How to write prose

I. Understanding of Essays In newspapers and periodicals, we often see some short articles with lace, the length of which is less than 1000 words. The content covers ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and the form is either narrative or discussion. The technique is rich and colorful, the language is humorous, and the literary talent is both. We usually call these essays essays, or miscellaneous notes, essays, notes, random feelings, miscellaneous feelings and so on. Essay is a kind of prose, which is shorter and more free than ordinary essays. Writing papers is mostly for publication, while writing papers is often for accumulating information and taking notes. It doesn't have to be written neatly on the manuscript paper, but many of them are written in notebooks. Of course, if something is well written and can be made public, it can also be slightly processed and published. So prose is also a form of notes before publication. Essay is a convenient, free and easy-to-learn form that people of all ages and cultural levels can master. Especially in the fields of theory, politics, education, journalism, literature and art, it is not only the need of career and business improvement, but also the need of writing. When you reach a certain level, these essays can be published, assembled and published, so that you will leave your life's struggle footprint. It can be seen that it is very meaningful to study and insist on writing. Second, the general characteristics of essays generally have the following four characteristics: the extensiveness of material selection. What to write in the paper. It is entirely up to the author to decide whether it can be ancient in time or foreign in geography. In content, it can be military, historical, philosophical and political. It can also be a marginal subject with three religions and nine streams, five elements and eight merits. Generally speaking, the author's selection of materials should be based on his own reality and combined with his own business and hobbies, so as to be easy to control and choose at will and not form an ideological burden. Of course, comrades with a wide range of knowledge can dabble in topics other than professional knowledge and hobbies. Even so, there is still a relative concentration on the whole, and there is no connection between the two. Various forms. Essays are the most free and unconstrained style, and it is precisely because of freedom that they are diverse, changeable and eclectic. It can be praised positively and exposed negatively; You can beat about the bush and be cynical; You can catch a little bit to plant; You can point out the country and talk about national politics; You can express your thoughts and talk about your thoughts; Can say it, laugh and scold; Be able to comment on the discussion and put forward new ideas; You can ask questions through analysis. In short, don't pull away from writing articles, don't be bound by rules and regulations, and the more natural and casual the better. It is readable. The so-called readability means knowledge and interest. Things should be fresh, the narrative should be humorous, and the language should be popular, vivid and vivid. Don't pretend to be profound, pursue rough and obscure. Short and pithy. Essays generally do not exceed 1000 words, and can be as short as several hundred words and dozens of crosses. The miscellaneous notes in Search of Ji Shen are generally not long, like the thirteen volumes of Woodpecker with Insect Feather become a butterfly, with only eight words. The notes of an essay can have a head without a tail, a head without a tail and a cross section, and the discussion can only write down the main points in general, without being greedy for perfection. Thirdly, the types, contents and forms of essays are diverse. Due to the diversity of contents and forms, it is difficult to generalize the types of essays. Here are just some common forms. For beginners' reference 1. Attention. You can remember a story you have heard and heard from beginning to end, or you can just remember a fragment of a story. Ancient miscellaneous notes, such as Gan Bao's Sou Shen Ji, belong to this category. 2. discuss it. In fact, it is a short essay with strong pertinence, angular, argumentative and combative. For example, Lu Xun's Literature and Sweating, Habit and Reform, and On the Collapse of the Leifeng Pagoda all focus on discussion. 3. Tell me about it. That is, there are narrative and discussion, and narrative and discussion alternate. Modern prose often uses this technique. 4. Lyric. That is, write down your occasional true feelings, generally have insightful epigrams, and avoid moaning without illness. Example: Lu Xun's "Roses Without Flowers II" section 8. 5. satirical sketches. Like a humorous cartoon, it draws a vivid image with a simple pen. Example: One of the Collection of Pinellia ternata by Lu Xun. 6. A few humorous, popular and profound doggerels are also good prose forms. Generally speaking, it's good to be smooth without rhyme or meter. For example, Lu Xun's Song of Good Things. 7. Commemorative text. The death of relatives and friends can be commemorated by words, and the feelings of missing can be integrated into memories, written as essays, narratives, discussions and emotional expressions. Lu Xun's In Memory of Liu Hezhen, In Memory of Forgetting and In Memory of Liu Bannong all belong to this category. There are also many kinds, such as reading notes, critical works, fables, jokes and a few words. As long as you are careful, you can bring forth the old and create more prose categories. Fourth, problems that should be paid attention to in writing should be avoided. Miscellaneous, it is the characteristic of essays. However, essays are a mixture of genres, with a wide range of subjects, rich use of materials and changeable expressions. But as far as each essay is concerned, the theme should be focused and clear, and Wan Li should not digress, making the theme vague and unintelligible. The composition should be written as an article, with key points, sides and clear themes. In this way, over time, we can improve our ideological understanding and writing ability. Quit grass. Some people think that a paper is just written casually, which is wrong. Although essays are notebooks, they are different from personal experiences and notes. It is an article database, which can be written separately. Like Lu Xun's letters, notes, essays, manuscripts, etc. Every article is carefully done and never hasty. Therefore, each article can be published separately. If we ignore it, or pile up materials, we will not choose; Or the viewpoint lacks refinement and is full of contradictions; Or misspelled words, the arts and sciences are unreasonable; Or the handwriting is like a dragon and phoenix dance, which is hard for mortals to argue. It will not only bring trouble to their later use of these words, but also bring a lot of inconvenience to people who study themselves in the future. Therefore, it is better to be creative and write every composition carefully, even if it is a few words, and take it seriously. Try to quit. The so-called hard, mainly refers to the dull, big shelf. Writing a paper is most afraid of shelves. Bookshelves are frames, not programs. Essays are a kind of "free body", which should be diverse in form, free in style, and the most taboo is false affectation, too heavy in form and too much in preaching. The ancients said, "Don't follow the ancient law, but be crazy about it" and "Being complacent in an article is expensive". In terms of ideological content, there is a mode of "five words into the topic" (mostly critical articles), which always puts a target, two labels, three sticks and four fingers, which makes people unwilling to read; There is also a "three-stage" model, which is always one allusion, two arguments and three calls, which is very boring. This tendency should be avoided, especially in thesis writing. If you want to write a good composition, you should pay attention to the following points in Kung Fu outside the Text: First, read more books. "Reading is like breaking thousands of volumes, and writing is like a god." If you don't study hard, you can't write a good composition without cooking rice. Read widely and pay attention to tackling key problems. And you should remember while reading and accumulate more materials. The second is perseverance. Writing a paper is like keeping a diary. Only by persisting constantly and accumulating over time can we constantly improve our thinking and writing level. Third, we should always sum up. That is, I often have a "self-appreciation" and "self-review" of my composition, from which I can find the advantages, experiences and lessons that can be carried forward.