医博英语历年真题摘要写作范文

An approach to successful English writing

Ladies and gentlemen,

First of all, I’d like to extend my sincere congratulations to your success of sitting here as a candidate of Master degree which results from your great efforts of years.

This is the first time that we have met here for my English writing course. It is also a beginning of new experience, a new leaf of your life, of which you may have good reasons to cherish many wonderful wishes and expectations.

It is pleasing that you are no longer to be supposed to learn just for passing some kind of compulsory exam, such as CET Band 6, though all of you will have to write a conventional composition in your finals. You come here mainly for something practical, useful and necessary in your future career, written skills of English communication. You come here to learn more about English writing, to polish what you have commanded and to enhance your current writing proficiency. You may want to be able to write an English medical paper to publish your findings, an English abstract for your Chinese article, or an English report to your foreign colleagues on your recent project. Some of you will sit for the English entrance examination for medical doctoral candidates. I will try to meet these

医博英语历年真题摘要写作范文

different needs with something that I call essential notions and functions （意念功能）of English writing.

The proficiency of English writing is a very broad concept which involves not only many notions （意念） but also countless communicative functions. If we say someone is good at English writing, we actually mean that he is capable of expressing some notions and his English writing skills are just sufficient to perform the needed functions. In this sense, to learn English writing is to learn the skills needed to express one’s specific notions and functions. From the point of view of linguistic communication, to write is to perform many specific communicative tasks of expressing necessary notions and completing necessary functions. It seems that communicative notions and functions are too various and too great in number, but we should know that they are not equally important, useful, essential, practical, or necessary for us. The most essential and frequently used ones are limited in number but enable us to perform the majority of our communicative tasks. What we are going to learn and try to command are essential notions and functions （意念功能）of English writing.

To make a good beginning, you should first know what I am going to do and what you are going to do with this course.

I am not going to conduct my course in a traditional way. I am

医博英语历年真题摘要写作范文

not going to make me speak all the time on the platform and you just sit and listen down there as well as make daydreams. I am going to base my course on my teaching experience and findings of ages, on the theory of task-based communicative approach.

I am no longer a teacher in a traditional sense, one who dominates the classroom because he teaches his students what he knows but they do not know. I am going to be a guide who is just able to help you with what I know but you do not know, or are not good at, to acquire what you need to know.

The first thing you are going to do is to attend my classes. Attendance is compulsory no matter how skillful you are at English writing. If you are a proficient writer, you can make contributions to the course by helping me and your classmates. Class activities are centered round practical communicative tasks which you are supposed to get involved. Class participation is encouraged and so part of the classroom time will be devoted to it.

Next you are going to perform and complete written communicative tasks assigned by me. They will take you lots of time out of class if you want to do a good job. In this way, I will show you how you can really master what you need in your future written communication and develop competence in medical English writing by yourselves.

医博英语历年真题摘要写作范文

Classroom time will be devoted to illustration, explanation, discussion, group work, and students’ participation. Classroom activities will be decided not only by me but also by you. Part of the contents of the course has been prepared by me in advance but part of the contents is going to be decided by you, by what you do and by how you perform the tasks. As a result of this arrangement, different classes will have different tasks or contents.

Assignments must be submitted to a designated e-mail address where they will be recorded and checked. A special exercise-book and computer work are necessary.

The final exam is based on what we have done in class, and the final evaluation is based on attendance, classroom participation, assignment and final exam.

I hope all of you will have a wonderful and fruitful time in the next four months being with me. I hope you will find a successful approach to English writing.

Last, I’d like to ask for your understanding and tolerance for my lack of personal attention, for I am overloaded with 22 periods a week and more than 1000 students to be attended in writing.