演講題目：如何讓高中生寫出漂亮作文
講者：郭岱宗教授‧淡江大學英文系副教授
時間：2008年11月24日下午1:00~3:00
地點：本校A1大階梯教室
演講內容：
要寫出漂亮的作文，要從下面四點著手：
一、好句子。
要表達「她好好，所以每個人看到他都會被她深深地吸引」的觀念，與其寫"She is so nice that whoever sees her is attracted by her." 不如 "Her extreme kindness fascinates everyone." 來得精簡有力。
另例：「我睡覺前都喜歡聽古典音樂，因為它的旋律非常優美，我聽著聽著就睡著了。」你會如何表達？
參考句子：Melodious classical music always accompanies me into sleep.
原則：1. One single main idea requires only one sentence.
2. 動詞決定句子是否生動，多用動態動詞，而非靜態動詞；例如避
免用be動詞或make。
3. 主詞非常重要；找到真的主詞。
練習：「天氣漸漸暖和了，數目也漸漸發芽了，看到了這個景象，我就知道春
天的腳步到了。」
(
郭老師的句子：The increasing temperatures and the budding trees breathe out the arrival of the spring. 註：increasing和budding這兩個由動詞的現在分詞使句子生動，並有parallel的效果)
二、文法
文法是活的，不需要背。(郭教授舉了兩個例子說明：時式、假設語氣)
三、文章本身
Thesis statement(s)寫作要點：
1. Interesting (arouse people's interest)
2. Clearly indicating the direction of the whole article
3. Complete (一段說清楚整篇文章的主體)
4. pave for the following paragraphs
原則：1. 不要隨便下筆。先想好之後的body要說明的重點再下筆。
2. 不要用諺語，以避免陳腔濫調。用自己的想法。（諺語可用在文章body中support 所舉的例子，但還是要謹慎）
例：
論誠實
Thesis statement: A good marriage and incomparable interpersonal relationships are secured in genuine honesty. (若要加反證，在同一段這句話之後可加上In contrast, endless lies berry you in endless miseries.)
Body: 第二段寫marriage，第三段寫relationship；各段有自己的topic sentence, main body, 以及各段結尾的view point。
Body中可有proverbs、examples、statistics、甚至charts and figures，以增加說服力。
Conclusion: 回到thesis statement，make a perfect circle，paraphrase the thesis statement。--> The truth of an honest marriage and an honest interpersonal relationship shall set you free and high. (此句應用聖經中的The truth shall set you free。善用名言有加分效果)
另例：論寬恕
Thesis statement: Forgiveness, one of the most beautiful human virtues, frees the spirit and erases hatred.
Body: 2nd paragraph: Forgiveness being a beautiful virtue
3rd paragraph: How forgiveness frees the spirit
4th paragraph: How forgiveness erases hatred
Conclusion: [With forgiveness,] hatred is replaced by love,
and restrictions are replaced by freedom.
More reminders: 1. 能一句說完的，不要用兩句話說。不要囉唆。
2. 想像力
3. 多看好文章 (我問教授她最喜歡看的書和雜誌，
她說：聖經和Time)
4. 多練習
四、字彙
多背些好單字、好片語，例如考前準備20個，用上一個都有不一樣的效果。避免大家都在用的。好的例子：He has left no stones unturned.
It takes two to handle.
They are like beauty and beast.
P.S. While I was keying in this entry, my father called me and told me about the death of my dear Daddy Chen, a best friend of my father's and a respectable gentleman. I wept bitterly after hanging up the phone, not only for the loss of him, but for what I had planned to do but didn't. I had intended to visit him last week but was occupied with work. On Sunday afternoon while at a fruit stand with my mom, not knowing he already passed away, I searched for peaches because Daddy Chen loved juicy peaches. Not finding any, I still thought about when to pay him a visit.
Remembering a sentence from Martin Luther King: "...This 'wait' has always meant 'never'," I just couldn't stop my regretful tears from falling. After quite a while, I went back to my computer, picking up where I left off. Having YouTube playing Liszt's Consolation, one of the piano pieces Daddy Chen loved most, I kept wrting this entry because I knew Daddy Chen would not want me to quit halfway.
(Postscripted on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008 in memory of Daddy Chen, who passed away at 12:46pm, Sun., Nov. 23)
Horowitz playing Liszt Consolation
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=zS5LRRsNYZk
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