内容简介
本套教材根据北京外国语大学英语学院多年来写作教学的经验和研究成果编写而成。教材遵循通过思维训练来学习写作的全新理念,打破了英语写作教学中纯粹学习语言和结构的传统模式,具有如下突出特点:
将创新思维策略与写前构思技巧结合,同时也将批判思维训练渗透到写作阶段,并重点在议论文中运用,为学习者挖掘写作题材、培养和开发创新能力、提高批判思维水平提供一个全新的体验空间。
采用在实践中学习的教学理念。教学内容的编排遵循由浅入深、精讲多练的原则;课堂练习、课外作业围绕教学的目的和技能而设计。
编者博客提供适量影视片段、电视公益和商业广告等多媒体材料作为练习的补充,学习者能从日常生活的可视侧面中感受创新思维和批判思维在写作学习中的重要性及实践意义。
目录
Syllabus
Part 1 Creative Thinking
Creative Thinking and Prewriting: An Introduction
Unit 1 Whatls Creative Thinking ?
Unit 2 Creative Strategies (Ⅰ)
Ⅰ Brainstorming
Ⅱ Means-EndsAnalysis
Ⅲ Left-Brain and Right-Brain
Ⅳ Utilizing Different Senses
Unit 3 Characteristics ofCreative Thinking
Ⅰ Lateral Thinking vs. Vertical Thinking
Ⅱ A Questioning Attitude
Ⅲ Associative Powers
Ⅳ Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality
Unit 4 Creative Strategies (Ⅱ)
Ⅰ Changing the Entry Point
Ⅱ The Reversal Method
Ⅲ Track Switching
Unit 5 PerceptuaIBlocks to Creativity
Ⅰ Stereotyping
Ⅱ SelfImposedLimits
Ⅲ Saturation
Unit 6 Creative Strategies (Ⅲ)
Ⅰ Checklist for New Ideas
Ⅱ AttributeListing
Ⅲ Exposure and Random Word Stimulation
Part 2 Prewriting
Ⅰ What Prewriting Is Not
Ⅱ What Prewriting Is
Ⅲ Prewriting Techniques
Appendix Ⅰ
Appendix Ⅱ
Key to Exercises and Homework
References