The head of the composition marking group will teach you to write a good composition before the exam.
Kang Chun Qing yuan
"Kangqing, Spring Garden" are He Yongkang, Luo, Pan,. There are still three days before the college entrance examination. As marking teachers, the four of us are here to have a heart-to-heart talk with the candidates and try our best to help them play normally or even beyond their normal level.
The composition score of Jiangsu college entrance examination has reached 70 points, accounting for 14.6% of the total score of all subjects in the college entrance examination (480 points). Is the most important, related to the overall success or failure. In addition, the on-site composition is different from the usual composition, which has many variables and particularities and cannot be taken lightly.
Don't expect to get "insurance points"
There is an extremely "dangerous" saying: there is no need to prepare for the college entrance examination composition. As long as you write more than 800 words, you can get an "insurance score"-about 48 points.
In this case, there is still some truth in the year of "paper marking", because hundreds of thousands of papers are piled together, and once they are marked, they sink into the "paper mountain" and cannot be checked again. Now it's "computer" marking, everything is on the "net", and spot checks and interviews are all in a few seconds. "Marking" means that two teachers mark papers face to face, and often "the latter" follows "the former"; "Computer marking" ensures that 2.5 teachers will score independently back to back, and no one can influence anyone. Many compositions may be marked by three, four or five people, which increases the reliability and accuracy of marking.
There is another trick in Jiangsu: after each teacher reads 100 essays, more than an hour later, the computer randomly selects two papers from this 100 examination paper, and then returns them to the teacher's computer for him to grade again. If the scores before and after fluctuate too much, the "general monitoring" computer will issue a warning: the marking teacher has "problems" and must be warned and standardized.
In order to eradicate the stubborn disease of "insurance points", Jiangsu composition marking points also put pressure on themselves and asked for trouble. It has set up an extremely capable "final inspection team" composed of 30 people, and all the "intermediate grade" compositions (48 to 55 marks) that have been reviewed and finalized by many people are transferred from the computer to reread, and the outstanding compositions that have been wrongly marked are re-typed and mixed in. This is a unique measure of China, which basically ended the era of "insurance points" and shattered the beautiful dream of "insurance points"! Other teachers at the marking point praised them as "rangers with boundless merits". We introduced the above situation without leaking secrets, just to emphasize that Chinese teachers and candidates in high schools should not expect to get "insurance points" and should not regard composition training in the college entrance examination as dispensable! No pains, no gains. I don't want to eat another pot of rice!
The difficulty of "examining questions" should not be reduced.
For many years, there has been a colloquial saying for marking composition: there is a college entrance examination every year, and words are off topic every year. Off-topic is to "review" the composition questions wrong and run to other places. This is a serious mistake, and its score can only be "failed"!
Since the independent proposition of Jiangsu Province, we have some understandings in this respect: reducing the difficulty of examination of college entrance examination composition, so that candidates have more time to devote to writing; Because, in the final analysis, the college entrance examination composition is "composition"! Therefore, there are the 2006 exam "People and Road" and the 2007 exam "Thinking of Heaven", which everyone can read and it is easier to examine.
Now the reason why we "put forward" the examination questions here is because there was a question of examination questions in 2008.
It should be said that the proposer of the 2008 college entrance examination composition does not advocate increasing the difficulty of the examination, and the proposed topic "Curiosity" seems simple and easy to grasp. Therefore, as soon as the Chinese exam ended on June 7, the media cheered: This essay question is easy to do! Yangzi Evening News also conducted a test, and the results showed that the curiosity of primary school students was better than that of junior high school students, junior high school students were better than senior high school students, and senior high school students were better than graduate students. So the cheers are even more earth-shattering: it is too easy for even primary school students to write good curiosity. ...
However! "However" often appears in life. Once faced with the examination paper, everyone's "optimism" suddenly vanished, because many candidates can't accurately and dialectically understand and control "curiosity"-they "digress"!
Someone wrote: Why can Mao Zedong stick to the Long March? Because he is "curious", curious that "Qian Shan spends all his time just for leisure".
Someone wrote: Su Dongpo was demoted to Huangzhou, why can he keep an open mind? Because he was "curious" about the beautiful scenery in Huangzhou, the scenery calmed his heart.
Someone wrote: Wenchuan earthquake, why did the armed police soldiers rescue the wounded from the ruins? Because of curiosity, are there any survivors buried here?
Pain, the heart of marking is sour and painful.
A suspense cast iron is in front of every marking teacher: Why do primary school students write curiosity without digressing, but senior three students digress from Wan Li?
After sample paper analysis and repeated discussion, we finally understand that the word "curious" cannot be raised to the height of "high", "deep" and "mysterious". Curiosity is only the "primary stage" of cognition and the "beginning" of scientific thinking and image thinking. It has two characteristics: first, it is "superficial"; The second is to keep moving, that is, look here and look there. Pupils' brains are not complicated, but they write "childish" and "curious", so they are related; The thinking of senior three students is quite complicated. They "boosted" and "deepened" their curiosity intentionally or unintentionally, and directly linked their "beginning" and "initial" knowledge with great scientific achievements and revolutionary practice. The result is ironic: the big hat is worn on the small head and always on the heel! Because of this, there was an "apple" harvest in the composition of the college entrance examination last year. Many candidates wrote that Newton was lying under an apple tree, and the apple fell, which produced "gravity". As we all know, if this apple hits someone else's head, it will never lead to "gravity", because Newton's "doubt" about "apple landing" is no longer a shallow "curiosity", but a scientist's thinking that includes "solving ideas" and a "scientific epiphany" in the face of natural phenomena! If other scientists ask questions, the question may be: Why are apples falling faster and faster? Do the big apple and the small apple land at the same time? It is romantic to directly link "curiosity" with "gravity", but it omits and ignores too much hard scientific research, which is a sad and ridiculous ignorance of Newton's spiritual labor!
This is a kind of "mistake" in "examining questions" last year. There is also a "mistake" that simply regards "curiosity" as a "good thing". As long as there is "curiosity", everything will succeed. As we all know, "curiosity" is a double-edged sword, which may bring "gravity" and "human development", and may also create a batch of boring and sad "spectators" criticized by Lu Xun! "Curiosity" is a "neutral word" and must not be misread as "compliment"!
In last year's excellent composition, some candidates thought quite thoroughly. They neither deified nor weakened their curiosity, but examined it dialectically and thoughtfully, and put forward a wonderful conclusion that fits the meaning of the question very well: "Curiosity is undoubtedly a heart that wants to know what they don't know, and most people at all times and in all countries have such a' heart'." "Curiosity is the first, lack of depth, milk milk gas. If people want to "deepen" the harvest of curiosity, they must "observe attentively", "the presence of the soul" and "locate their own thoughts". Otherwise, no matter how many apples are smashed, the discovery of "gravity" will not be found. Curiosity will only close the window of the atrium and cover it with dust! " "What drove Newton to explore the question' Why did the apple fall instead of fly' was his necessary ability to go down in history as a great physicist ... So gravity was thrown out, drew a beautiful solitary line and flew into space!" All of the above are the results of serious and calm "exams". They succeeded.
The purpose of analyzing the gains and losses of the composition test in Jiangsu college entrance examination in 2008 is to send a warning: even today, when we consciously reduce the difficulty of the composition test, every candidate should not be careless and take it for granted. He must tread on thin ice, carefully examine the questions and write a composition that meets the requirements of the proposition. Otherwise everything is a bubble.
How to write an impromptu argumentative essay
Although we have been "begging" senior high school Chinese teachers to seriously teach "narrative writing" and senior high school students to practice "narrative writing" attentively, surprisingly, there are very few applicants!
Why are you so "pleading"? Because, according to our decades of marking experience, it is easy to get high marks in the composition of the college entrance examination with "narrative", while "argumentative" is often difficult to show off in the forest and can only get an ordinary score! The reason is rotten, so I won't go into details here.
Be outnumbered. The heartfelt words of several people in charge of marking papers can't compare with the habitual influence of thousands of people in Qian Qian-90% of the time, I still practice sleepy "argumentative writing" that only talks about "justice", "common sense" and "truth" in high school!
Let's "admit defeat". Let's also talk about "argumentative writing". Try to make this year's Jiangsu candidates write some decent "argumentative papers" ...
As I said just now, high school students often write argumentative essays with one voice and one voice, repeating some well-known truths around propositions, lacking the impact of freshness. What do we do? It is difficult for immature high school students to put forward unique arguments and make amazing words. Then, learning some "composition" skills and finding a clever and eye-catching "title" may produce better results. It is very important for middle school students to read more books, pay more attention to reality, put themselves in their shoes and accumulate some good arguments seriously.
The year before last, Jiangsu took an examination of Missing the Sky, and we thought of a good argument "Toutou" when marking it, which was published in the newspaper in the name of "Kang Qing": During the Kaiyuan period, young Li Bai went to Beijing to see the Prime Minister, hoping to be an official and serve the country. The prime minister refused to see the nobody. Li Bai asked the doorman to send a "version" (business card) with seven big characters on it: Li Bai, fisherman at sea. The Prime Minister was curious and met him. The prime minister asked, "Sir, what is the hook and line used for fishing at sea?" Li Bai said: "I take the meniscus as the hook and Changhong as the line!" The Prime Minister asked again, "What is the bait for such a big fishing rod?" Li Bai glared at the Prime Minister and said, "If you take the unjust people in the world as bait, you will certainly catch the giant eagle that rules the world!" Panting, the Prime Minister ordered the guests to leave. -This anecdote was discovered by Professor Yu Xianhao, a research expert of Li Bai, with little knowledge and great novelty; This will lead to "thinking about the sky", "thinking about the moon" and "Changhong", and the ideal "sky" of serving the country wholeheartedly. More importantly, it will lead to the belief of "punishing evil and winning the rectification movement". Almost no need to play, you can spread the ordinary "truth" and make readers' reading psychology alive.
We take pains to introduce the above two examples to emphasize one point: under the condition that you can't express "common sense" as "new ideas", it is a "trick" for middle school students to use "header" skillfully and appropriately, so we might as well try it.
There is another problem in middle school students' argumentative writing: trying to give examples, the "reasons" are not enough, and the "examples" are together. One year when marking the college entrance examination papers, we found that a candidate gave six examples in one breath in more than 800 words! This kind of use case can't play the role of "fact demonstration", but it can only be "monkeys break corn", and one is broken and one is lost. Discussion is "analysis", which decomposes and dissects all kinds of human feelings and things. If there are too many use cases, you will be "lazy". If you say "yes" to a watermelon, you will lose it at all. If you only hold a watermelon, you can't be lazy. You must make up your mind to cut, decompose and dissect it. Therefore, I advocate that middle school students only use a case (of course, a selected case) to decompose it carefully and see its "internal structure" and "external connection". This "cutting" itself means that the "discussion" has begun.
One more thing to note: when thousands of candidates jump on an "obvious" argument, you must never follow the crowd. You'd better look at the problem from another angle. To put it bluntly, it's a bit vulgar: bald people have lice on their heads, which is obvious. Many candidates rushed up without thinking, and everyone reported this "louse" to the marking teacher: "What do you think of your old man?" We say it's obvious and boring. You said that 200,000 to 300,000 identical "lice" were caught together, and we were reluctant to part! So we advise you to change the simplest perspective, that is, look at the back of the bald man. If you can find one or two valuable "mosses" behind the bald man's head, you will have an "exclusive discovery" and you will be superior! This is not a joke, we are serious. ...
Twelve specific suggestions
First: don't "crash" the materials. The important difference between college entrance examination composition and usual composition is that hundreds of thousands of people (nearly 550 thousand in Jiangsu this year) wrote the same composition topic on the morning of June 7. If you are not careful, you will be "like-minded". You will write and I will write, and you will choose materials in an orderly manner. Think about it, when hundreds of thousands of candidates repeatedly preach the same "material" to the marking teacher, the acceptance effect can be imagined, which can only be disastrous! In 2007, when I took the exam of Missing the Sky, this marking point recommended an excellent composition of Father and Son Cutting Wheat to the whole country. Its first "talent" is that the selection of materials is unique in the country: on June 5, two days before the college entrance examination, the candidate actually cut wheat with his father in the scorching sun! Is there one in southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu? Is it available all over China? Don't! At this time, the senior three students are the "key protection objects" of the whole family. Father should cough lightly and mother should walk lightly. "Little darling, don't move, be careful of catching a cold ..." How can you cut wheat for five or six hours in the hot sun? Therefore, when we first saw this theme, the heartstrings were shocked in an instant! This candidate's successful experience is worth remembering this year.
Second: Please write more vivid "narratives" and try your best to write yourself. Don't go back to ancient times and repeat the classics. As long as the ups and downs of high school students' daily life are written out, it is possible to impress the marking teachers and strive for high marks.
Third: Don't be "implied" by the writing proposition, and unconsciously jump to the same writing goal collectively. At present, this kind of "prompt" is still indispensable due to the reasons from top to bottom. We strongly demand that this "hint" be abolished, but it will be difficult to do so in three to five years. This kind of "suggestion" has the function of "strong psychological suggestion", which leads the candidates who have painstakingly tested "Chinese knowledge" to the same place, resulting in the "crash" accident mentioned above. For example, in 2006, Jiangsu took an examination of "People and Road", and there is a passage on the topic at present. The first sentence is "some people say that there is no road on the ground, and more people will become roads." This is Lu Xun's words. Candidates will know it at a glance, so1200,000 people are attracted by this sentence. The next pen is "How does Lu Xun ... go, go, go, and the road will come out?"
How much goodwill can such a composition win? What shall we do? We advised some candidates not to look at the "tips" and only care about the topic, but all candidates claimed that they were "afraid". So we said that after reading Lu Xun's words, we immediately thought that many college entrance examination comrades would follow Lu Xun this year. We are not moved by this temptation, so we must find another way, that is, we should not write Lu Xun or Kaminooji. Even if we write Ba Jin, Mao Dun and Tolstoy, we should avoid the contents in the "tips"! There is no way, because the existence of "hint" represents a deep-rooted proposition "habit", you can't misinterpret it!
Fourth: don't play deep, play philosophy, be too subtle, "there is still half a face hidden behind her guitar for us to see", and play hide-and-seek with the marking teacher. The college entrance examination composition uses "Biluochun" less and "Erguotou" more.
Fifth: Don't write inexplicable "science fiction works".
Sixth: Write less "new stories". Because the New Story is particularly difficult to write, few people succeed.
Seventh: Don't write so-called "prose" full of jumping, non-stop segmentation and air-to-air lyricism.
Eighth: Don't write "inscription" under the title.
Ninth: don't imagine yourself in the proposition composition, but design a novel and interesting topic in the topic composition.
Tenth: Do everything possible to write the first and second paragraphs well, so that people will fall in love at first sight.
Eleventh: Writing must be clear, beautiful, standardized and clear.
/kloc-the composition at 0/2: 70 should be written in 50 to 60 minutes, and it must not be out of control: there are only 20 minutes left to write the composition! ! !
The lecture is over. I wish Jiangsu candidates in 2009 a good mood, good writing, good articles and good grades!
College of Nanjing Normal University, June 3, 2009.