After reading Writing is a Craft , what new insights did you have about writing?

Reading books is very important for writing

How to choose a book and read a book or read ** these two parts. Regarding the selection of books, the book body mentions a key word "other people's book list", yes, we often don't tear it up carefully at all, what books we want to read, what books are suitable for reading, and always follow other people's book lists when we feel that we should need to read, or a list of "100 books that should be read for teaching" on the Internet to buy books, and we also have a sense of accomplishment to advertise how many "high" books we have bought. In fact, these books, like a prescription for all diseases, may not be suitable for you who need **, or in other words, because some of the medicines in the medicine list are really unpalatable, so that long-term prevention will eventually be shelved.

Pick the books that suit you and the books you like, so you can choose the style of writing that suits you

A mature reader can weigh the weight of the book by flipping through the book. But at the beginning of the reading, we can choose by the author, the publisher, the feedback metrics, because a popular book is often reprinted multiple times. In addition, you should also choose according to your own reading needs and preferences, so that the books that have been carefully selected should not be bought back and dusted.

Writing and reading should not be superficial, but deeply understood

I always feel that I can't write professionally**, so I should read more articles published in famous journals. For example, "Chinese Teaching Reference for Middle Schools" is to read a lot, also said to try to refer to the above lesson examples to try to practice in teaching, and also imitated the above **, write some of their own thoughts and opinions, all ended in failure. The lesson examples are not their own design, and the students have not undergone long-term training, the classroom teaching guides the way of thinking, and the students' reactions cannot keep up.

After reading Professor Liu's book, I realized that ** is the harvest of reading, and ** reading without reading as a foundation is invalid. Even if it is barely written, it must lack theoretical support. "People who read a lot are more like intellectuals, and people who read a lot are more like knowledge workers."

In the same way, a teacher who reads a lot is more like a teacher, and a teacher who reads a lot is more like an orator. Teachers who read books often can read more deeply in the interpretation of texts, make the teaching design more coherent and reasonable, and make the classroom teaching language more interesting.

The first point is that writing is skillful, and it is not necessary to read enough articles to be able to write good articles, and it is also necessary to split the writing logic; The second point is that writing can really become a career direction, and through writing, you can also realize your life ideals. Thirdly, everyone can be a writer, but a good influential writer must have good writing skills and empathy.

To know why it was written. It seems that it has become a practice for many people to write**, write degrees**, and write various experiences and summaries after work. But in the midst of a busy life, we need to be quiet and think:

What was the original intention of writing? A truly valuable, immortal work does not necessarily have flowery words and beautiful sentences, but usually incorporates real feelings and something that can move the reader.

First of all, writing needs inspiration, inspiration does not mean that there is, in addition, the written works must resonate with people, and the story needs to be expressed through language and words to achieve a certain effect.

Recently, I was busy with the start of the doctoral program, and the doctoral supervisor asked me to "stupid birds fly first", and asked me to make good use of the summer vacation time to read.

In the past two days, I have been collecting literature frantically, but I am anxious after reading too much literature. Because the messy information is stuffed in the brain like stool, it leads to constipation, which is very uncomfortable. You have to read and write at the same time to grasp the information in your head.

But I encountered problems with writing, all the way to the doctorate, and I knew that there was a big difference between the writing of the doctorate and the composition written in middle and high school. But I can't say exactly what the difference is. It wasn't until I saw Mr. Liu Junqiang's book "Writing is a Craft" that I suddenly opened my mouth.

The first chapter of this book first explains the difference between ** and composition from the level of thinking. This is very important, so the author put it in the first chapter. If you don't realize the gap between the two genres, then there is no need to read this book.

So in this article, let's talk about what is the gap between ** and composition?

Why? Because Chinese students like flowery rhetoric, and they also like to use analogous sentences.

Hey, you're confused? Isn't that what our high school teachers ask us to do? But how did it become Chinese characteristics? Besides, judging from the professor's tone, this is not a compliment.

Don't rush to hear the answer just yet. In the face of this phenomenon, the author is curious, why did this "Chinese characteristics" come into being? The authors did an interesting experiment for this.

There is an essay called "When Memories Flow Through Auschwitz", the original text is as follows, and you can read it in 3 seconds

The author found two groups of people: one group was made up of students; One group is made up of university teachers. Ask each of these two groups to rate the essay. The first group gave a high score, with an average score; The second group, on the contrary, was almost all negative, with only 6,75 points.

What would you think if I told you that this article was a college entrance examination full score essay?

In fact, in my opinion, this article is beautifully written, but it says almost nothing, the views are unclear, and there are historical errors, and the expression is not accurate enough.

This is the training mode of high school Chinese, so almost the vast majority of students have not been exposed to ** before entering the university, and have only written essays that are not very clear and extremely want to show their talents.

So what are the requirements?

**It is not required to be ornate, only to be clearly expressed. **Require clear views and rigorous argumentation. Writing is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and a good one can take months or even years to polish.

Don't think of writing as a noisy industry, just treat it with a normal heart, in fact, it is just like the plumber repairman we have seen around us, just a craft job, or an ancient craft job.

In the first half of the year, I went to the construction site to learn fire protection and weak electricity, and for various reasons, I finally chose to write this craft. I used to think about writing, but I thought it was too high, I thought it was unattainable, and I enshrined it all the time, but I didn't realize my dream of writing because it went against my wishes. Only treat it with a normal heart, stick to it, and use dim sum in the process of writing, and it will come naturally after a long time.

Although it is treated with a normal heart, but it is also necessary to work hard, the book is naturally to read more, there is no input to the output, reading input and writing output are complementary to each other, without that is not good.

As mentioned above, writing is a handicraft, so you need to practice, even if you are a mason, you have to work with mud and know how to operate procedures. From the beginning of elementary school to the beginning of literacy, to the learning to form words and sentences, to distinguish the paragraphs, structure and the central idea of the article, all in order to be able to write, systematically learn this craft.

In the process of practicing, you can find a master to teach, find books to learn, and find inspiration in your own life. I believe that hard work pays off, and I can succeed if I choose to write.