I believe that when students write Chinese compositions, they sometimes have questions about low scores. The teacher will say that it is because your writing is not good. At this time, you may be very worried about how to improve your writing skills, because you are already at the stage of Form 5 or Form 6, and writing skills cannot be improved in a short time.
1. Examples and article subtitles are more important
First of all, I want to tell you the good news that the writing style of DSE Chinese composition is not the most important thing. If you are writing an essay, it is actually the examples that are more important and whether the examples have deducted questions that are more important. As for narrative and lyrical writing, its writing requirements are higher than those of argumentative writing, because you always have to write about your own emotions and your own emotional changes, but the most important thing is to pin down the title.
Regarding the selection of materials, you don’t need to write about those twists and turns that no candidate has written about in order to stand out. It is enough to write about volunteer activities, competition performances, and career orientation. Compared with the selection of the material itself, what is actually more important is whether the starting point and transition of the article are reasonable and smooth. In fact, the HKEAA's scoring standards for narrative and lyrical essays are very simple. They require you to finally understand a major truth. Before you understand this truth, you hold an opposite attitude. Only after you experience that incident There will be changes. Many students are said to be off-topic because they fall into a misunderstanding. The first six to seven hundred words of the article are all about explaining the background or showing off the writing style. They put all the good words and sentences that they have memorized. This is putting the cart before the horse. In fact, the focus of writing the article should be on the inspiration you received after the sudden event happened, and what you realized was the sublimation part. Of course, the lyrical part cannot be ignored. We still need to write about the emotional changes. Many students will of course be told that they are off topic if they get the key points wrong.
2. The writing is the icing on the cake
Of course, in addition to asking questions, whether you are writing an essay or a narrative essay, if you have good writing skills on the basis of asking questions, it will be the icing on the cake. The best way to improve your writing skills is definitely to read more and then improve your sense of language and accumulate writing skills. However, if you want to take a shortcut, I suggest you systematically memorize some commonly used Chinese words. In fact, Chinese is the same as English. You can use a systematic method. Go memorize four-character words. For example, in narrative and lyrical writing, you can memorize some four-character words about joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. If you are very happy and happy, you can use words such as overjoyed, elated, overjoyed, ecstatic, etc.
For another example, there must be a turning point in a lyrical text. The protagonist will wonder if he has done something wrong, has a bad attitude, bad behavior, etc. You can also refer to these four-character words, such as: confused, confused, etc. Words such as Ning, upset, unsettled, undecided, etc. The protagonist of the narrative lyric will definitely go through the introspection part and finally realize a big truth, so there is a high chance that these four-character words can be used.
As for the argumentative essay, although it has relatively low requirements on writing style and it is more important to ask questions, the use of four-character words can have a finishing touch. If you give some examples of celebrities, you will eventually point out their outstanding qualities. These can also be modified with four-character combinations such as forgetting to sleep and eat, not seeing the garden, and Wei Bian's three unique skills.
3. Never use idioms randomly
Of course, in the end you have to understand the meaning behind the idiom and look at examples of how to use the idiom. In addition to common character traits, I also have a few versatile phrases for your reference. For example, memorize some four-character words about more and less or accumulation. After giving one or two examples, add this sentence. There are so many such deeds or characters, they can be found everywhere. Therefore, when memorizing words, you should memorize some four-character words that are more cost-effective. Then I would like to remind everyone that whether you are writing an essay or a lyrical narrative, you must stop it in moderation and make sure that you really understand the meaning and usage of the four-character words. Otherwise, if you just use numb words in the article, the examiner will only think that you are showing off your writing skills.
4. Summary
To sum up, the most important thing about DSE Chinese composition is not the writing style, but whether the writing has questions. Furthermore, a shortcut to improve your writing skills is to memorize the four-character words or idioms of Chinese synonyms of DSE. It is also a good method.
Credit to:Melody Tam
