improved, and their comprehensive quality is also improved. This not only achieves the purpose of offering this course, but also truly embodies the practical value of practical writing teaching, and also achieves the purpose of cultivating talents. To sum up, in the process of practical writing teaching in vocational education, only by solving the above three problems can we truly reflect the practical value of the course of "Applied Writing" and achieve the purpose of transmitting information, exchanging experience, guiding work and improving quality.